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POR 2016 #310 · Agenda item attachment · Nov 21 2016
That the City Manager is requested to forward the Surveillance Ordinance language to the City Solicitor in order for this language to be vetted and transcribed in such a way that will allow it to be ultimately referred to the Ordinance Committee for consideration at a future hearing
An Act To Promote Transparency and Protect Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
With Respect to Surveillance Technology
Section 1: For the purposes of this Act:
(A) “Discriminatory” shall mean (1) disparate treatment of any individual(s) because of any real
or perceived traits, characteristics, or status as to which discrimination is prohibited under the
Constitution or any law of the United States, the constitution or any law of the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, or the Charter or [A1]any law of the City of Cambridge[A2],
or because of their association with such individual(s), or (2) disparate impact on any such
individual(s) having traits, characteristics, or status as described in subsection (1).
(B) “Disparate impact” shall mean an adverse effect that is disproportionately experienced by
individual(s) having any traits, characteristics, or status as to which discrimination is
prohibited under the Constitution or any law of the United States, the constitution or any law
of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts[A3], or the Charte or any law of the City of
Cambridge[A4] than by similarly situated individual(s) not having such traits, characteristics,
or status.
(C) “Municipal entity” shall mean any municipal government, agency, department, bureau,
division, or unit of this City.
(D) “Surveillance data” shall mean any electronic data collected, captured, recorded, retained,
processed, intercepted, analyzed, or shared by surveillance technology.
(E) “Surveillance technology” shall mean any electronic surveillance device, hardware, or
software that is capable of collecting, capturing, recording, retaining, processing,
intercepting, analyzing, monitoring, or sharing audio, visual, digital, location, thermal,
biometric, or similar information or communications specifically associated with, or capable
of being associated with, any specific individual or group; or any system, device, or vehicle
that is equipped with an electronic surveillance device, hardware, or software.
(1) “Surveillance technology” includes, but is not limited to: (a) international mobile
subscriber identity (IMSI) catchers and other cell site simulators; (b) automatic license
plate readers; (c) electronic toll readers; (d) closed-circuit television cameras; (e)
biometric surveillance technology, including facial, voice, iris, and gait-recognition
software and databases; (f) mobile DNA capture technology; (g) gunshot detection and
location hardware and services; (h) x-ray vans; (i) video and audio monitoring and/or
recording technology, such as surveillance cameras and wearable body cameras; (j)
surveillance enabled or capable lightbulbs or light fixtures; (k) tools, including software
and hardware, used to gain unauthorized access to a computer, computer service, or
computer network; (l) social media monitoring software; (m) through-the-wall radar or
similar imaging technology, (n) passive scanners of radio networks, (o) long-range
Bluetooth and other wireless-scanning devices, (p) radio-frequency I.D. (RFID) scanners,
and (q) software designed to integrate or analyze data from Surveillance Technology,
including surveillance target tracking and predictive policing software. The enumeration
of surveillance technology examples in this subsection shall not be interpreted as an
endorsement or approval of their use by any municipal entity.
(2) “Surveillance technology” does not include the following devices or hardware, unless
they have been equipped with, or are modified to become or include, a surveillance
technology as defined in Section 1(E): (a) routine office hardware, such as televisions,
computers, and printers, that is in widespread public use and will not be used for any
surveillance or surveillance-related functions; (b) Parking Ticket Devices (PTDs); (c)
manually-operated, non-wearable, handheld digital cameras, audio recorders, and video
recorders that are not designed to be used surreptitiously and whose functionality is
limited to manually capturing and manually downloading video and/or audio recordings;
(d) surveillance devices that cannot record or transmit audio or video or be remotely
accessed, such as image stabilizing binoculars or night vision goggles; (e) municipal
agency databases that do not and will not contain any data or other information collected,
captured, recorded, retained, processed, intercepted, or analyzed by surveillance
technology; and (f) manually-operated technological devices that are used primarily for
internal municipal entity communications and are not designed to surreptitiously collect
surveillance data, such as radios and email systems.
