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Residents urge Monroe council to pause Flock Safety camera program, citing privacy and security risks
Summary
Multiple Monroe residents urged the council to halt installation and deactivate recently placed Flock Safety ALPR cameras, citing privacy, cybersecurity vulnerabilities, cross-jurisdiction tracking, and costs; police said cameras were installed in the prior two weeks but not yet fully active.
Several Monroe residents used the meeting’s public-comment period on Jan. 27 to press the City Council to stop installing license-plate reading cameras provided by Flock Safety, arguing the devices threaten privacy and pose cybersecurity and cost risks.
Ben Laday, who lives in the Frylands neighborhood, said independent research shows widespread agency searches of ALPR databases and warned of “the spreading of mass surveillance throughout our communities.” Devin Kinison, a lifelong resident, said the cameras “feed to a national bit database with more than 80,000 cameras” and warned that a single misconfiguration or policy…
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