Ille-et-Vilaine's Register of Algorithmic Processing — 91 Departmental Algorithms Published After a Civil-Society Complaint

The Ille-et-Vilaine departmental council (Brittany) put its first inventory of algorithmic processing online at the end of May 2024. It lists 91 algorithms used in the department's missions, from the calculation of personal-autonomy allowances paid to care homes and the routing of RSA beneficiaries to the right local mission, to internal tools such as IT-equipment allocation.
The publication followed a request from the association La Quadrature du Net, which questioned the department's compliance with the 2016 'République numérique' (Lemaire) law. That law obliges public bodies, including local authorities above 3,500 inhabitants, to inventory their main algorithms, flag algorithmic decisions and explain how they work; reporting says the inventory duty had largely remained a dead letter, with only Antibes, Nantes, Paris and the Lille metropolis having tried.
Each entry has a descriptive sheet covering context, legal basis, purpose, data processed, degree of automation and impact on individuals. The sheets do not explain how the algorithms work and no source code has been released, though citizens can now request it. The department's data protection officer led the work with a consultant, noting that mobilising all services in a body of more than 4,000 staff was the main challenge and that many 'algorithms' are simply rule sets or spreadsheets. An annual update is planned, with HR items such as holiday vouchers and canteen aid to be added.
Caveats: no outcome evidence exists beyond the publication itself, there is no sanction for non-compliance, and source-code disclosure remains undecided.

Read the full analysis: https://acteurspublics.fr/articles/le-departement-dille-et-vilaine-fait-toute-la-lumiere-sur-ses-algorithmes