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Lapeer County public and ACLU urge caution as commissioners weigh Flock license-plate cameras
Summary
Residents, civil liberties advocates and several commissioners raised privacy, constitutional and contract concerns about a proposed Flock automatic license-plate reader contract; the board deferred a final vote for two weeks to seek clearer contract language and assurances.
Lapeer County commissioners heard extended public opposition and expert testimony Wednesday over a proposed contract to deploy Flock automatic license-plate readers (ALPRs), with officials postponing a final decision for two weeks.
The board convened a large public-comment block in which residents, including Maurice Freed of Mayfield Township, argued the cameras could amount to warrantless, dragging surveillance and raise Fourth Amendment and state-constitution concerns. Freed cited Carpenter v. United States and other recent cases to warn that long-term tracking of vehicle movements can constitute a search. Several commenters also raised data-breach and hacking risks.
Gabrielle Dresner, a policy strategist with the American Civil Liberties Union…
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