Executive order No. 78 (St. Louis)

• Authority: St. Louis, MO
• Parent authority: Local governments
• Jurisdiction: United States
• Collections: U.S. state and local documents
• Most recent activity: Enacted
• Most recent activity date: 2024-02-23

Risk subdomain coverage

Good coverage — Comprehensive governance measures or mitigations with clear procedures relating to the risk subdomain are explicitly described.

• Compromise of privacy
• Disinformation, surveillance, and influence at scale
• Governance failure
• Lack of transparency or interpretability

Minimal coverage — Brief mention but no specific mitigations, recommendations or governance measures relating to the risk subdomain are described.

• AI system security vulnerabilities
• Lack of capability or robustness

All other risk subdomains had no coverage in this document.

Risk Coverage Summary

The document primarily addresses privacy and security risks (2.1, 2.2), malicious actor risks (4.1), governance structures (6.5), and system safety concerns (7.3, 7.4). It focuses on surveillance technology oversight, data protection, and transparency requirements for law enforcement AI use. Coverage is concentrated in privacy protection, security vulnerabilities, and governance mechanisms.

Sector coverage

Good coverage — Comprehensive governance measures or mitigations with clear procedures relating to the sector are explicitly described.

• Public Administration (excl. National Security)

All other sectors had no coverage in this document.

Sectors Summary

This executive order primarily governs AI and surveillance technology use within the Public Administration sector, specifically law enforcement activities conducted by the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department. The governance is highly specific to public safety and criminal justice functions.

Legislative Status

Hard Law

Legislative Status Summary

This is a binding executive order issued by the Mayor of St. Louis with mandatory requirements, enforcement mechanisms, and compliance obligations for the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department.

Actors

Proposer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: Mayor Tishaura O. Jones; City of St. Louis
• Summary: The executive order is explicitly issued by Mayor Tishaura O. Jones as the chief executive of the City of St. Louis, exercising mayoral authority to establish governance requirements for city agencies.

Target

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor, AI_Deployer
• Entities: St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department (SLMPD); Surveillance technology vendors; Artificial intelligence technology vendors
• Summary: The order primarily targets SLMPD as the law enforcement agency deploying surveillance and AI technologies. It also imposes obligations on vendors providing these technologies to SLMPD, making them secondary targets of the governance requirements.

Enforcer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: Director of the Department of Public Safety; Board of Aldermen's Committee on Public Safety; City's Information Technology Services Agency
• Summary: The Director of the Department of Public Safety receives compliance reports and oversees implementation. The Board of Aldermen's Committee on Public Safety receives annual transparency reports. The IT Services Agency provides consultation on technology purchases.

Monitor

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: Board of Aldermen's Committee on Public Safety; Police Commissioner
• Summary: The Board of Aldermen's Committee on Public Safety receives annual reports on surveillance technology use. The Police Commissioner is responsible for preparing and submitting these transparency reports, effectively monitoring SLMPD's compliance with the order.

AI Lifecycle Stages

Lifecycle stages covered by the documents, as defined in the OECD Framework for the Classification of AI Systems

• Plan and Design
• Collect and Process Data
• Verify and Validate
• Deploy
• Operate and Monitor

AI Lifecycle Summary

The document primarily addresses the Deploy and Operate and Monitor stages of the AI lifecycle, with some coverage of Plan and Design through policy requirements. It focuses heavily on operational governance, transparency reporting, data retention, and ongoing monitoring of surveillance and AI technologies used by law enforcement.

Technical Scope

Terms relating to technical scope that are mentioned or implicitly referenced in the document

• AI Systems

Technical Scope Summary

The document explicitly defines and covers both AI systems and surveillance technology. It addresses artificial intelligence used for criminal intelligence purposes and various surveillance technologies including biometric, behavioral, and location tracking systems. The document does not mention frontier AI, general purpose AI, foundation models, generative AI, predictive AI, open-weight models, or compute thresholds.