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Thornton residents press council over Flock camera data, security and immigration concerns
Summary
Dozens of residents urged Thornton City Council to halt or more tightly regulate proposed Flock automatic license-plate readers, citing technical security gaps, audit-log evidence of external searches and federal access risks; council members said they value the public-safety tool but pledged more oversight and review of alternatives.
Dozens of Thornton residents pressed city leaders on Feb. 10 to slow or more tightly regulate a planned roll-out of Flock automatic license-plate reader (ALPR) cameras, citing security vulnerabilities, opaque data-sharing arrangements and potential harms to immigrant residents.
"Encryption is useless if access controls fail and post-hoc audits are not a replacement for security as a feature," said Jacob Wilson, an information-security professional, summarizing his independent analysis that he said showed Thornton PD data had been exposed and that audit logs point to account compromises. "When we don't store our data and retain the keys, then we can't prevent this from happening." (Jacob Wilson, public comment.)
Several residents told the council they had direct access-log evidence they said showed searches performed by agencies with ties to federal immigration enforcement. "We were told that the…
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