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County OKs two-year Block Safety vehicle-search system; commissioners question privacy safeguards
Summary
The Muskegon County board approved a two-year, roughly $49,000 agreement to use Block Safety vehicle-still searches across participating agencies; commissioners pressed the sheriff on data retention, machine‑learning use and access controls.
Muskegon County commissioners on Tuesday authorized a two-year agreement with Block Safety to adopt an integrated vehicle-targeting system countywide, a tool the sheriff described as a network of cameras that captures still photos of vehicles and shares hot-list hits with participating agencies.
"These are cameras that will be placed in strategic locations throughout the County," Sheriff Michael Fulton said. "The system itself, it will not tell us who the driver is. It does not tell us the registration of the vehicle.…
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