ICE resolution and Clearview AI

Ward 1 resident, a retired computer professional, backed the ICE resolution and warned facial recognition is error-prone especially for Black and brown faces.

Supported Resolution 46 and attacked Resolution 44 as a Fourth Amendment threat and an environmental burden, calling AI a continuation of an Orwellian surveillance state.

Ward 1 resident reported her group's know-your-rights trainings reached about 100 people in March, urged voting on the resolution, and asked the council to reject the Clearview contract citing NPR reporting on ICE's surveillance web.

Ward 1 tech worker supporting Resolution 46 and opposing Clearview because the company scrapes web data without consent and can't be trusted as custodians of identity.

Lifelong Ward 2 resident urged the city to stand against ICE and against Clearview AI, calling AI dehumanizing and a violation of privacy.

Resident who works with immigrant families, whose own parent was deported, supported the ICE resolution and raised facial recognition concerns; asked leaders to back the New York for All Act.