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Residents press Woodland council over Flock license‑plate reader data and audits
Summary
Several Woodland residents urged the council to terminate or further restrict use of Flock Safety license‑plate readers, citing audits they say show data sharing with federal and out‑of‑state agencies and inadequate enforcement or auditing by local police.
Multiple residents used the public-comment period Tuesday to press the Woodland City Council to reconsider the police department’s use of Flock Safety license‑plate reader cameras.
Speakers described community audits and public-record findings they said show frequent, and sometimes opaque, external searches of ALPR data. One speaker cited an audit that she said showed about 15,000 federal‑agency searches and millions of out‑of‑state requests; another described search keywords and terms that, she said, indicate monitoring of protests or other political activity.
Shawnice Lambeau said internal policies requiring review and audit were not followed and that the department appeared to have granted many outside requests automatically; she urged the council to halt the sharing and use of resources by outside agencies. Other residents described examples from other jurisdictions that they said demonstrate similar patterns of data access.
Council members thanked the speakers for the information; no formal action was taken at this meeting, though council members discussed the county animal-services presentation later in the agenda. The council did not vote on any change to the city’s arrangement with its ALPR vendor at Tuesday’s meeting.
