City Surveillance and the Board of Estimates Video

On October 13th more than a dozen community members showed up at the Board of Estimates meeting on the city's 2027 operating budget to speak against spending money on surveillance technologies like Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs). The city has not yet uploaded the video record of that meeting, citing technical issues, but has sent it to community members who have requested it. Given the public interest and engagement in this meeting, we are posting the missing video here for community members to access. 

The budget will not be finalized until November. New information, including a state lawsuit by WI-ACLU and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, continues to inform this evolving discussion. If you have an opinion, please share it with the city council (https://cityforms.cityoflacrosse.org/Forms/ContactCityCouncil) and the mayor (washingtonspiveys@cityoflacrosse.org).