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Residents urge council to pause Flock license-plate reader purchase, warn of surveillance risks
Summary
Public commenters opposed a proposed license-plate-reader / networked camera system (Flock), warning it creates a searchable statewide database and risks privacy and misuse; a former county network administrator urged the council to adopt restrictive contract language (ACLU model) and council deferred the item to Jan. 6 for further legal review.
Several residents addressed the council during the public-comment period about a proposal to install license-plate-reader cameras and join a networked system (Flock).
One speaker described the proposal as "mass surveillance" and urged council to "end this madness tonight." Madison Hill, who identified professional experience as a network administrator for…
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