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Olympia residents urge council to end Flock camera contract; study session set for Dec. 2
Summary
Several residents called on the Olympia City Council to terminate its contract with Flock and remove the company’s cameras, saying the system enables biometric profiling and risks subpoenas of location data; the council scheduled a Dec. 2 study session for staff and the police to respond.
Several residents urged the Olympia City Council on Nov. 25 to end the city’s contract with Flock and remove the company’s street cameras, saying the system gathers sensitive data and creates privacy and civil-rights risks.
"This is a company that's operating a nationwide automated biometric and racial profiling system," said Bill Cotter, who identified himself as a responsible-AI expert and a former Department of Homeland Security employee. Cotter cited Flock patents that, he said, describe algorithms for classifying gender, race and clothing and for estimating…
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