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June 28, 2019 by Devin Jones

"As a state, we are one of the most innovative and innovative States in the world," said Mayor Ed Lee, who last week proposed that his department adopt the new policy.

After nearly a year of litigation, the proposal now goes to the City Council for an open discussion, which will take place Monday.

The new policy also sets out a number of other requirements for cities to consider when considering the potential use of a facial recognition technology. It requires that "every person who has been trained to identify a suspect, in their own right’ should have the option of purchasing a license for an automated license plate reader, to record the identification of that person, and to remove the license with a digital fingerprint." The policy states that "a person of reasonable confidence or of good will’ can be required to obtain a license or registration from a law enforcement agency for a face-recognition system," but would not require a "reasonable expectation of privacy."

"The city of San Francisco has been very supportive of it," said Michael F. Gagliano, a senior policy analyst with the law firm Gagliano & Associates. "There are a number of ways the system could work, some of which have been debated and some of which have been completely rejected."

The San Francisco Police Department is one of the most vocal opponents of facial recognition technology, which has been widely cited as a source of significant potential privacy threats in the wake of the San Bernardino terrorist attacks in 2011. In 2014, the city of San Mateo, California, imposed a strict new technology requirement for police to obtain a user's driver's license, and also imposed the city of Oakland's new facial recognition code in February.

While the tech law's requirements for facial recognition will vary by city, San Francisco will likely remain in the process of implementing new technology, according to a source.

The San Francisco Police Department is one of the most vocal opponents of facial recognition technology, which has been widely cited as an source of significant potential privacy threats in the wake of the San Bernardino terrorist attacks in 2011. In 2014, the city of San Francisco, California, imposed a strict new technology requirement for police to obtain a user's driver's license, and also imposed the city of Oakland's new facial recognition code in February. "The city has been very supportive of it," said Michael F. Gagliano, a senior policy analyst with the law firm Gagliano & Associates. "There are a number of ways the system could work, some of