To: Board of County Commissioners
Through: Tyler S. Brown, Sheriff
Prepared By:
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Dawn Johnson, County Attorney
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Presenter: Travis Stewart, Public Safety Bureau
Matthew Walker, Public Safety Bureau
Dawn Johnson, County Attorney
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Subject:
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2:00 PM *Notice of Intent to Use Facial Recognition Service
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Purpose and Request:
recommended action
This Board Summary Report is intended to serve as the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office (ACSO)'s notice of intent to use Lumen's facial recognition service (FR) pursuant to C.R.S. ? 24-18-302(1). ACSO further requests authorization to proceed to the public review and comment period on the draft Accountability Report regarding the Lumen FR.
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Background and Discussion: The Lumen FR compares a probe image of an unknown suspect to a collection of images, consisting of booking photos, provided by the Colorado Information Sharing Consortium (CISC). Lumen software previously offered facial recognition technology in 2017, and ACSO successfully used the FR technology to solve crime in our service area from 2018 until July 2020, when Lumen disabled the FR technology pending passage of legislation providing clear guidelines for the use of facial recognition technology. Senate Bill 22-113, which was signed into law in June 2022, provides that guidance, and Lexis-Nexis, the vendor of the Lumen software, has re-enabled the FR component of the Lumen software. In light of the agency's prior success with using Lumen's FR technology, ACSO wishes to resume its use in accordance with the requirements of Senate Bill 22-113 to assist in solving crime.
As stated above, ACSO had been successfully using FR technology to identify previously unknown suspects involved in criminal activity in our service area. The images used in this technology were open-source images obtained from publicly available resources. In response to several societal changes surrounding law enforcement, the comp...
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