Urbana council debates surveillance ordinance language after police, review boards weigh in Council heard competing input on a draft surveillance-technology ordinance: commissioners and legal staff asked to protect residents and require documentation before destroying unapproved data; police urged narrow operational exceptions for exigent use, patches and pending approvals to avoid harms to investigations.

Urbana's council is locked in a heated debate over a proposed surveillance ordinance that balances resident privacy with police operational needs—can they find common ground?

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