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Technology and Privacy Advisory Task Force
**POST-MEETING AGENDA**
Date:Monday, August 22, 2022
Time:6:00 p.m.
Location:Council Chambers, 276 Fourth Avenue, Chula Vista, CA
Meeting Agenda
Pages
1.CALL TO ORDER
2.ROLL CALL
3.PUBLIC COMMENTS 2
Any individual may address the task force on any matter within the subject area
of the task force. Speakers will have a maximum of three minutes to provide
their comments. A maximum of 20 minutes will be provided for public comment
at this time. Speakers will be called in the order in which their requests to speak
are received. If, after 20 minutes, there are still individuals in the queue to
speak, they will be provided an opportunity to speak after the work session has
concluded.
4.WORK SESSION
4.1 Work Session #4 3
Task force members will continue discussion of potential policy
recommendations.
5.ADDITIONAL PUBLIC COMMENTS
Any individual may address the task force on any matter within the subject area
of the task force, including on the Work Session discussion. Speakers will have
a maximum of three minutes to provide their comments.
6.STAFF COMMENTS
7.TASK FORCE MEMBER COMMENTS
8.ADJOURNMENT
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Jeremy Ogul
From:
Sent:Monday, August 15, 2022 7:21 PM
To:privacytaskforce@chulavistaca.gov
Subject:Recommendations
Dear Members of the Chula Vista Privacy Advisory Task Force,
As a Chula Vista resident, I would like to make some recommendations that can be part of this discussion.
1. Accountability for Breached Data
I would recommend that the task force come up with a fair punishment when a breach occurs. Usually, the punishment
for allowing a breach is a light slap on the wrist. More often than not, there is none.
"We will never have true data security until we start holding companies/governments and their executives/leaders
legally and financially accountable for the security of any kind of consumer data they possess.”
Basically, we need to hold the vendors and city leaders financially accountable.
2. Children Data
I would like to recommend that ALL data be removed after captured.
3. Right of Citizen’s to OPT-OUT
Recommend that each Chula Vista resident have the option to request to review their data and request to have the city
erase/delete all data.
Roman Covarrubias
Warning:
External
Email
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Jeremy Ogul
From:Jeremy Ogul
Sent:Thursday, August 18, 2022 12:38 PM
To:Privacy Task Force
Cc:Adrianna Hernandez; Dennis Gakunga
Subject:Task force - summary of policy recommendations - draft
Attachments:Summary of Policy Recommendations - DRAFT 2022-08-18.docx
Good afternoon task force members,
Attached is a single Word document that summarizes the policy recommendations that have been developed by this
task force so far. This represents my best effort to incorporate and summarize the recommendations from your
subcommittees as well as the additional recommendations and comments that came up during your work session on
Aug. 15.
If you feel that a recommendation is missing or does not accurately represent was discussed, please let me know and I
can update this document before Monday. My purpose in providing this document is only to reflect back what you have
already discussed in a cohesive way that is easier to read and understand.
I propose that for your work session on Monday, Aug. 22, we start the discussion by using the Gradients of Agreement
as a “temperature check” to measure where each of you stands on each of the 31 items in this list. Based on the
discussions so far, I have a feeling there is already a high level of agreement on most of these items. The exercise will
help us identify which items have the most disagreement, so we can then focus the remaining discussion time on finding
the compromises or modifications that lead to greater levels of agreement on those items.
After our meeting on Monday, Aug. 22, I will update/expand this document with the results of the discussion from that
work session. We then plan to distribute this draft document widely – posting it on the task force website, emailing it to
everyone who has expressed an interest in this issue, and circulating it with City staff. We will gather all the feedback we
receive between Aug. 25 and Sept. 8 and provide it to you so you can use it to further evolve your policy
recommendations at the Sept. 12 and Sept. 26 meetings.
Between now and our next meeting on Monday, Aug. 22, please read through the document and start thinking about
where you agree and where you might have some reservations so that on Monday night we can get a sense of where
everyone stands on each item.
- Jeremy
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Chula Vista Technology and Privacy Advisory Task Force
Summary of Policy Recommendations
DRAFT VERSION – August 18, 2022
Note: To facilitate discussion and review, the policy recommendations are numbered in this
document. There is no particular order or significance to the numbering scheme in this draft.
Privacy Advisory Board
1. The City should establish a Privacy Advisory Board responsible for carrying out a broad
range of advisory duties.
a. The Board’s duties are described throughout this document, including:
i. Holding regular meetings that are open to the public, including
opportunities for public comment in English and other languages.
ii. Reviewing Use Policies for privacy-impacting technologies and making
recommendations on changes
iii. Reviewing data sharing agreements.
iv. Reviewing new technology-related contracts.