(F) “Viewpoint-based” shall mean targeted at any community or group or its members because
of their exercise of rights protected under the First Amendment of the United States
Constitution.
Section 2.
(A) A municipal entity must obtain City Council approval, subsequent to a mandatory, properly-
noticed, germane, public City Council hearing at which the public is afforded a fair and
adequate opportunity to provide online, written and oral testimony, prior to engaging in any
of the following:
(1) Seeking funds for new surveillance technology, including but not limited to applying for
a grant, or soliciting or accepting state or federal funds or in-kind or other donations;
(2) Acquiring or borrowing new surveillance technology, whether or not that acquisition is
made through the exchange of monies or other consideration;
(3) Using new or existing surveillance technology for a purpose or in a manner not
previously approved by the City Council in accordance with this Act; or
(4) Soliciting proposals for or entering into an agreement with any other person or entity to
acquire, share or otherwise use surveillance technology or surveillance data.
(B) As a part of the process of seeking City Council approval, pursuant to Section 2(A), to fund,
acquire, or use surveillance technology or to enter into an agreement concerning such
funding, acquisition, or use, a municipal entity shall submit to the City Council a
Surveillance Impact Report and Surveillance Use Policy concerning the technology at issue.
(1) Upon submitting a Surveillance Impact Report and Surveillance Use Policy to the City
Council pursuant to Section 2(B), the municipal agency shall make both documents
available to the public on its public website.
(2) Within ten (10) days of receiving a surveillance technology approval request pursuant to
Section 2(A), the City Council shall make the related Surveillance Impact Report and
Surveillance Use Policy publicly available, in print and on its public website.
(3) Within twenty-one (21) days of submitting a Surveillance Impact Report and
Surveillance Use Policy pursuant to Section 2(B), the municipal agency shall hold one or
more well-publicized and conveniently located community engagement meetings at
which the general public is invited to discuss and ask questions regarding the surveillance
technology approval request the municipal entity submitted to the City Council.
(4) The public City Council hearing required pursuant to Section 2(A) may not be held until
forty-five (45) days after the Surveillance Impact Report and Surveillance Use Policy are
submitted pursuant to Section 2(B).
(5) The City Council, or its appointed designee, shall continue to make the Surveillance
Impact Report and Surveillance Use Policy, and updated versions thereof, available to the
public online as long as the municipal entity continues to utilize the surveillance
technology in accordance with a surveillance technology approval request submitted
pursuant to Section 2(A).
(C) No use of surveillance technology by a municipal entity pursuant to Section 2(A) shall be
permitted without the City Council’s express approval of the related Surveillance Impact
Report and Surveillance Use Policy submitted by the municipal entity pursuant to Section
2(B).
(D) Prior to approving or rejecting a Surveillance Impact Report or Surveillance Use Policy, the
City Council may request revisions be made by the submitting municipal entity. Revisions
should be requested where any inadequacies are perceived to exist within a Surveillance Use
Policy or Surveillance Impact Report, especially with respect to the protection of civil rights
and civil liberties and the avoidance of discriminatory and viewpoint-based uses,
deployments, and impacts.
(1) Any requested revisions to a Surveillance Impact Report or Surveillance Use Policy made
by a member, employee, or committee of the City Council, and the responses thereto,
shall be publicly released by the City Council, in print and on its public website, at least
thirty (30) days prior to any City Council vote to approve or reject a request made by a
municipal entity pursuant to Section 2(A).
(2) In the event revisions are made to the originally submitted Surveillance Impact Report or
Surveillance Use Policy, prior to voting to approve or reject the revised Surveillance
Impact Report or Surveillance Use Policy, the City Council shall hold another properly-
noticed, germane, public City Council hearing at which the public is afforded a fair and
adequate opportunity to provide written and oral testimony on the revised Surveillance
Impact Report and/or Surveillance Use Policy. A copy of the revised Surveillance
Impact Report and/or Surveillance Use Policy shall be publicly released by the City
Council, in print and on its public website, at least thirty (30) days prior to such a public
hearing.
