Resident raises legal, privacy concerns about ALPR (Flock) camera during public comment

During public comments a resident, a Navy veteran who worked in signals intelligence, asked council to reconsider deployment of a commercial automated‑license‑plate reader (ALPR) camera installed near Riverside Park and identified concerns about privacy, data retention and legal exposure. The speaker described the Flock Safety ALPR system as a device that captures license plates and vehicle images and stores location‑time traces that can be used to build movement patterns over time; he cited ongoing litigation in other jurisdictions and Carpenter v. United States (2018) as a legal context for requiring warrants for historical location data. The resident said Flock retains data for about 30 days on private servers and urged the city to shorten retention or change the vendor arrangement. A police representative responded that the department’s policy uses a 30‑day retention standard and said the system assisted in a recent shooting investigation. Council did not take action at the meeting but was presented with the public comment and the police brief response. Ending: Council or staff did not announce immediate policy changes; the public comment prompted council members to ask questions about retention length and whether data are stored by a private company.