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wrong wilson acknowledged as much at cityclub where she said cameras are less useful for preventing or deterring crime than for solving it that concession should end the prevention argument the camera hawks on the city council are making but investigative usefulness was never the test almost any sufficiently invasive practice is useful to investigators door to door searches would be document checkpoints would be unfettered access to medical records would be we restrict those not because they don t work but because a free society does not make its residents prove their innocence to a camera the burden is on the government to justify watching a population suspected of nothing it might help does not carry that burden by turning the cameras on wilson added to a system that already sits in constitutionally uncertain territory washington s constitution forbids disturbing anyone s private affairs without authority of law and the state supreme court reads that guarantee as broader than the federal fourth amendment broad enough to require a warrant before police track a car s movements state v jackson and explicit that the protection does not shrink merely because people have grown accustomed to being watched federally the u s supreme court held in carpenter v united states that assembling a record of a person s movements over time can constitute a search even when each movement happens in public while declining to decide whether ordinary security cameras cross the same line a permanent recorded searchable network trained on public crowds sits squarely in the space those rulings left open the cameras on aurora already sat there the stadium network enlarges it what changed on friday is not the constitutional question but the mayor s posture toward it in march she hit pause precisely to avoid feeding that uncertainty and on friday she fed it anyway before the safeguards she promised exist none of this is a complaint about cameras in general the stadium district was never going to be unwatched the city s emergency operations center already takes continuous feeds from hundreds of sdot traffic cameras and police routinely pull footage from private businesses after an incident what is different about the stadium cameras 20 installations each consisting of four fixed lenses forming a 360 degree view plus one pan tilt zoom camera for 100 distinct feeds is what becomes of the images they feed spd s real time crime center as city councilmember bob kettle approvingly noted in his statement commending the activation the decision connect s them to the real time crime center there the footage is recorded retained and searchable what sets it apart from a live traffic feed is not the lens but the system behind it images pulled into a police database held and made available for investigative use rather than passing through and vanishing because this database is hosted by a private vendor it can be retrieved by subpoena including from out of state the city s own surveillance law already says as much data may be shared to the extent required by court order subpoena or as otherwise required by law no matter what data protections the city has promised and the footage need not wait for a subpoena in order to escape anyone can request and receive it under the public records act including as advocates have noted out of state authorities checking who drove past a reproductive health care clinic it is a different object from a live traffic feed and it is the object now switched on a spokesperson clarified to publicola that once the games are over the city will turn the cameras back off until a long term decision is made about the original pilot program that is welcome but it is not a sunset date or a binding protocol and switching cameras off is not the same as deleting what they recorded the fine print the city skipped is still missing published activation criteria a single named official accountable for making the call a retention and deletion schedule for everything captured or derived from it a firm decommissioning date and a binding commitment that the data will be purged and never shared for immigration enforcement purposes none of that requires waiting all of it could be published before the first world cup match on june 15 the council s majority spent months pressing wilson to turn the cameras on but it cannot compel a mayor to run a surveillance system and no one should want it to that power would effectively bind every future mayor to operate every funded system no matter what later comes to light wilson says she cares about privacy and that her team is working on the rules a published protocol a firm deletion date and a decommissioning plan before june 15 would prove it until then turning the cameras on is not a public safety policy it is the absence of one phil mocek is a software engineer and civic technologist who researches government surveillance and public records compliance in washington share this publicola post email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on facebook opens in new window facebook more share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on x opens in new window x like this like loading 12 comments filed under surveillance mayor wilson privacy public safety taxes june 8 2026 june 8 2026 wilson backs down on tenant protection rollbacks fire department funding plan fizzles privacy advocates push back on surveillance during world cup 1 mayor katie wilson s office confirmed that wilson will not be proposing changes to the city s just cause eviction ordinance that housing developers including the housing development consortium had been pushing for months tenant advocacy groups opposed the potential changes and met with wilson the week before last to urge her not to move forward with the changes some affordable housing developers have argued for years that the city s landlord tenant protections which are stronger than the state s have made it impossible for them to evict tenants who don t pay rent or break the law specifically they wanted wilson to roll back the city s roommate law which allows renters to add roommates without asking their landlords permission and and align the requirements to evict a tenant with three days notice with the more landlord friendly state law the mayor is not proposing changes to the roommate law or the three day notice a wilson spokesperson said her office has received proposals and perspectives on a wide range of economic health safety and operational issues former city councilmember cathy moore said she would introduce legislation that would have rolled back the roommate and three day notice provisions but resigned before she actually introduced it had wilson introduced the rollbacks tenant advocates argued it would have given centrist councilmembers the opportunity to reopen the entire just cause eviction law which includes many other provisions landlords oppose the optics of wilson a tenants rights activist before becoming mayor proposing landlord friendly legislation that even her predecessor bruce harrell didn t support would also be terrible for obvious reasons wilson does plan to propose legislation in collaboration with councilmember dionne foster to curb rental junk fees in july her spokesperson said wilson wrote about these fees which include notice fees fees for going month to month and monthly billing fees in 2023 2 a proposal to create a