 Good evening. I'm Camille Ochoa. I work at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a non-profit organization that protects civil liberties online. Thank you for allowing me to speak this evening in support of a new city ordinance to enable transparency and increase community control over surveillance technology. Technology has the power to improve our lives. It can make our government more accountable and efficient and expose us to new information. But it also can intrude on our privacy and chill our free speech. Every technology used for government surveillance raises a thicket of difficult questions. Should it be adopted at all? What are the benefits and the costs? Will it actually make us safer? If it is adopted, who will be targeted? What are the privacy safeguards? These are questions that should be answered by Oakland City Council before any city department adopts a new surveillance technology. The general public should be heard too. When all concerned stakeholders participate, we make better decisions. That's why EFF respectfully suggests that the Oakland City Council should adopt a new standard operating procedure. It should require the following steps before any city department procures or adopts any new surveillance technology. First, the department should ask the city council for permission and wait for it before proceeding. Second, that department should give the city council an anticipated privacy impact report and a proposed use policy that specifies limits of what the technology will be used. Third, the city council should discuss and decide the issue at a regularly scheduled meeting with notice to the public and an opportunity to comment. Fourth, the city council should decide whether the proposed benefits outweigh the budgetary and constitutional costs. Finally, for any surveillance technology approved by the city council, there should be an annual review process to assess how the technology was used. This approach builds on recent state legislation responding to the absence of meaningful federal oversight of policing. Public safety requires trust between law enforcement and the community served. To ensure that trust, we need a transparent and informed process for deciding whether to adopt new surveillance technologies. Thank you.