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Residents and advocates urge Tompkins County to pause Flock ALPR use and adopt surveillance safeguards
Summary
Public commenters at the July 15 legislative meeting urged the county to pause deployment of Flock automated license plate readers (ALPRs), citing national reports of data sharing with federal immigration authorities and requesting a formal surveillance data policy based on ACLU model language.
Several residents and civil‑rights advocates urged Tompkins County legislators on July 15 to pause current and future use of Flock automated license plate readers (ALPRs) and to adopt a comprehensive surveillance-data policy.
Dirk Trache and Katie Church were among speakers who described national reporting and Freedom of Information Act records that they said show Flock data has been used by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other federal agencies in other jurisdictions. Trache summarized reporting from media…
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