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Commissioners,
Kitsap, one of our neighboring counties, has been developing their own AI policy (1293.pdf, attached), which is up for consideration on their next agenda.
Please review it (only 10 pages) to see what your counterparts are considering.
Not surprisingly, ChatGPT’s analysis found the Kitsap policy to be similar to the one proposed for Jefferson County in both strengths and weaknesses.
It seems awfully wasteful for our state’s 39 counties to each develop their own versions of an AI policy.
Washington’s 295 public school districts share resources through WSSDA, which has staff (including legal) to develop and maintain several hundred policies that are common to, and used
by, (almost) all school districts. Why aren’t the 39 counties using WSAC in a similar manner?
I don’t think counties, certainly not the smaller ones, can afford to continue the “not invented here” approach to the development and support of major policies such as AI.
For example, Jefferson County chose to create*** its own Public Records Act Compliance Policy <https://co.jefferson.wa.us/DocumentCenter/View/15574/2022-02-28-Jefferson-County-Public-Records-Act-Comp
liance-Policy> rather than adopting by reference (with extensions) the Model Rules created and maintained by our state’s Attorney General. Now, as a result, our county’s PRA policy
is once again out-of-date.
Please consider increased collaboration with your counterparts in other counties.
It’s not about giving up autonomy – it’s just more practical to not re-invent the wheel.
Thank you,
Tom Thiersch
***Created October 27, 1997 and revised/replaced March 5, 2001, November 18, 2002, June 27, 2006, May 29, 2018, November 22, 2021, and February 28, 2022