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Residents Demand Pensacola End Police Contract with Flock Over Privacy, Misuse Concerns
Summary
Dozens of Pensacola residents urged the City Council to terminate a police contract with Flock, an AI-driven license-plate and vehicle-surveillance company, saying the system risks privacy, enables misuse by other agencies and was approved without public input.
Dozens of Pensacola residents told the City Council on Jan. 15 that the city should cancel a recently signed contract with Flock, an AI-powered license-plate–reading and vehicle-tracking vendor, saying the system threatens residents’ privacy and could be misused by federal agencies and local officers.
"This technology presents a serious risk to all of our privacy and civil liberties," said Sarah Brummet, a Pensacola resident, during the Leroy Boyd public comment forum. "Pensacola can and should terminate its contract with Flock."
Speakers across multiple public-comment periods described cases from other cities in which Flock data was reportedly shared with federal immigration authorities or used to search for sensitive movements. D'Shawn Mackenzie said license-plate readers had been…
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