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Council pauses use of Flock Safety ALPRs and refers broader review to Public Safety Committee
Summary
After hours of public comment expressing privacy and civil‑liberties concerns, the City Council suspended use of Flock Safety cameras and referred a broader review of automated license‑plate readers to its Public Safety Committee; the council—s stop-order passed unanimously.
The Cambridge City Council voted to stop using Flock Safety license-plate‑reader cameras and all automated‑license‑plate‑reader (ALPR) technology currently in use until the City Council takes up and votes on the devices, and it referred a full review of ALPR deployment and contracts to the council—s Public Safety Committee.
The decision followed more than two hours of public comment and a lengthy council discussion in which civil liberties advocates, technologists and neighborhood residents urged the council to halt the project because of Flock—s nationwide data-sharing practices and because the company stores and shares ALPR data in a centralized database accessible to other agencies.
Speakers including Alex Matthews of…
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