Antibes Juan-les-Pins' Algorithm Inventory — A Mid-Sized French City's Six-Monthly Register Under the Lemaire Law

Antibes Juan-les-Pins (Alpes-Maritimes) began its algorithm inventory in July 2020 and published the first list on data.gouv.fr and the regional Datasud portal in January 2021, updating it every six months. It is one of the few French municipalities to apply the 2016 'République numérique' (Lemaire) law, which requires authorities above 3,500 inhabitants to inventory the algorithms behind individual decisions.
The inventory lists 8 processing operations (reporting itemises 7): the tourist tax, the only automated one; crèche enrolment and school and after-school activities; driving-licence financial aid; and association subsidy requests. Waste, housing and mobility are not covered because they are competences of the agglomeration. Each entry states the competence, legal basis, data used and source (some data comes from the family-benefits agency CAF), collection method and decision procedure. Work followed Etalab's 2021 guidance and was done by consulting each department; the innovation and open-data lead, a trained jurist, warns that individual decisions based on an algorithm must say so or risk nullity.
The city is candid about limits: the tables contain no mathematical formulas, some criteria come from business software whose calculations are not visible, the open question of source-code disclosure is unresolved, and the city can see only about 100 views and 40 downloads across sites. Main current beneficiaries are internal services, which now share one up-to-date procedure description.

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