SB 1583 Summary

• Requires municipalities, counties, and state agencies to obtain approval from their respective governing bodies before funding, acquiring, deploying, or sharing data from military equipment or surveillance equipment, with specific definitions covering drones, armored vehicles, firearms over .50 caliber, facial recognition, license plate readers, and social media monitoring tools.

• Mandates submission of detailed impact reports and use policies addressing potential civil rights violations, discrimination, disparate impacts, data retention, training requirements, and public safety measures before approval can be granted.

• Establishes strict approval standards requiring demonstrable benefits that outweigh costs and assurance that equipment will not be deployed based on discriminatory, viewpoint-based, or disparate impact factors.

• Requires annual public reporting on equipment usage, data sharing, deployment locations, complaints, policy violations, and community impact, with mandatory community engagement meetings and community advisory committees to assess equity impacts.

• Provides enforcement mechanisms including injunctive relief, declaratory relief, cost and attorney fee awards for prevailing plaintiffs, criminal penalties as a class 1 misdemeanor for knowing violations, and whistleblower protections for employees reporting violations.