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Felder questions data privacy policies for NextGen 911 multimedia features

New York City Council · Sep 9, 2026 · starts 2:48:26 · 52 sec

Felder asks what policies will govern access, retention, sharing, and deletion of photographs, videos, and text messages that NextGen 911 will accept. Gelobter says they need to circle back, noting the Office of Privacy lives within OTI. Barbera clarifies those functions are not in phase one but in the next phase, requiring legal assessment of retention requirements.

Unidentified speaker

Thank you for the question.

Unidentified speaker

I think we will, unless you happen to know the answer off the top of your head, I think we need to circle back with you because I do think, again, we also have the

Unidentified speaker

Office of Privacy lives in an OTI as well, and so ensuring that whatever we roll out with a NextGen 911 also adheres to best practices there.

Unidentified speaker

I don't have that answer in front of me, unless Rob does.

Unidentified speaker

With this phase of NextGen 911, those functions will not be implemented.

Unidentified speaker

That's in the next phase to come.

Unidentified speaker

That we would have to do a complete assessment to find out what the legal requirements are from a retention and evidence retention standpoint in order to, we'd work with the agencies to determine that.

Simcha Felder

Okay, thank you.