FROM: James D. Herberg, General Manager
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VIDEO RETENTION BILL
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GENERAL MANAGER'S RECOMMENDATION
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RECOMMENDATION:
Direct Orange County Sanitation District staff and Lobbyist to pursue legislation amending the California Government Code Section 53160 requirements for retention of video records.
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BACKGROUND
In 2019, the Legislative and Public Affairs Committee authorized staff and our Lobbyist to work with the California Special Districts Association (CSDA) and the Municipal Information Systems Association of California (MISAC) to carry a bill updating and amending video retention requirements in California Government Code Section 53160.
Working with CSDA and MISAC, Assemblyman Cooley authored Assembly Bill (AB) 510. The goal of AB 510 was to allow local public agencies, including special districts, to adopt records retention policies designed for modern digital recording technologies, while ensuring the proper retention of any records in which an incident may have occurred. This proposed bill would have allowed agencies to retain important records while deleting useless ones, thus saving a significant amount of ratepayer dollars on unnecessary data storage costs. Unfortunately, AB 510 died in the State Assembly in January 2020.
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PROBLEM
The California Government Code requires public agencies, including the Orange County Sanitation District (OC San), to retain all video records for a minimum of 12 months. Many of the video records stored by OC San, such as security camera footage, do not capture any useful information; but must be retained at an estimated cost of $72,000 per year.
PROPOSED SOLUTION
Work with associations such a...
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