2. The Privacy Advisory Board should have nine members, at least two-thirds of whom are
Chula Vista residents.
a. Chula Vista residents should comprise a super-majority of Board members
because residents experience the impacts of City decisions on privacy and
technology to a much greater degree than non-residents do.
b. The purpose of allowing non-residents to serve on the Board is to recognize that
non-residents also experience the impacts of City decisions on privacy and
technology, especially if they work, own a business, or attend school in Chula
Vista. Additionally, non-residents may have valuable expertise or perspectives
that should be included on the Board.
c. There is no requirement to include non-residents on the Board.
3. Privacy Advisory Board members will be selected through a combination of City staff
review, community review, and City Council review.
a. Each member of the City Council, including the Mayor, should have the authority
to directly select one member of the Board from the pool of qualified applicants.
b. The remaining members of the Board should be selected through a process that
includes review and vetting by both City staff and by community leaders, similar
to the process used to appoint members of the Technology and Privacy Advisory
Task Force.
c. Regardless of the selection process, all members of the Board must be approved
by a majority vote of the Council pursuant to the City Charter.
d. The purpose of allowing Councilmembers to have a direct role in the selection of
some members is to ensure that Board members are accountable to voters via their
elected officials.
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e. The purpose of involving community leaders in the selection process for some
members is to ensure that Board membership is not exclusively determined by
City staff or elected officials.
4. Selections to the Board should reflect the City’s diversity in terms of race, gender, and
age. Each of the following perspectives should be represented by at least one member of
the Board:
a. A resident of Council District 1
b. A resident of Council District 2
c. A resident of Council District 3
d. A resident of Council District 4
e. A technology professional with expertise in hardware/software/encryption
f. A professional financial auditor or Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
g. An attorney, legal scholar, or recognized academic with expertise in privacy
and/or civil rights
h. A member of an organization that focuses on government transparency or
individual privacy
i. A representative from an equity-based organization or a member of the Human
Relations Commission.
j. A former law enforcement official not currently or previously affiliated with the
Chula Vista Police Department
k. A former member of the Technology and Privacy Advisory Board (only applies to
the first year of appointments)
Chief Privacy Officer
5. The City should hire a full-time Chief Privacy Officer responsible for carrying out a
broad range of duties related to privacy.
a. Until a full-time Chief Privacy Officer can be budgeted and hired, the duties of
the Chief Privacy Officer should be carried out by the Chief Information Security
Officer.
b. The Chief Privacy Officer should report to the City Manager to ensure they are
accountable to City Council and the voters of Chula Vista.
i. A minority of task force members believes the Chief Privacy Officer
should report to the City Attorney to ensure they are accountable to the
voters of Chula Vista.
c. The Chief Privacy Officer’s responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
i. Provide regular training sessions and guidance to City staff on privacy
issues.
ii. Serve as the primary City staff liaison to the Privacy Advisory Board,
including:
1. Managing agendas and coordinating meetings
2. Managing the selection process for Privacy Advisory Board
members
3. Assisting in the preparation and presentation of technology Use
Policies for Board review
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iii. Performing internal audits and ensuring compliance with data retention
standards and use policies, and coordinating with external privacy auditors
when applicable
iv. Evaluating new technology acquisitions for potential privacy issues
Use Policies
6. The City should create written Use Policies that govern the use of each privacy-impacting
technology and the data generated by those technologies.
a. Each policy should clearly state the purpose of the technology, who will be
allowed to access the technology, how the technology can be used, what kind of
data the technology generates, how that data can be used, how that data is
protected, and the retention period for that data.
7. Use Policies should be drafted by the applicable department in consultation with the
Chief Privacy Officer, then reviewed by the Privacy Advisory Board.
a. Departments will use a template created by the Chief Privacy Officer.
8. Use Policies should be reviewed annually and updated if necessary. Use policies should
also be reviewed and updated any time there is a significant change in the function or
purpose of the technology.
9. Due to the large number of use policies that may need to be created or updated, the Chief
Privacy Officer will perform an analysis that scores each technology based on the impact
and risks to individual privacy. Based on the results of this analysis, use policies will be
reviewed for the highest-ranked technologies first.
a. The Privacy Advisory Board will advise the Chief Privacy Officer on the factors
to consider in scoring and ranking the technologies.
b. Facial recognition technology and other biometric surveillance systems should be
a top priority for Board review.
Data Retention and Data Sharing
10. The City should never sell the data it collects nor allow third parties working on behalf of
the City to sell or use data owned by the City except as necessary to provide the
contracted service to the City.
11. Internal data-sharing between City Departments should be subject to a review process
that includes approval by the City Manager and periodic review by the Chief Privacy
Officer and Privacy Advisory Board.
a. The purpose of this policy recommendation is to ensure there is a clear
understanding of how data is being used and shared between departments, and to
prevent situations where there is uncertainty around how data is being used, such
as in the case of the informal data-sharing that occurred between Engineering and
the Police Department regarding traffic signal camera feeds.
