Required actions
- City departments, including the police, may not obtain or use facial recognition technology - Other surveillance technology requires a public policy and Board approval before acquisition
San Francisco Stop Secret Surveillance Ordinance — facial recognition ban
The first ban on government facial recognition in the US, adopted by San Francisco in 2019 and copied by Boston, Portland, Minneapolis and others; the ban survived the 2024 Proposition E rollback of other surveillance limits.
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