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Flock Safety presents license-plate readers; residents raise privacy and surveillance concerns
Summary
A Flock Safety representative told the Orange Park Council LPR cameras capture rear-vehicle photos, that partner agencies own data, and that images are deleted after 30 days; residents and privacy advocates pressed for independent audits, limits on data sharing, and local controls under Florida law.
A representative from Flock Safety, addressed later in the meeting as "Mister McCormick," outlined the company's license-plate reader (LPR) camera system and told the Orange Park Town Council the cameras produce point-in-time photos of the back of vehicles that municipalities, not the company, own and control. He said agencies upload on a case-by-case "hot list" for investigations and that images are retained for 30 days before being "hard deleted." He described audit logs, multi-factor authentication for user access and a baseline accuracy rate of about 94 percent for plate reads.
The presentation emphasized local control over sharing: communities decide whether to share data with neighboring towns, counties, states or a national lookup. McCormick said Flock does not sell photos, does not…
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