(E) A Surveillance Impact Report submitted pursuant to Section 2(B) shall be a publicly-
released, legally enforceable written report that includes, at a minimum, the following:
(1) Information describing the surveillance technology and how it works, including product
descriptions from manufacturers;
(2) Information on the proposed purpose(s) for the surveillance technology;
(3) If the surveillance technology will not be uniformly deployed or targeted throughout the
city:
(a)
What factors will be used to determine where the technology is deployed or
targeted; and
(b)
Based upon those factors enumerated pursuant to Section 2(E)(3)(a), what
geographical location(s) are anticipated to receive a disproportionally high level
of deployment or targeting;
(4) The fiscal impact of the surveillance technology, including but not limited to:
(a)
Initial acquisition costs;
(b)
Ongoing operational costs such as personnel, legal compliance, use auditing, data
retention and security costs;
(c)
Any cost savings that would be achieved through the use of the technology; and
(d)
Any current or potential sources of funding; and
(5) An assessment identifying with specificity:
(a)
Any potential impacts the surveillance technology, if deployed, might have on
civil liberties and civil rights, including but not limited to:
(i) Potential disparate or adverse impacts on any communities or groups if the
surveillance technology was used or deployed, intentionally or inadvertently,
in a discriminatory manner;
(ii) Potential disparate or adverse impacts on any communities or groups if the
surveillance technology was used or deployed, intentionally or inadvertently,
in a viewpoint-based manner;
(iii)Potential disparate or adverse impacts on any communities or groups if the
surveillance technology is operated using intentionally or inadvertently biased
algorithms;
(iv) Potential adverse impacts on privacy and anonymity rights;
(v) Other potential adverse impacts on the civil rights and civil liberties
guaranteed by the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United
States Constitution;[A5] and
(b)
What specific, affirmative measures will be implemented to safeguard the public
from each of the potential disparate and adverse impacts identified pursuant to
Section 2(E)(5)(a).
(6) A disclaimer that the Surveillance Impact Report shall be considered a draft proposal
until such time as it is approved, with or without modifications, pursuant to a vote of the
City Council.
(F) A Surveillance Use Policy submitted pursuant to Section 2(B) shall be a publicly-released,
legally enforceable written policy governing the municipal entity’s use of the surveillance
technology that, at a minimum, includes and addresses the following:
(1) Purpose: What specific purpose(s) that the surveillance technology is intended to
advance.
(2) Authorized Use: What specific surveillance technology use(s) is authorization being
sought for, and:
(a)
Whether the surveillance technology will be operated continuously or used only
under specific circumstances;
(b)
Whether the surveillance technology will be installed permanently or temporarily;
(c)
Whether the surveillance technology will be uniformly deployed or targeted
throughout the city, and, if not, what factors will be used to determine where the
technology is deployed or targeted;
(d)
What rules will govern, and what processes will be required prior to each use of
the surveillance technology, including but not limited to:
(i) For each authorized use enumerated pursuant to Section 2(F)(2):
a. What existing legal standard must be met before the technology is used,
or, where such a standard does not currently exist, what is the proposed
standard to be followed;
b. Whether a judicial warrant is required; and
c. What information must be included in any warrant or court authorization
granting permission to use the device;
(e)
What potential capabilities and uses of the surveillance technology will be
prohibited, such as the warrantless surveillance of public events and gatherings;
(f)
The extent to which, and how the surveillance technology will be used to monitor
persons in real time, as data is being captured;
(g)
Whether the surveillance technology will be used to investigate (i) violent crimes,
(ii) non-violent crimes, (iii) felonies, (iv) misdemeanors, and (v) other legal or
code violations, infractions not classified as felonies or misdemeanors, unlawful
activity, activities or patterns considered to be indicators of potential future
involvement in criminal activity, or perceived or actual gang or other group
affiliations; and
(h)
The extent to which, how, and under what circumstances retained surveillance
data that was collected, captured, recorded, or intercepted by the surveillance
technology will be analyzed or reviewed.