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12. External data-sharing between the City and third parties must be approved through a
formal, auditable process that includes the Chief Privacy Officer and Privacy Advisory
Board.
a. The purpose of this policy recommendation is to prevent situations like the
sharing of ALPR data with law enforcement agencies that should not have had
access to it.
b. The review should ensure that personal information is not being shared and that
the data has been repackaged and de-identified to minimize the possibility of
privacy violations.
13. The City Records Retention Schedule should be re-organized and expanded to include
information on what personal data is collected and when that data will be deleted.
a. As part of these updates, the Records Retention schedule should be presented in a
format that provides a category for data type in addition to the existing categories.
b. The Chief Privacy Officer should collaborate with the City Clerk to lead this
process.
14. The City should establish a more formal process for ensuring that personal data is being
deleted according to the Use Policies established for that data.
15. The City should establish a policy that it will not collect personal data unless it is
absolutely necessary to provide the core service.
a. The Chula Vista Public Library’s approach to personal data is a model that should
be followed citywide. Personal data is only collected and retained for the period
necessary to provide the service. For example, the library keeps a record of an
item checked out by an individual borrower only until that item is returned, at
which point data related to that transaction is deleted.
b. To ensure compliance with this policy, the Chief Privacy Officer should randomly
sample Departments or data sets to review on a periodic basis.
16. Where possible, the City should anonymize, remove, or de-identify data that relates to a
person.
a. It must be understood and acknowledged that anonymization strategies will not
completely protect individuals from having their identities reverse-engineered
from otherwise anonymized datasets, but these strategies are still valuable in
mitigating risks to individual privacy.
17. The role of the City’s Data Governance Committee should be more clearly defined and
communicated to the public.
a. The City should ensure that the Privacy Advisory Board and the Data Governance
Committee are not in conflict.
b. Depending on the role of the Data Governance Committee, the City should
consider adding community representatives to the committee.
c. The Data Governance Committee should report to the Chief Information Security
Officer.
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Transparency and Oversight
18. City staff should provide the public with full disclosures about what technologies have
been acquired, what data is being collected, and how that data is being used.
a. These disclosures should happen in a variety of ways, including on the City’s
website, through email newsletters, social media, and in printed communications
mailed to residents.
b. These disclosures should address what data is being collected, what department is
collecting it, how it is being used, who has access to it, how long it is retained,
etc.
c. Where feasible, signs should be posted to notify and disclose surveillance
technology. For example, if surveillance cameras are added to parks, signs should
be posted notifying visitors that they are under video surveillance.
d. The City should hold public forums, educational seminars, and other types of
community events to ensure the public is informed and has an opportunity to hold
the City accountable for how privacy-impacting technologies are being used.
19. Information about privacy and technology that is provided on the City website should be
easy to find and easy to understand.
a. Links to disclosures should be provided on each Department’s page within the
City website.
b. The City’s “smart city” webpages should have their own navigational tab or
section on the City website, rather than being contained under the Business /
Economic Development section.
20. Contracts with technology vendors should be easy for the public to find and review.
a. This should include information about the status of existing contracts, including
upcoming renewal or termination dates.
21. Data breaches should be publicly disclosed as soon as possible.
a. Notification should happen within 24 hours of the data breach being confirmed.
b. Notification should occur through a wide range of communications channels,
including social media, news media, and the City website.
22. Residents should have the opportunity to opt-out or have their data deleted if it was
provided voluntarily to the City and is not needed for City operations.
a. It is understood that individuals will not be able to opt-out of certain types of data
collection, such as a drone responding to 9-1-1 calls, or medical data being
retained following a emergency medical service call.
Procurement
23. All contracts with privacy implications must be presented to the City Council, regardless
of whether they meet standard purchasing and contracting thresholds that typically trigger
City Council review.
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24. Prior to City Council presentation, contracts with privacy implications must be reviewed
by the Chief Privacy Officer and the Privacy Advisory Board. The evaluation provided
by the Chief Privacy Officer and the Privacy Advisory Board must be included as part of
the report presented to City Council.
25. When acquiring new hardware, the Chief Information Security Officer and Chief Privacy
Officer should prepare an assessment of the technology’s potential impact on the City’s
information security and detail any mitigation strategies.
26. The City may not enter into any agreement that prohibits the City from publicly
acknowledging that it has acquired or is using a particular technology. Nondisclosure
agreements are acceptable only to extent that they protect a vendor’s proprietary
information without prohibiting the City’s acknowledgement of a relationship with the
vendor.
27. Contracts should include a clause of convenience that allows the City to terminate the
agreement in the event the vendor violates any restriction on the sale or sharing of data or
otherwise violates individual privacy protections.
