Kickoff: Following last year’s vote on the MovEBR tax proposal, Mayor Sharon Weston Broome will announce the official beginning of the billion-dollar effort today with a kickoff event at 5:30 p.m. at Baton Rouge Community College B Ardendale Campus. The city-parish is expected to reveal the official website and give disadvantaged businesses a chance to connect with contract managers for the project.
Input wanted: The Louisiana Office of Community Development is hosting a public hearing on Wednesday to get input on the state’s draft Action Plan for spending $1.2 billion in Community Development Block Grant Mitigation funds. The plan includes proposed projects, data collection, modeling and policy measures that advance the long-term resilience objectives of the Louisiana Watershed Initiative. The hearing will start at 1:30 p.m. in House Committee Room 5 at the Louisiana State Capitol.Â
Hidden ears: Google is restarting a practice in which human contractors listen to and transcribe some voice commands people give to the company’s artificial intelligence system, Assistant. But this time Google is taking steps to make sure people know what they are agreeing to. The company suspended its transcription practices after more than 1,000 recordings were leaked to the media in Belgium this summer. Critics have said users didn’t fully understand what they were agreeing to because Google’s language was unclear. Amazon, Apple and Facebook have used similar practices. Read the full story.Â