(3) Data Collection:
(a)
What types of surveillance data are capable of being collected, captured, recorded,
intercepted, or retained by the surveillance technology.
(b)
What surveillance data may be inadvertently collected during the authorized uses
of the surveillance technology, and what measures will be taken to minimize the
inadvertent collection of data; and
(c)
How, consistent with Section 2(F)(7)(f), inadvertently collected data identified in
Section 2(F)(3)(b) will be expeditiously identified and deleted.
(4) Database Reliance: Where applicable, what databases the technology will rely upon to
make subject identifications.
(5) Data Access:
(a)
Under what circumstances an individual will be allowed to request access to
surveillance data, who will be responsible for authorizing access to the
surveillance data, what rules and processes must be followed prior to accessing or
interacting with the surveillance data, and what the acceptable grounds are for
requesting access to the surveillance data;
(b)
What type of viewer’s log or other comparable method will be used to track
viewings of any surveillance data and what information it will track;
(c)
A description of what categories of personnel will have the authority to obtain
copies of the surveillance data; and
(d)
What procedures will be put in place to prevent the unauthorized distribution of
the copied surveillance data.
(6) Data Protection: What safeguards will be used to protect surveillance data from
unauthorized access, including encryption and access control mechanisms.
(7) Data Retention: What rules and procedures will govern the retention of surveillance data,
including those governing:
(a)
For what time period, if any, surveillance data will be retained. Such information
shall include a statement as to why the designated retention period is appropriate
in light of the purpose(s) enumerated in the Surveillance Use Policy;
(b)
What specific conditions must be met to retain surveillance data beyond the
retention period stated in Section 2(F)(7)(a);
(c)
By what process surveillance data will be regularly deleted after the retention
period stated in Section 2(F)(7)(a) elapses and what auditing procedures will be
implemented to ensure data is not improperly retained beyond the retention
period;
(d)
What methods will be used to store surveillance data, including how will the
surveillance data is to be labeled or indexed;
(e)
What methods will be used to identify surveillance data that has been improperly
collected and/or retained, and how that data, including any copies thereof, will be
expeditiously destroyed once it is identified;
(f)
What process will be put into place so individuals who claim surveillance data
pertaining to them has been improperly collected and/or retained can petition to
have their claims reviewed and how improperly collected or retained surveillance
data, including any copies thereof, will be expeditiously destroyed once it is
identified;
(g)
What technological system will be used to store the surveillance data, and who
will maintain custody and control over the system and its surveillance data; and
(h)
What unit or individuals will be responsible for ensuring compliance with Section
2(F)(7), and when and how compliance audits will be conducted.
(8) Public Access: How surveillance data will be accessible to members of the public, how
the municipal entity interprets the applicability of, and intends to comply with all local
applicable public records laws with respect to surveillance data, and what steps will be
taken to protect individual privacy.
(9) Target/Defendant Access: How, to what extent, and when surveillance data, in
accordance with applicable law, will be accessible to targets of criminal or civil
investigations, criminal or civil defendants, and their attorneys.
(10)
Surveillance Data Sharing: If a municipal entity intends to share access to
surveillance technology or surveillance data with any other governmental agencies,
departments, bureaus, divisions, or units, it shall detail:
(a)
How it will require that the collection, retention, and storage of surveillance data
be conducted in compliance with the principles set forth in 28 C.F.R. Part 23,
including by not limited to 28 C.F.R. Part 23.20(a), which states that a
government entity operating a surveillance program “shall collect and maintain
criminal intelligence information concerning an individual only if there is
reasonable suspicion that the individual is involved in criminal conduct or activity
and the information is relevant to that criminal conduct or activity.”