28. Technology contracts should require that vendors provide the City with the capability to
audit or review who has accessed what information.
a. These access reports should be provided at pre-designated intervals to City staff
or third-party auditors.
29. City staff should be provided with additional training to assist in recognizing potential
data privacy issues in contracts.
a. Key staff to receive additional training includes the Chief Privacy Officer, Chief
Information Security Officer, City Attorney staff, and purchasing and contracting
staff.
30. Changes in the ownership of a privacy-impacting technology that has already been
reviewed by the Privacy Advisory Board should trigger a new review by the Privacy
Advisory Board.
Information Security
31. Establish a comprehensive information security policy that addresses procedures for
maintaining and controlling access to data and articulates the roles and responsibilities of
data stewards and data custodians.
a. An outline of such a policy has been developed by the Information Security
subcommittee of this Task Force and will be submitted as part of this
recommendation.
b. The policy should make clear that only City-owned mobile equipment using two-
factor authentication should be allowed to connect to the City’s primary network.
Any personal devices connecting to the City’s network must use restricted “guest”
access.
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c. The policy should provide for audits of all City-owned equipment to protect
against unauthorized storage of regulated data.
d. The policy should require data security breaches to be reviewed and addressed by
an established panel that includes the Director of Information Technology
Services, the Chief Information Security Officer, the Chief of Police, the City
Attorney, and the Chief Privacy Officer.
e. The policy should require that data is stored and transmitted in encrypted formats
whenever possible and prohibit the communication of confidential data through
end-user messaging technologies such as email, instant messaging, chat, or other
communication methods.
f. The policy should specifically address mobile computing devices, including
recovery of data in the event a mobile computing device is lost or stolen.
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Appendix A: Definitions
DRAFT – August 19, 2022
1.“Annual Surveillance Report” means a written report concerning a specific surveillance
technology that includes all the following:
a. A description of how the surveillance technology was used, including the type and
quantity of data gathered or analyzed by the technology;
b. Whether and how often data acquired through the use of the surveillance technology
was shared with internal or external entities, the name of any recipient entity, the type(s)
of data disclosed, under what legal standard(s) the information was disclosed, and the
justification for the disclosure(s) except that no confidential or sensitive information
should be disclosed that would violate any applicable law or would undermine the
legitimate security interests of the City;
c. Where applicable, a description of the physical objects to which the surveillance
technology hardware was installed without revealing the specific location of such
hardware; for surveillance technology software, a breakdown of what data sources the
surveillance technology was applied to;
d. Where applicable, a description of where the surveillance technology was deployed
geographically, by each Police Area in the relevant year;
e. A summary of community complaints or concerns about the surveillance technology,
and an analysis of its Surveillance Use Policy and whether it is adequate in protecting
civil rights and civil liberties. The analysis shall consider whether, and to what extent, the
use of the surveillance technology disproportionately impacts certain groups or
individuals;
f. The results of any internal audits or investigations relating to surveillance technology,
any information about violations or potential violations of the Surveillance Use Policy,
and any actions taken in response. To the extent that the public release of such
information is prohibited by law, City staff shall provide a confidential report to the City
Council regarding this information to the extent allowed by law;
g. Information about any data breaches or other unauthorized access to the data collected
by the surveillance technology, including information about the scope of the breach and
the actions taken in response, except that no confidential or sensitive information should
be disclosed that would violate any applicable law or would undermine the legitimate
security interests of the City;
h. A general description of all methodologies used to detect incidents of data breaches or
unauthorized access, except that no confidential or sensitive information should be
disclosed that would violate any applicable law or would undermine the legitimate
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security interests of the City;
I. Information, including crime statistics, that helps the community assess whether the
surveillance technology has been effective at achieving its identified purposes;
i. Statistics and information about Public Records Act requests regarding the relevant
subject surveillance technology, including response rates, such as the number of Public
Records Act requests on such surveillance technology and the open and close date for
each of these Public Records Act requests;
j. Total annual costs for the surveillance technology, including personnel and other
ongoing costs, and what source of funding will fund the surveillance technology in the
coming year; and
k. Any requested modifications to the Surveillance Use Policy and a detailed basis for the
request.
2. “City” means any department, unit, program, and/or subordinate division of the City of Chula
Vista as provided by Chapter XXXX of the Chula Vista Municipal Code.
3. “City staff” means City personnel authorized by the City Manager or appropriate City
department head to seek City Council Approval of Surveillance Technology in conformance with
this Chapter.
4. “Community meeting” means a publicly held meeting that is accessible, noticed at least
seventy-two hours in advance in at least two languages, for the purpose of educating
communities, answering questions, and learning about potential impacts of surveillance
technology on disadvantaged groups.
