{"id":235291,"date":"2026-06-22T11:26:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T15:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/22\/council-notebook-council-adopts-ai-policy\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T15:42:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T19:42:04","slug":"council-notebook-council-adopts-ai-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/22\/council-notebook-council-adopts-ai-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Council Notebook: Council adopts AI Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.simcoereformer.ca\/news\/local-news\/tillsonburg-notebook-council-adopts-ai-policy\">Council Notebook: Council adopts AI Policy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.simcoereformer.ca\/news\/local-news\/tillsonburg-notebook-council-adopts-ai-policy\">https:\/\/www.simcoereformer.ca\/news\/local-news\/tillsonburg-notebook-council-adopts-ai-policy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-22 11:26:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.simcoereformer.ca\">www.simcoereformer.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Town of Tillsonburg has adopted its first artificial intelligence policy, creating guidelines for the use of AI by employees and council.<\/li>\n<li>The policy outlines specific AI uses, like summarizing presentations and drafting public content, but mandates all AI-generated content be reviewed by a staff member.<\/li>\n<li>Microsoft Co-Pilot will be used under this policy to maintain control over confidential data.<\/li>\n<li>The town will provide grants to Opid Technologies for a downtown move and to Kermar Properties for revitalizing the former Peavy Mart building.<\/li>\n<li>Tillsonburg town council has reduced residential development charges by 50% for three years.<\/li>\n<li>Ontario Limited (Euro-Ex Construction) has been awarded a contract for the reconstruction of the Rokeby Sideroad, with contributions from the town, Norfolk County, and its infrastructure reserve.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Council Notebook: Council adopts AI Policy https:\/\/www.simcoereformer.ca\/news\/local-news\/tillsonburg-notebook-council-adopts-ai-policy Publish Date: 2026-06-22 11:26:00 Source Domain: www.simcoereformer.ca The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":235292,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/nexus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/br-0313-sr-tillsonburg.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=288&h=216&sig=ODeR8bVnCWFy8ST7TgHeTA","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-235291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235293,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235291\/revisions\/235293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}