The city’s council has established the new legislature as two ordinances. One of them comes into effect immediately and bans facial recognition tech inside city bureaus including law enforcement departments. Bureau heads have also been asked to submit a complete assessment of their facial recognition...
The National Civic League has a document with guidelines for charter commissions that describes what should be done via a charter commission versus through legislation – the ordinances that the council votes on. Many of the ideas discussed during the election were about specific policies. But if y...
Kathy Kozachenko and Elaine Noblebecame the nation's firstopenly lesbian or gay elected officials in 1974. Kozachenko won a seat on the Ann Arbor City Council in Michigan, while Noble held a positionin the Massachusetts General Assembly. 1977: First openly gay man elected JIM WATSON/AFP // ...