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Mountain View council moves to end Flock ALPR contract after staff finds unauthorized lookups
Summary
Council voted unanimously Feb. 24 to authorize termination of the city's automated-license-plate-reader (ALPR) contract with Flock Safety after police discovered nationwide and statewide lookup functions had been enabled without Mountain View PD's knowledge; speaker testimony and public comment urged reimbursement and legal action.
Mountain View's City Council on Feb. 24 authorized the city manager to terminate the city's automated license-plate reader contract with Flock Safety after police found that vendor-enabled "nationwide lookup" and a similar statewide function had been enabled without the department's knowledge.
Police Chief Mike Canfield told council that Mountain View's pilot had been built with privacy-oriented settings (rear-only plate images, no facial recognition, 30-day retention and a required sign-off process for outside access) but staff later discovered access outside of the city's policies. "When we pressed Flock about how it could have happened, they told us that they no longer had records for how the system was turned on or how it was turned off," Canfield said, adding that he "made the decision…
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