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 "municipality": "Kitchener",
 "status_type": "City",
 "jurisdiction": "Ontario",
 "country": "CA",
 "topic": "ai-policy",
 "label": "AI use policy",
 "status": "uncertain",
 "last_verified": "2026-05-26",
 "official_website": "http://www.kitchener.ca",
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   "is_official": false,
   "title": "Kitchener looks to use AI to 'deliver better service' at city hall (CBC News)",
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   "status": "n/a",
   "adopted_date": null,
   "document_url": "https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/waterloo-artificial-intelligence-institute-digital-kitchener-innovation-lab-1.7117661",
   "summary": "Reports a council presentation by University of Waterloo AI Institute and Digital Kitchener Innovation Lab on generative-AI uses (resident chatbot for bylaws/zoning). Exploratory; no adopted governing policy.",
   "captured_at": "2026-06-01T05:55:24+00:00",
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   "primary": false,
   "is_official": false,
   "title": "Ask a 'needle-in-a-haystack question' and Kitchener's new AI-powered website will answer (CBC News)",
   "document_type": "news",
   "status": "n/a",
   "adopted_date": null,
   "document_url": "https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/city-of-kitchener-kwartha-lakes-city-website-search-feature-ai-9.7045668",
   "summary": "Reports Kitchener deployed an AI-powered website search tool and that city staff are drafting an AI-use policy, incorporating council agendas/minutes/reports. No adopted governing document yet.",
   "captured_at": "2026-06-01T05:55:24+00:00",
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   "capture_note": "fetch failed/blocked; not snapshotted"
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 "source": "https://govanswers.org/ca/on/kitchener/ai-policy/"
}