Resident challenges Manteno's Flock camera program over cost and privacy

Maura (Mara) Kanopka, a college student and Manteno resident, told the board she found errors in earlier statements about the program and presented crime and cost figures she said undermine the cameras' value. "From August 2019 to now, there have been 3 motor vehicle thefts only in 2019, 0 human trafficking cases, 0 identity theft cases, and 0 kidnapping and abduction cases," she said, citing the FBI Crime Data Explorer. She said the town has eight cameras in use since 2020 and questioned whether the cameras would be used mostly to record innocuous activity: "What flock is catching is your children on bikes."