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Speakers urge council to pause or reject Flock surveillance expansion, flagging accuracy and civil‑liberties risks
Summary
Residents and at least one councilmember raised concerns about expanding Flock and related vendor contracts, citing studies of low confirmable accuracy, risks to prosecutions, ICE access to data, and calls for oversight hearings on ShotSpotter/Flock.
Multiple public commenters urged Cleveland City Council to reconsider or pause expansion of automated surveillance technologies, including Flock and ShotSpotter, and to examine civil‑liberties and accuracy concerns.
Matthew Ahn testified that Flock differs from ShotSpotter because "there is no human in the middle to ensure that the alert is accurate" and warned that vendor-claimed accuracy rates are overstated. Ahn cited academic and…
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