Establishes the County of Santa Cruz AI policy for responsible generative AI use by employees. Prohibits PII input and impactful decisions with AI. Requires compliance with data privacy laws, ethical use, informed consent, transparency, and authorized tools. Encourages training.
Analysis summaries, actor details, and coverage mappings were LLM-classified and may contain errors.
This is an internal corporate policy document establishing appropriate use guidelines for County of Santa Cruz employees. It lacks formal legislative authority, enforcement mechanisms with legal penalties, and binding legal obligations characteristic of hard law.
The document has good coverage of approximately 6-8 subdomains, with strong focus on privacy compromise (2.1), security vulnerabilities (2.2), false information (3.1), unfair discrimination (1.1), overreliance (5.1), and lack of transparency (7.4). Coverage is concentrated in privacy/security, misinformation, discrimination, and human-computer interaction domains.
This is an internal policy governing AI use within County of Santa Cruz government operations. The primary sector governed is Public Administration excluding National Security, as it applies to county government employees across various departments and functions.
The document primarily focuses on the Deploy and Operate and Monitor lifecycle stages, with some coverage of Build and Use Model through guidance on tool selection and usage practices. It does not substantially address planning, data collection, or verification/validation stages.
The document explicitly mentions AI tools and generative AI throughout. It specifically focuses on generative AI tools and systems but does not mention frontier AI, general purpose AI, task-specific AI, foundation models, predictive AI, open-weight models, or compute thresholds.
County of Santa Cruz; Information Services Department
The County of Santa Cruz is the issuing authority for this policy, as indicated by the document title and throughout the text. The Information Services Department appears to have a role in policy implementation and tool approval.
Information Services Department (ISD); supervisors; departments
The Information Services Department has authority to approve AI tools and receive reports of concerns. Supervisors and departments have enforcement roles through monitoring and establishing additional rules.
County of Santa Cruz; Information Services Department
The County and ISD are responsible for ongoing monitoring and evaluation of AI products to ensure compliance with security and risk management criteria. The policy also establishes regular review processes.
County of Santa Cruz employees; contractors; third-party individuals or entities
The policy explicitly applies to all County employees, contractors, and third-party entities who have access to or use generative AI technologies on behalf of the organization. These actors are both users and deployers of AI tools in their work.
10 subdomains (5 Good, 5 Minimal)