The Legal Aid Society and police reform advocates have called on the City Council to vote Thursday to pass legislation that would require the NYPD to disclose how it uses facial recognition and other surveillance technologies to track New Yorkers, according to the Queens Daily Eagle.

The Public Oversight of Surveillance Technology Act would require the NYPD to create a “surveillance impact and use policy,” that would include “description and capabilities, rules, processes and guidelines, and any safeguards and security measures designed to protect the information collected.”

Facial recognition technology has been shown to misidentify people of color, especially women – a concern among public defenders throughout the city amidst the current controversy surrounding well-known discriminatory practices by the NYPD.

“As the NYPD continues to employ technologies and databases to police New Yorkers, we must ensure that the constitutional rights of the public are protected,” said Jerome Greco, supervising attorney of the Digital Forensics Unit at The Legal Aid Society in December.