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Woodland residents urge council to suspend Flock Safety contract amid audit claims
Summary
Multiple Woodland residents told the City Council that audit logs and federal access to Flock Safety license-plate reader data justify pausing the city’s contract and turning off cameras until data-sharing and security concerns are resolved.
Dozens of residents pressed the Woodland City Council on Feb. 17 to suspend its contract with Flock Safety and shut off automated license-plate readers after a series of community audits and media reports, saying the city was not given the full picture before a recent contract extension.
The most detailed critique came from Joaquin Ortiz, who said his public-records requests and an audit of Woodland’s Flock system showed “In January alone, there were over 500,000 searches of Woodland’s flock cameras,” and that the Woodland Police Department accounted for 424 of those searches, about 4.08% of the total. Ortiz said the remainder of searches were performed by hundreds of other organizations and cited Mountain View’s recent suspension of its Flock program as a cautionary example.
Why it matters: Speakers argued that the scale of searches,…
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