special taxing district to pay for the seattle fire department is dead at least for this year publicola has confirmed creating a fire district would have allowed the city to fund much of sfd s budget through a new property tax moving that money out of the city s general fund and helping to close a budget deficit wilson recently said would be close to 175 million the district authorized by a new state law this year would have had the ability to levy taxes outside the existing property tax cap of 3 60 per 1 000 of assessed property value making it an appealing way to offload a big chunk of city spending publicola is supported entirely by readers like you click below to become a one time or monthly contributor support publicola the firefighters union however did not get on board effectively killing the proposal the plan would have made much of the fire department s funding subject to regular voter approval it would have also moved sfd under the direct control of the city council acting as the fire district s board the union reportedly wanted sfd to have direct participation on the board at a minimum publicola exclusively reported on the potential fire district proposal last month at a city club event last week wilson said the city is facing a budget deficit of about 175 million next year without the fire district serving as a relief valve wilson will likely introduce additional taxes this year including a local capital gain tax opposed by business groups like the seattle metro chamber and downtown seattle association 3 in response to wilson s announcement last week that she will turn on police surveillance cameras in the stadium district for the upcoming world cup games the anti surveillance advocates at community not cameras questioned the mayor s claim that police and the fbi had presented evidence of a credible threat to public safety wilson previously said she would not turn the cameras on without evidence of a credible threat but did not clearly define what she meant by that term last week she cited general but credible threats to justify activating the cameras by activating an axon backed surveillance grid in seattle the city is risking this data being handed over to a weaponized federal intelligence apparatus the coalition said in a statement r egardless of whatever bureaucratic policy or verbal assurances the mayor hides behind the city of seattle does not have the power to stop the federal government from obtaining this d ata once it exists any local safeguards or policy limitations the city claims spd follows are completely meaningless against the collection capabilities and legal mechanisms available to the federal government if you build it and if you turn it on they can take it our seattle a group of wilson supporters who organized to hold the mayor accountable to her campaign promises requested footage from one of the surveillance cameras which spd has maintained is deleted after five days and only accessible to a handful of people they received and posted the footage on instagram on may 28 share this publicola post email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on facebook opens in new window facebook more share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on x opens in new window x like this like loading 12 comments filed under renters seattle fire department surveillance city council homelessness mayor wilson podcasts police june 6 2026 this week on publicola june 6 2026 ai use by spd doubling taxes for transit fare gates at light rail stations and more by erica c barnett monday june 1 seattle nice how badly did sound transit screw seattle over on the first of three three seattle nice podcasts this week we disdid a deep dive on the sound transit board s decision last week to indefinitely defer the voter approved light rail extension to ballard a stretch that boasts by far the highest projected ridership of any line in the sound transit 3 package voters approved ten years ago is ballard light rail doomed tune in to get our takes aide to councilmember saka sought restraining order against constituent elaine ko the longtime and now retired chief of staff to city councilmember rob saka got so fed up with a rude and persistent district 1 constituent that she sought a restraining order that would prevent him from contacting her about city business a judge said the man s behavior didn t constitute harassment but not all our readers agreed tuesday june 2 wilson proposes doubling transit sales tax to fund local bus service expansion mayor wilson rolled out a propsal to double the amount of sales tax seattle residents pay to get extra transit service in the city in announcing her plan to increase the regressive sales tax wilson said she decided not to impose a vehicle license fee on car owners in part because she thought it would prove too controversial wednesday june 3 new federal guidelines put funding for permanent supportive housing at risk after a delay that resulted from a legal battle over an earlier proposal the us department of housing and urban development proposed new funding guidelines for housing and services for people experiencing homelessness local providers and advocates are still discussing the implications of the guidelines which could restrict funds for permanent supportive housing but appear less restrictive than the earlier deeply problematic proposal seattle nice is seattle s housing market in trouble on this week s second episode of the podcast we talked to redfin s chief economist daryl fairweather about the recent slowdown of seattle s housing market and whether it means renters and home buyers might see some relief on housing costs thursday june 4 at city club event mayor answers questions like why isn t pizza cheap yet fox 13 anchor han kim interviewed the mayor at an event sponsored by city club seattle hitting wilson repeatedly with bad faith questions and insisting that she respond to delusional claims about homeless people by d list former reality star crystal aficionado and la mayoral candidate spencer pratt no more laissez fare pilot program will install fare gates at up to 14 stations sound transit announced a pilot project that will add fare gates to as many as 14 light rail stations citing high rates of fare evasion by riders who board trains without paying at orca card readers the proposal would cost between etween 79 million and 88 million according to staff and bring in an additional 30 million a year friday june 5 investigation found that kcrha director retaliated against staffers who complained an investigation last year found that a preponderance of the evidence supports the conclusion that king county regional homelessness authority director retaliated against two former stffers edmund witter and xochitl maykovich after the two voiced concerns about kinnison s leadership at a contentious staff meeting last year spd s chief spokesperson asked ai for help with interview prep rewriting blog posts and more the seattle police department communications director barbara delollis used unapproved ai chatbots to produce a number of spd related documents including a comprehensive communications toolkit for a police department exiting a consent decree the prompts included a request to rewrite a published blog post to ake this a better story for the public of a city that doenst liek crime or disorder sic wilson caves on stadium surveillance two more cops allege discrimination as spd settles earlie...