(b)
Which governmental agencies, departments, bureaus, divisions, or units will be
approved for (i) surveillance technology sharing, and for (ii) surveillance data
sharing;
(c)
How such sharing is required for the stated purpose and use of the surveillance
technology;
(d)
How it will ensure any entity sharing access to the surveillance technology or
surveillance data complies with the applicable Surveillance Use Policy and does
not further disclose the surveillance data to unauthorized persons and entities; and
(e)
What processes will be used to seek approval of future surveillance technology or
surveillance data sharing agreements from the municipal entity and City Council.
(11)
Demands for Access to Surveillance Data: What legal standard must be met by
government entities or third parties seeking or demanding access to surveillance data.
(12)
Training: What training, including training materials, will be required for any
individual authorized to use the surveillance technology or to access surveillance data.
(13)
Maintenance: How the security and integrity of the surveillance technology will
be maintained and how the municipal entity or lead agent will present any substantive
changes in the surveillance technology’s functionality to the City Council for approval.
(14)
Auditing and Oversight: What mechanisms will be implemented to ensure the
Surveillance Use Policy is followed, including what internal personnel will be assigned to
ensure compliance with the policy, what independent persons or entities will be given
oversight authority, and what legally enforceable sanctions will be put in place for
violations of the policy.
(15)
Complaints: What procedures will be put in place by which members of the
public can register complaints or concerns, or submit questions about the deployment or
use of a specific surveillance technology, and what internal personnel will be assigned to
receive, register, track, and respond to such communications.
(16)
The Surveillance Use Policy shall include a disclaimer that the Surveillance Use
Policy shall be considered a draft proposal until such time as it is approved, with or
without modifications, pursuant to a vote of the City Council.
Section 3. No later than one hundred twenty (120) days following the effective date of this Act,
any municipal entity seeking to continue the use of any surveillance technology that was in use
prior to the effective date of this Act must commence a City Council approval process in
accordance with Section 2(A)(3). If the City Council has not approved the continuing use of the
surveillance technology, including the Surveillance Impact Report and Surveillance Use Policy
re submitted pursuant to Section 2(B), within one hundred eighty (180) days of their submission
to the City Council, the municipal entity shall cease its use of the surveillance technology until
such time as City Council approval is obtained in accordance with this Act.
Section 4. If more than one municipal entity will have access to the surveillance technology or
surveillance data, a lead municipal entity shall be identified. The lead municipal entity shall be
responsible for maintaining the surveillance technology and ensuring compliance with all related
laws, regulations and protocols. If the lead municipal entity intends to delegate any related
responsibilities to other governmental agencies, departments, bureaus, divisions, units, or
personnel, these responsibilities and associated entities and/or personnel shall be clearly
identified.
Section 5. The City Council shall only approve a request to fund, acquire, or use a surveillance
technology if it determines the benefits of the surveillance technology outweigh its costs, that the
proposal will safeguard civil liberties and civil rights, and that the uses and deployments of the
surveillance technology will not be based upon discriminatory or viewpoint-based factors or
have a disparate impact on any community or group. To assist the public in participating in such
an analysis, all approved Surveillance Impacts Reports and Surveillance Use Policies shall be
made available to the public, at a designated page on the relevant municipal entity’s public
website, for as long as the related surveillance technology remains in use. An approval for the
funding, acquisition and/or use of a surveillance technology by the City Council, where the risk
of potential adverse impacts on civil rights or civil liberties has been identified in the
Surveillance Impact Report pursuant to Section 2(D)(5)(a), shall not be interpreted as an
acquiescence to such impacts, but rather as an acknowledgement that a risk of such impacts
exists and must be proactively avoided.
Section 6.