5. “Continuing agreement” means a written agreement that automatically renews unless
terminated by one or more parties.
6. “Exigent circumstances” means a City department’s good faith belief that an emergency
involving imminent danger of death or serious physical injury to any individual requires the use
of surveillance technology that has not received prior approval by City Council.
7. “Facial recognition technology” means an automated or semi-automated process that assists in
identifying or verifying an individual based on an individual’s face.
8. “Individual” means a natural person.
9. “Personal communication device” means a mobile telephone, a personal digital assistant, a
wireless capable tablet and a similar wireless two-way communications and/or portable internet-
accessing device, whether procured or subsidized by a City entity or personally owned, that is
used in the regular course of City business.
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10. “Police area” refers to each of the geographic districts assigned to a Chula Vista Police
Department captain or commander and as such districts are amended from time to time.
11. “Surveillance” (or “spying”) means to observe or analyze the movements, behavior, data, or
actions of individuals. Individuals include those whose identity can be revealed by data or
combinations of data, such as license plate data, images, IP addresses, user identifications,
unique digital identifiers, or data traces left by the individual.
12. “Surveillance technology” means any software (e.g., scripts, code, Application Programming
Interfaces), electronic device, or system utilizing an electronic device used, designed, or
primarily intended to observe, collect, retain, analyze, process, or share audio, electronic, visual,
location, thermal, olfactory, biometric, or similar information specifically associated with, or
capable of being associated with, any individual or group. It also includes the product (e.g.,
audiovisual recording, data, analysis, report) of such surveillance technology. Examples of
surveillance technology include, but are not limited to the following: cell site simulators
(Stingrays); automated license plate readers; gunshot detectors (ShotSpotter); drone-mounted
data collection; facial recognition software; thermal imaging systems; body-worn cameras; social
media analytics software; gait analysis software; video cameras that can record audio or video
and transmit or be remotely accessed. It also includes software designed to monitor social media
services or forecast and/or predict criminal activity or criminality, and biometric identification
hardware or software. “Surveillance technology” does not include devices, software, or
hardware, unless they have been equipped with, or are modified to become or include, a
surveillance technology beyond what is set forth below or used beyond a purpose as set forth
below:
a. Routine office hardware, such as televisions, computers, credit card machines, badge
readers, copy machines, and printers, that is in widespread use and will not be used for
any public surveillance or law enforcement functions related to the public;
b. Parking Ticket Devices (PTDs) used solely for parking enforcement-related purposes,
including any sensors embedded in parking sensors to detect the presence of a car in the
space;
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. Manually-operated technological devices used primarily for internal municipal entity
communications and are not designed to surreptitiously collect surveillance data, such as
radios and email systems;
f. City databases that do not contain any data or other information collected, captured,
recorded, retained, processed, intercepted, or analyzed by surveillance technology,
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including payroll, accounting, or other fiscal databases;
g. Medical equipment used to diagnose, treat, or prevent disease or injury, provided that
any information obtained from this equipment is used solely for medical purposes;
h. Police department interview room cameras;
i. City department case management systems;
j. Personal Communication Devices that have not been modified beyond stock
manufacturer capabilities in a manner described above;
k. Surveillance technology used by the City solely to monitor and conduct internal
investigations involving City employees, contractors, and volunteers; and,
l. Systems, software, databases, and data sources used for revenue collection on behalf of
the City by the City Treasurer, provided that no information from these sources is shared
by the City Treasurer with any other City department or third-party except as part of
efforts to collect revenue that is owed to the City.
14. “Surveillance Impact Report” means a publicly-posted written report including, at a
minimum, the following:
a. Description: Information describing the surveillance technology and how it works,
including product descriptions from manufacturers;
b. Purpose: Information on the proposed purposes(s) for the surveillance technology;
c. Location: The physical or virtual location(s) it may be deployed, using general
descriptive terms, and crime statistics for any location(s);
d. Impact: An assessment of the Surveillance Use Policy for the particular technology and
whether it is adequate in protecting civil rights and liberties and whether the surveillance
technology was used or deployed, intentionally or inadvertently, in a manner that may
disproportionately affect marginalized communities;
e. Mitigations: Identify specific, affirmative technical and procedural measures that will
be implemented to safeguard the public from each identified impact;
f. Data Types and Sources: A list of all types and sources of data to be collected,
analyzed, or processed by the surveillance technology, including open source data,
scores, reports, logic or algorithm used, and any additional information derived
therefrom;
g. Data Security: Information about the controls that will be designed and implemented to
ensure that adequate security objectives are achieved to safeguard the data collected or
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generated by the surveillance technology from unauthorized access or disclosure;
h. Fiscal Costs and Sources: The forecasted, prior, and ongoing fiscal costs for the
surveillance technology, including initial purchase, personnel, and other ongoing costs,
and any past, current or potential sources of funding;
i. Third-Party Dependence: Whether use or maintenance of the surveillance technology
will require data gathered by the surveillance technology to be handled or stored by a
third-party vendor at any time;
j. Alternatives: A summary of all alternative methods (whether involving the use of a new
technology or not) considered before deciding to use the proposed surveillance
technology, including the costs and benefits associated with each alternative and an
explanation of the reasons why each alternative is inadequate;
k. Track Record: A summary of the experience (if any) other entities, especially
government entities, have had with the proposed technology, including, if available,
quantitative information about the effectiveness of the proposed
surveillance technology in achieving its stated purpose in other jurisdictions, and any
known adverse information about the surveillance technology such as unanticipated
costs, failures, or civil rights and civil liberties abuses, existing publicly reported
controversies, and any court rulings in favor or in opposition to the surveillance; and
l. Public engagement and comments: A description of any community engagement held
and any future community engagement plans, number of attendees, a compilation of all
comments received and City departmental responses given, and City departmental
conclusions about potential neighborhood impacts and how such impacts may differ as it
pertains to different segments of the community that may result from the acquisition of
surveillance technology.
