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Resident criticizes council's consideration of Flock license-plate system
Summary
A Mountlake Terrace resident urged the council to stop pursuing Flock Technologies' license-plate recognition system, calling it unconstitutional and warning of legal and civil-rights risks; the council did not take action on the comment.
Adam Sacae spoke during public comment on Oct. 2 to urge the Mountlake Terrace City Council to abandon consideration of a license-plate recognition system provided by Flock Technologies and to stop consulting neighboring police chiefs for support.
Sacae said he attended the prior meeting and was encouraged by residents' testimony opposing Flock, but criticized the council's next step to seek input from pro-Flock police chiefs. He told the council, "You are all elected to represent the people of Mountlake Terrace, not the Mountlake Terrace Police, not the police chiefs of neighboring towns." He listed a series of concerns, saying, among other assertions, "FLOC is unconstitutional" and that the company has a history of providing data to federal agencies he described as abusive.
Sacae said he believed the council was acting on behalf of police interests rather than resident concerns and warned the council that voters would remember their choices at election time.
Council members did not take action on the comment; the city manager acknowledged public comment and the meeting continued to the consent agenda.