(A) A municipal entity that obtains approval for the use of surveillance technology must submit
to the City Council, and make available on its public website, an Annual Surveillance Report
for each specific surveillance technology used by the municipal entity within twelve (12)
months of City Council approval, and annually thereafter on or before March 15. The
Annual Surveillance Report shall, at a minimum, include the following information for the
previous calendar year:
(1) A summary of how the surveillance technology was used;
(2) Whether and how often collected surveillance data was shared with any external persons
or entities, the name(s) of any recipient person or entity, the type(s) of data disclosed,
under what legal standard(s) the information was disclosed, and the justification for the
disclosure(s);
(3) Where applicable, a breakdown of where the surveillance technology was deployed
geographically, by individual census tract as defined in the relevant year by the United
States Census Bureau. For each census tract, the municipal entity shall report how many
individual days the surveillance technology was deployed and what percentage of those
daily-reported deployments were subject to (A) a warrant, and (B) a non-warrant form of
court authorization;
(4) Where applicable, a breakdown of how many times the surveillance technology was used
to investigate potential or actual (A) violent crimes, (B) non-violent crimes, (C) felonies,
(D) misdemeanors, and (E) other legal or code violations, infractions not classified as
felonies or misdemeanors, unlawful activity, activities or patterns considered to be
indicators of potential future involvement in criminal activity, or perceived or actual gang
or other group affiliations;
(5) Where applicable, and with the greatest precision that is reasonably practicable, the
amount of time the surveillance technology was used to monitor Internet activity,
including but not limited to social media accounts, the number of people affected, and
what percentage of the reported monitoring was subject to (A) a warrant, and (B) a non-
warrant form of court authorization;
(6) Where applicable, a breakdown of what the surveillance technology was installed upon,
including but not limited to on what vehicles or structures it was placed;
(7) Where applicable, a breakdown of what hardware surveillance technology software was
installed upon;
(8) Where applicable, a breakdown of what databases the surveillance technology was
applied to, including the frequency thereof;
(9) A summary of complaints or concerns that were received about the surveillance
technology;
(10)
The results of any internal audits, any information about violations of the
Surveillance Use Policy, and any actions taken in response;
(11)
An analysis of any discriminatory, disparate, and other adverse impacts the use of
the technology may have had on the public’s civil rights and civil liberties, including but
not limited to those guaranteed by the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendment to the
United States Constitution;[A6]
(12)
Statistics and information about public records act requests, including response
rates; and
(13)
Total annual costs for the surveillance technology, including personnel and other
ongoing costs, and what source of funding will fund the technology in the coming year.
(B) Within thirty (30) days of submitting an Annual Surveillance Report pursuant to Section
6(B), the municipal agency shall hold one or more well-publicized and conveniently located
community engagement meetings at which the general public is invited to discuss and ask
questions regarding the Annual Surveillance Report and the municipal agency’s use of
surveillance technologies.
(C) Based upon information provided in the Annual Surveillance Report, the City Council shall
determine whether the benefits of the surveillance technology outweigh its costs and whether
the public’s civil liberties and civil rights have been adequately protected and safeguarded. If
the benefits do not outweigh the costs or civil rights and civil liberties have not been
adequately protected and safeguarded, the City Council shall direct the use of the
surveillance technology cease or shall require modifications to the Surveillance Use Policy
that will resolve the observed failures.
Section 7. Not later than April 15 of each year, the City Council or its appointed designee shall
release a public report, in print and on its public website, containing the following information
for the proceeding calendar year:
(A) The number of requests for approval submitted to the City Council under this Act for the
funding, acquisition, or new use of surveillance technology;
(B) The number of times the City Council approved requests submitted under this Act for the
funding, acquisition, or new use of surveillance technology;
(C) The number of times the City Council rejected requests submitted under this Act for the
funding, acquisition, or new use of surveillance technology;
(D) The number of times the City Council requested modifications be made to Surveillance
Impact Reports and Surveillance Use Policies before approving the funding, acquisition, or
new use of surveillance technology; and
(E) All Annual Surveillance Reports submitted pursuant to Section 6. Printed copies of the
public report may contain pinpoint references to online locations where the Annual
Surveillance Reports are located, in lieu of reprinting the full reports.
Section 8.