15. "Surveillance Use Policy" means a publicly-released and legally-enforceable policy for use
of the surveillance technology that at a minimum specifies the following:
a. Purpose: The specific purpose(s) that the surveillance technology is intended to
advance;
b. Use: The specific uses that are authorized, and the rules and processes required prior to
such use;
c. Data Collection: The information that can be collected, captured, recorded, intercepted,
or retained by the surveillance technology, as well as data that might be inadvertently
collected during the authorized uses of the surveillance technology and what measures
will be taken to minimize and delete such data. Where applicable, any data sources the
surveillance technology will rely upon, including open source data, should be listed;
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d. Data Access: The job classification of individuals who can access or use the collected
information, and the rules and processes required prior to access or use of the
information;
e. Data Protection: The safeguards that protect information from unauthorized access,
including logging, encryption, and access control mechanisms;
f. Data Retention: The time period, if any, for which information collected by the
surveillance technology will be routinely retained, the reason such retention period is
appropriate to further the purpose(s), the process by which the information is regularly
deleted after that period lapses, and the specific conditions that must be met to retain
information beyond that period;
g. Public Access: A description of how collected information can be accessed or used by
members of the public, including criminal defendants;
h. Third Party Data Sharing: If and how information obtained from the
surveillance technology can be used or accessed, including any required justification or
legal standard necessary to do so and any obligations imposed on the recipient of the
information;
i. Training: The training required for any individual authorized to use the surveillance
technology or to access information collected by the surveillance technology;
j. Auditing and Oversight: The procedures used to ensure that the Surveillance Use Policy
is followed, including internal personnel assigned to ensure compliance with the policy,
internal recordkeeping of the use of the surveillance technology or access to information
collected by the surveillance technology, technical measures to monitor for misuse, any
independent person or entity with oversight authority, and the legally enforceable
sanctions for violations of the policy; and
k. Maintenance: The procedures used to ensure that the security and integrity of the
surveillance technology and collected information will be maintained.
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Information Security Subcommittee Report
August 15, 2022
Members: Charles Walker and Carlos De La Toba
Recommended City Information Security Policies
PURPOSE: To provide guidelines with regard to the responsibility of every City of Chula Vista (City) employee
who accesses Data and information in electronic formats and to provide for the security of that Data and to
restrict unauthorized access to such information.
POLICY: Electronic Data is important to the City assets that must be protected by appropriate safeguards and
managed with respect to Data stewardship. This policy defines the required Electronic Data ma nagement
environment and classifications of Data, and assigns responsibility for ensuring Data and information privacy
and security at each level of access and control.
SCOPE AND APPLICABILITY: This policy applies to all City personnel and affiliated users with access to City
Data.
DEFINITIONS:
Affiliated Users: Vendors and guests who have a relationship to the City and need access to City systems.
Application or App: A software program run on a computer or mobile device for the purpose of providing a
business/academic/social function.
Cloud: An on-demand availability, geographically dispersed infrastructure of computer system resources,
especially data storage (cloud storage) and computing power, without direct active management by the end
user. Clouds may be limited to a single organization (Private Cloud), or be available to many organizations
(Public Cloud). Cloud-computing providers offer their “services” according to three standard models:
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS).
