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Council delays vote on Flock license-plate readers after resident concerns; moves item to second reading
Summary
Painesville police outlined a proposed three‑year Flock license-plate reader contract funded by the police levy; after questions from council and requests that residents be given time to review, council moved the resolution to second reading and did not finalize the contract.
Painesville police presented a proposal on Feb. 17 to lease Flock license-plate reader cameras under a 36‑month proprietary contract funded from the police levy, but council declined to adopt the resolution that night and moved it to second reading to allow public review.
Toby, a police department representative, described the system as a networked, proprietary license-plate reader service that runs plates against NCIC and other law-enforcement databases and issues alerts — for example, for stolen vehicles, amber alerts,…
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