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Resident warns council about 'Flock' cameras, cybersecurity and revolving‑door concerns
Summary
A public commenter urged Cleveland City Council to pause further surveillance purchases, saying license-plate readers were installed without public notice, raising cybersecurity and revolving-door conflict concerns and criticizing proposed spending on gunshot-detection technology.
A resident told Cleveland City Council on Nov. 24 that the city installed nearly 100 Flock automatic license-plate readers without public conversation and urged the council to halt further surveillance spending until security and oversight questions are answered.
“Terry Wong” (introduced by the presiding officer as from Ward 3) said the first Flock device appeared in August 2022 and "within 2 months, nearly 100 had settled across the city tracking our movements without a single public conversation." Wong warned of cybersecurity defects in some devices —…
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