A compilation of the Surveillance technology Impact Reports approved by the City Council on February 24, 2020

Cambridge Fire proposes to use the Verathon Corporation's Glidescope Go video

laryngoscope. This is a medical device that facilitates critical medical care by capturing video of the back of the throat of an unconscious person in order to place an endotracheal tube (breathing tube).

A laryngoscope is a medical device, essentially a curved tongue depressor with a light at the end, that lifts the tongue out of the way and allows a paramedic to look through the patient's mouth and see the patient's tracheal opening in order to place a breathing tube in the trachea (also known as intubation).

Patients who require breathing tubes are the most critical patients we see, and usually are not breathing at all. In order to facilitate faster and more accurate breathing tube placement and improve outcomes, video laryngoscopy has been developed, which places a camera at the end of the device and a small video screen attached so the paramedic can see the tracheal opening better.

Glidescope GO records video only. There is no audio or data recording.

• Documenting and improving performance of City employees.

The purpose of the technology is to improve critical health care processes and outcomes in order to provide the best available medical care to the residents and visitors of the City of Cambridge.

This technology will be on the CFD's Paramedic units, and will also be used in training with manikins. The video laryngoscopes will be deployed in or around May 2020.

The privacy impact will be zero. There are no patient identifiers associated with the video in the instrument. If the video is uploaded into a patient’s chart or other data storage, it will be considered protected health information and access will be severely limited in accordance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). If the video is used in case review or training, there will be no patient identifiers associated with it.

The initial costs will be $24,784.00, which will be funded by a federal grant. This includes 120 disposable blades. Once the initial supply of blades is exhausted, replacement blades will be purchased by CFD at a cost of $40-$52 each, depending on the style of blade. Training and Quality Improvement costs are impossible to determine, because they will be embedded within our standard training and quality processes.

1. SURVEILLANCE TECHNOLOGY IMPACT REPORT

ICTS

Securly for Chromebooks Web Filter

Securly for Chromebooks is employed as a web filter only on all CPS Chromebooks. The web filter will block sites that are considered potentially unsafe or harmful and logs browser activity whether in school or off campus. The web browser log collects web site addresses that were allowed and those that were blocked.

• Enforcing obligations to the City

On Student Issued Chromebooks

Minimal privacy impact. The web filter on the school issued Chromebooks is the same whether used in school or not. All students and parents are advised through Chromebook user agreements that the web filter will be employed both in school and off campus.

N/A

2. SURVEILLANCE TECHNOLOGY IMPACT REPORT

Transportation CalAmp GPS devices installed on each School Bus.

GPS Units are attached to the school buses to monitor and report back the physical location of school buses.

• Operating vehicles for City business • Communicating among City employees, with citizens, or with third parties

On each school bus.

Minimal privacy impact. Without knowing what students are doing on each bus the fact that the bus location is collected should have no impact on students’ privacy.

a. Ongoing Maintenance = $1579/year b. Personnel = N/A c. Source of Funds = School General Fund

3. SURVEILLANCE TECHNOLOGY IMPACT REPORT

Transportation Department

Edulog Transportation System

The Edulog Transportation system is used by the CPS Transportation Department to manage the bus routes and ridership. All information about what buses students ride as well as the buses locations are stored and managed within this system.

• Providing information to emergency personnel • Operating vehicles for City business • Analyzing and managing service delivery • Communicating among City employees, with citizens, or with third parties

Hosted in the cloud and available at discrete workstations and Eastern Bus.

Minimal privacy impact. Actual ridership – meaning whether a student is actually on a bus is not obtained. All that is maintained is student to bus assignment, routes, and actual geo-location of the buses.

a. Ongoing Maintenance = $19,660/Year b. Personnel = N/A

c. Source of Funds = School General Fund

December 9, 2019 Surveillance Technology Impact Report – No. 12

Crime Analysis (and CID)

BRIC Omega Dashboard

• Intel portal for Boston Regional Intel CTR

• Crime Analysis and Criminal Investigation Division

• This technology has a minimal impact as it analyzes and maps incident data from the surrounding communities. Allows regional approach to analyze whether crimes are interconnected by geography, type, or method.

December 9, 2019 Surveillance Technology Impact Report – No. 13

Crime Analysis (and CID)

Coplink

• Nespin portal for exchange of criminal justice incident reports.

• Crime Analysis and Criminal Investigation Division.

• This technology has a minimal impact as it combines and provides statewide access to incident data from the surrounding communities. In addition to analyzing crime data and assisting in criminal investigations, NESPIN is required for the Department to accurately fulfill its requirements pertaining to the issuance of License to Carry Firearms (LTC).

• Not available.

December 9, 2019 Surveillance Technology Impact Report – No. 16

Crime Analysis

CLEAR

• Public Records search engine

• Crime Analysis and Criminal Investigation Division

• This technology has a minimal impact since it is composed of public records.

• 5 licenses furnished to CPD by Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI) at no cost to agency.Not available

December 9, 2019 Surveillance Technology Impact Report – No. 17

Crime Analysis and Focussed Deterrence Unit

Focused Deterrence Database

• Algorithm to analyze RMS data

• Crime Analysis and Focussed Deterrence Unit

• This technology has a minimal impact as it analyzes existing incident reports from the Department’s Records Management System. The Department is required by state and federal law, as well as court procedural rules to document a variety of police encounters, whether for criminal, civil or administrative matters. The algorithm utilizes factors such as “role” played and “when” (allowing for a decaying weighted analysis). Additionally, crimes are weighted in strict accordance with Massachusetts Sentencing Guidelines.

December 9, 2019 Surveillance Technology Impact Report – No. 20

Digital Intelligence Workstation

• Desktop computer hardware

December 9, 2019 Surveillance Technology Impact Report – No. 21

Dell Laptop BCERT

• Hardware for computer evidence recovery

December 9, 2019 Surveillance Technology Impact Report – No. 22

Magnet Forensics - Axiom