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Everett residents urge ban on license-plate reader cameras; city officials point to safeguards
Summary
Residents and civic groups urged the Everett City Council to prohibit Flock-style license-plate reader cameras, citing privacy and public-records concerns. City staff and the police chief defended current controls, pointed to a public transparency dashboard and offered a future briefing.
Janice Green, speaking for the 1 Voice Snohomish County coalition, urged the Everett City Council to adopt an ordinance prohibiting the acquisition, operation or renewal of Flock automatic license-plate reader (ALPR) cameras, saying the devices amount to “mass data collection” that catalogs residents’ movements and can be disclosed under the state Public Records Act.
"This is a mass data collection on the general public, not targeted policing," Janice Green said, and she told the council a state trial court has ruled that data collected by…
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