Artificial intelligence cameras will not be attached to garbage trucks – looking for overgrown and neglected property – in Huntsville for the foreseeable future.
That is because the city has pulled a proposed contract from a company that would afix them to the trucks from the Fiscal 2026 budget. The budget and the proposed three-year, $972,200 contract with City Detect were to be voted on at the Huntsville City Council’s Sept. 25 meeting. City Detect is a company that provides an AI-powered software platform designed to identify potential code violations and public works issues.
“Quite frankly, we need to educate people a little bit better on it,” Mayor Tommy Battle said during Thursday’s council meeting. “We need to let people know exactly what it’s going to do, what the ramifications are, what the propensity is for their ability to actually take pictures with it, what exactly they are taking pictures of and how tightly we’re going to be able to hold on with that information.”…