The vote on expanding the CCTV surveillance cameras to more neighborhoods happens at tomorrow’s Seattle City Council meeting. There are five amendments on the table, let’s talk about them:
Sep 9, 2025 02:07Amendment A is co-sponsored with me and CM Kettle. I talked about putting forward this amendment a few weeks ago. Essentially, it pauses all CCTV camera systems for 60 days if there’s a warrant, subpoena, court order or release from
City or vendor of CCTV data on a federal immigration matter.
Amendment B sponsored by me adds requirements to the evaluation plan on the CCTV pilot.
Amendment C sponsored by me limits the approval of the CCTV pilot to only operate until July 1, 2028 unless SPD submits to the council and the council passes an ordinance to approve of the program implementation.
Amendment D sponsored by CM Strauss limits the cameras in the planned expansion to only the stadium district. This would take Capitol Hill and Central District off the table for the camera expansion.
And the last Amendment is E and is sponsored by me and it would restrict Capitol Hill’s cameras to only arterial streets, meaning no cameras on Cal Anderson Park.
And those are our amendments!
On a final note: I was against this CCTV pilot program approved last year (before I got onto council), and I do not support the expansion of it for reasons I will speak to at full council tomorrow. Public comment starts at 2PM, see you there!