Confidential Data: Data that are specifically restricted from open disclosure to the public by law are classified
as Confidential Data. Confidential Data requires a high level of protection against unau thorized disclosure,
modification, transmission, destruction, and use. Confidential Data include, but are not limited to:
• Medical Data, such as Electronic Protected Health Information and Data protected by the Health
Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA);
• Investigation. Only investigation data and information within the following broad categories is to be
considered Confidential Data:
o Active Investigations;
o Activity that is covered by a fully executed non-disclosure agreement (NDA);
o Information, data, etc., that is proprietary or confidential (whether it belongs to an internal
investigator or an outside collaborator), regardless of whether it is subject to an NDA;
o Information or data that is required to be deemed confidential by state or federal law (e.g.,
personally identifying information about research subjects, HIPAA or FERPA protected
information, etc.); and
o Information related to an allegation or investigation into misconduct.
• Information access security, such as login passwords, Personal Identification Numbers (PINS), logs with
personally identifiable Data, digitized signatures, and encryption keys;
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• Primary account numbers, cardholder Data, credit card numbers, payment card information, banking
information, employer or taxpayer identification number, demand deposit account number, savings
account number, financial transaction device account number, account password , stock or other
security certificate or account number (such as Data protected by the Payment Card Indu stry Data
Security Standard) ;
• Personnel file, including Social Security Numbers;
• Library records;
• Driver’s license numbers, state personal identification card numbers, Social Security Numbers,
employee identification numbers, government passport numbers, and other personal information that
is protected from disclosure by state and federal identity theft laws and regulations.
Data Classifications: All Electronic Data covered by this policy are assigned one of three classifications:
• Confidential
• Operation Critical
• Unrestricted
Data Custodian: Persons or departments providing operational support for an information system and having
responsibility for implementing the Data Maintenance and Control Method defined by the Data Steward.
Data Maintenance and Control Method: The process defined and approved by the Data Steward to handle
the following tasks:
• Definition of access controls with assigned access, privilege enablement, and documented
management approval, based on job functions and requirements.
• Identification of valid Data sources
• Acceptable methods for receiving Data from identified sources
• Process for the verification of received Data
• Rules, standards and guidelines for the entry of new Data, change of existing Data or deletion of Data
• Rules, standards and guidelines for controlled access to Data
• Process for Data integrity verification
• Acceptable methods for distributing, releasing, sharing, storing or transferring Data
• Acceptable Data locations
• Providing for the security of Confidential Data and Operation Critical Data
• Assuring sound methods for handling, processing, security and disaster recovery of Data
• Assuring that Data are gathered, processed, shared and stored in accordance with the City privacy
statement (to be written).
Data Steward: The persons responsible for City functions and who determine Data Maintenance and Control
Methods are Data Stewards.
Electronic Data/Data: Distinct pieces of information, intentionally or unintentionally provided to the City in a
variety of administrative, academic and business processes. This policy covers all Data stored on any
electronic media, and within any computer systems defined as a City information technology resource.
Mobile Computing Devices: Information technology resources of such devices include, but are not limited to,
laptops, tablets, cell phones, smart phones, and other portable devices.
Operation Critical Data: Data determined to be critical and essential to the successful operation of the City as
a whole, and whose loss or corruption would cause a severe detrimental impact to continued operations.
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Data receiving this classification require a high level of protection against accidental d istribution, exposure or
destruction, and must be covered by high quality disaster recovery and business contin uity measures. Data in
this category include Data stored on Enterprise Systems such as Data passed through networked
communications systems. Such Data may be released or shared under defined, specific procedures for
disclosure, such as departmental guidelines, documented procedures or policies.
City Provided Data Systems: Information technology resources, as defined and described by the City and used
for the storage, maintenance and processing of City Data.
Unrestricted Data: Information that may be released or shared as needed.
Usage/Data Use: Usage and Data Use are used interchangeably and are defined as gathering, viewing,
storing, sharing, transferring, distributing, modifying, printing and otherwise acting to provide a Data
maintenance environment.
PROCEDURES:
1. Data Stewardship
Data Stewards are expected to create, communicate and enforce Data Maintenance and Control Methods.
Data Stewards are also expected to have knowledge of functions in their areas and the Data and information
used in support of those functions. The Chief Information Officer(CIO) is ultimately accountable for the Data
management and stewardship of all the City data. The CIO may appoint others in their respective areas of
responsibility.
2. Data Maintenance and Control Method
Data Stewards will develop and maintain Data Maintenance and Control Methods for their assigned systems.
When authorizing and assigning access controls defined in the Data Maintenance and Control Methods
involving Confidential Data and Operation Critical Data, Data Stewards will restrict user privileges to the least
access necessary to perform job functions based on job role and res ponsibility.
If the system is a City Provided Data System, City Technology Services will provide, upon request, guidance and
services for the tasks identified in the Data Maintenance and Control Method.
If the system is provided by a Public Cloud, the Data Steward must still verify that the Data Maintenance and
Control Method used by the Public Cloud provider meets current City technology standards (to be written)?.
Further, ongoing provisions for meeting current City technology and security standards (to be written)? must
be included in the service contract.
Review of Public Cloud solutions must include City Technology Services and City Attorney prior to final solution
selection and purchase.
