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Fort Collins residents urge pause on Flock cameras, propose ballot measure for transparency and voter approval
Summary
Multiple residents urged the Fort Collins City Council to pause use of Flock/ALPR cameras, cited contract language and audit data suggesting external access, and introduced a Northern Colorado Privacy Coalition ballot initiative requiring pre-installation transparency reports and voter approval; city staff pledged follow-up by May.
Dozens of residents used the public-comment period at the Fort Collins City Council to press officials over the city’s contract with Flock and the broader deployment of automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras.
Marge Norskog, a District 2 resident, told the council she reviewed Flock network audit files and found that, before access was limited to Colorado, organizations outside the state made hundreds of thousands of requests to Fort Collins camera data. She said that while the city’s contract states the city owns its data, the access logs suggest the city “does not control it,” and she urged the council to halt data collection until the agreement and governing laws for ALPRs can be reassessed.
Janice Ord (District 6) read clauses from the master services agreement, citing…
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