(A) Any violation of this Act, including but not limited to funding, acquiring, or utilizing
surveillance technology that has not been approved pursuant to this Act or utilizing
surveillance technology in a manner or for a purpose that has not been approved pursuant to
this Act, constitutes an injury and any person may institute proceedings for injunctive relief,
declaratory relief, writ of mandate, or evidence suppression in any court of competent
jurisdiction to enforce this Act.
(B) A court shall award costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees to the plaintiff who is the prevailing
party in an action brought to enforce this Act.
(C) Municipal employees or agents, except in response to a declared municipal, state, or federal
state of emergency, shall not use any surveillance technology except in a manner consistent
with policies approved pursuant to the terms of this Act, and may in no circumstances utilize
surveillance technology in a manner which is discriminatory, viewpoint-based, or violates the
City Charter[A7], State Constitution, or United States Constitution. Any municipal employee
who violates the provisions of this Act, or any implementing rule or regulation, may be
subject to disciplinary proceedings and punishment. For municipal employees who are
represented under the terms of a collective bargaining agreement, this Act prevails except
where it conflicts with the collective bargaining agreement, any memorandum of agreement
or understanding signed pursuant to the collective bargaining agreement, or any recognized
and established practice relative to the members of the bargaining unit.
(D) Whistleblower protections.
(1) No municipal entity or anyone acting on behalf of a municipal entity may take or fail to
take, or threaten to take or fail to take, a personnel action with respect to any employee or
applicant for employment, including but not limited to discriminating with respect to
compensation, terms, conditions, access to information, restrictions on due process rights,
privileges of employment, or civil or criminal liability, because:
(a)
The employee or applicant was perceived to, about to, or assisted in any lawful
disclosure of information concerning the funding, acquisition, or use of a
surveillance technology or surveillance data to any relevant municipal agency,
municipal law enforcement, prosecutorial, or investigatory office, or City Council
Member, based upon a good faith belief that the disclosure evidenced a violation
of this Act; or
(b)
The employee or applicant was perceived to, about to, or assisted or participated
in any proceeding or action to carry out the purposes of this Act.
(2) It shall be grounds for disciplinary action for a municipal employee or anyone else acting
on behalf of a municipal entity to retaliate against an individual who makes a good-faith
complaint that there has been a failure to comply with any part of this Act.
(3) Any employee or applicant who is injured by a violation of Section 8(D)(1) may institute
a proceeding for monetary damages and injunctive relief in any court of competent
jurisdiction.
(E) In addition, any person who:
(1) Knowingly violates this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and may be
punished by a fine not exceeding $2,500 per violation, imprisonment of not more than six
months, or both.
(2) Recklessly violates this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and may be
punished by a fine not exceeding $1,000 per violation.
Section 9. It shall be unlawful for the city or any municipal entity to enter into any contract or
other agreement that conflicts with the provisions of this Act, and any conflicting provisions in
such contracts or agreements, including but not limited to non-disclosure agreements, shall be
deemed void and legally unenforceable. Conflicting provisions in contracts or agreements
signed prior to the enactment of this Act shall be deemed void and legally unenforceable to the
extent permitted by law. This section shall not apply to collective bargaining agreements and
related memorandums of agreement or understanding that pre-date this Act.
Section 10. It shall be unlawful for the city or any municipal entity to enter into any contract or
other agreement that facilitates the receipt of surveillance data from, or provision of surveillance
data to any non-governmental entity in exchange for any monetary or any other form of
consideration from any source, including the assessment of any additional fees, interest, or
surcharges on unpaid fines or debts. Any contracts or agreements signed prior to the enactment
of this Act that violate this section shall be terminated as soon as is legally permissible.
Section 11. The provisions in this Act are severable. If any part of provision of this Act, or the
application of this Act to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder of this Act,
including the application of such part or provisions to other persons or circumstances, shall not
be affected by such holding and shall continue to have force and effect.
Section 12. This Act shall take effect on [DATE].