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What to Request Before a Technology Pilot Expands

A pre-expansion checklist for residents when a pilot program is presented as ready for wider deployment.

Pilots should produce measurable review material

If a locality wants to expand a pilot, it should be able to explain what happened during the pilot, what metrics were used, and what safeguards changed before expansion.

Residents should not have to treat expansion as automatic when the review material has not been published clearly.

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