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Resident urges Oro Valley to terminate Flock Safety ALPR contract, citing privacy concerns
Summary
During call to audience, resident Sean Glaser urged the council to end the town’s contract with Flock Safety (automated license-plate readers), arguing the technology enables broad tracking across agencies and threatens residents’ privacy. No formal council action followed the comment.
At the start of the April 8 meeting, Oro Valley resident Sean Glaser addressed the council during call to audience to urge termination of the town’s contract with Flock Safety, the vendor that provides automated license-plate-reader cameras used for law enforcement investigations.
Glaser argued the system photographs people and vehicles at a distance, stores data on a 30-day rolling window and enables retrospective analysis of travel patterns. He said those patterns are accessible by dozens of outside agencies and that the system effectively tracks residents without individualized cause. “This allows for retroactive data analysis and people tracking... innocent law-abiding citizens are being tracked without cause,” he said, and urged the council to terminate the town’s contract with the company.
The mayor closed call to audience and the item moved to presentations. Council did not take action in response to the public comment during the meeting.
Context: council members later discussed public-safety tools and the town’s Code Red notification system during staff reports; no staff presentation or council directive related to ALPR procurement or termination was made on April 8.