Use of personal equipment to conduct City business must comply with all guidance provided by City policies
(to be written)?.
3. Data Custodianship
Data Custodians will use Data in compliance with the established Data Maintenance and Control Method.
Failure to process or handle Data in compliance with the established method for a system will be considered a
violation of the City policies.
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4. Data Usage
In all cases, Data provided to the City will be used in accordance with the Privacy Statement (to be written)
Software solutions, including SaaS solutions, are selected to manage Data and are procured, purchased and
installed in conjunction with City (to be written)
Data will be released in accordance with City (to be written). Requests for information from external agencies
(such as Freedom of Information Act requests, subpoenas, law enforcement agency requests, or any other
request for Data from an external source) must be directed to the City Attorney and processed in accordance
with existing policies.
Standards for secure file transmissions, or Data exch anges, must be evaluated by the CIO when a system other
than a City Provided Data System is selected or when a Public Cloud is utilized. Specific contract language may
be required. The City Attorney must be consulted regarding such language.
Unencrypted authorization and Data transmission are not acceptable.
Communication of Confidential Data via end-user messaging technologies (i.e., email, instant messaging, chat
or other communication methods) is prohibited
5. Storing Data
Data cannot be stored on a system other than a City Provided Data System without the advance permission of
the Data Steward and demonstrated legitimate ne ed.
Data should be stored in encrypted formats whenever possible. Confidential Data must be stored in
encrypted formats. Encryption strategies should be reviewed with City Technology Services in advance to
avoid accidental Data lockouts.
Data cannot be stored on a City-provided Computing Device unless the device is encrypted without the
advance permission of the Data Steward and demonstrated legitimate need.
Data must be stored on devices and at locations approved by Data Stewards. If information techn ology
resources (computers, printers and other items) are stored at an off-campus location, the location must be
approved by Data Stewards prior to using such resources to store City Data.
Technology enables the storage of Data on fax machines, copiers, cell phones, point-of-sale devices and other
electronic equipment. Data Stewards are responsible for discovery of stored Data and removal of the Data
prior to release of the equipment.
When approving Mobile Computing Device Usage, Data Stewards must verify that those using Mobile
Computing Devices can provide information about what Data was stored on the device (such as a cop y of the
last backup) in the event the device is lost or stolen.
In all cases, Data storage must comply with City retention policies. Data Usage in a Public Cloud system must
have specific retention standards(to be written)? written in the service contract. The City Attorney must be
consulted regarding such language.
Provisions for the return of all City Data in the event of contract termination must be included in the contract,
when Data is stored on a Public Cloud. The City Attorney must be consulted regarding such language. Current
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security standards (to be written)? (such as controlled access, personal firewalls, antivirus, fully updated and
patched operating systems, etc.) will be evaluated when a system other than a City Provided Data System is
selected and must be covered in contract language. The City Attorney must be consulted regarding such
language.
Data stored on Mobile Computing Devices must be protected by current security standard methods (such as
controlled access, firewalls, antivirus, fully updated and patched operating systems, etc.).
City standard procedures (to be written) for the protection and safeguarding of Confidential Data and
Operation Critical Data must be applied equally and without exception to City Provided Data Systems, Mobile
Computing Devices and systems other than City Provided Data Systems, such as Public Cloud solution.
6. Systems and network Data
Systems and network Data, generated through systems or network administration, logs or other system
recording activities, cannot be used, or captured, gathered, analyzed or disseminated, without the advance
permission of the Chief Information Officer.
7. Value of Data
In all cases where Data are to be processed through a Public Cloud, the following assessment must be d one:
The value of the Data must be determined in some tangible way.
Signature approval from the Data Steward’s division vice president or ap propriate party with the ability to
authorize activity at the level of the value of the Data must be obtained.
8. Sanctions
Failure to follow the guidelines contained in this document will be considered inappropriate use of a City
information technology resource and therefore a violation of the City policy(to be written).
9. Data Security Breach Review Panel
A Data Security Breach Review Panel (Panel) comprised of the following members will be established:
o Chief Information Officer
o Chief of Police
o City Attorney
o Chief Privacy Officer
10. Data Loss Prevention Software
Define granular access rights for removable devices and peripheral ports and establish policies for users,
computers and groups, maintaining productivity while enforcing device security
11. Audits
All City owned equipment is subject to audit for unauthorized storage of regulated data. Devices authorized to
store regulated data are subject to audits as deemed necessary by the CIO. Reasonable prior notification of an
audit will be provided. Audit results are handled confidentially by Information Security staff and are reported
to the CIO in aggregate.
12. Mobile Devices
City owned mobile equipment will be exclusively allowed on the City’s primary network and use two factor
authentication. All personal devices must use “guest” access if provided.
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