It's about government transparency and the precedent that's being set. You may not care about parking enforcement (neither do I, really), but in 10 years time t

It's about government transparency and the precedent that's being set. You may not care about parking enforcement (neither do I, really), but in 10 years time this won't be the last thing ML is being used for. We're replacing systems that are readily obvious to anyone (uniformed human parking attendants) with algorithmic enforcement. The government has decided that we don't need to know how it works (source code and models) or what the flaws and externalities are (anonymized data on how it's used). Thus something we're paying for whose function was pretty obvious to anyone becomes a black box. This lack of transparency will become the norm unless it's opposed, and eventually you or your group will become the disproportionate target of some overzealous algorithm.