Legislation

While Bill 26-0525 is a strong start, the Committee on Health should make some key changes to strengthen the legislation. This includes ensuring that any HIPAA exemptions are tailored to protected health information, making sure consent cannot be buried in broad terms of service language, and shortening the right to deletion period to 45 days to be in line with other states' deletion requirements.

While we support the District in moving towards more energy efficiency, the ACLU-DC strongly opposes the creation of infrastructures for pervasive mass surveillance and have concerns about the use of a public-private partnership to execute such a project.

With good laws in place, recording of police-civilian encounters will promote police accountability, deter officer and civilian misconduct, and provide objective evidence to help resolve civilian complaints against police without significantly infringing on privacy.