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Residents demand public forum and oversight after council debate over Flock ALPRs
Summary
Dozens of Thornton residents urged the City Council to hold a formal public hearing and tighten oversight of the city's Flock automated license-plate reader (ALPR) system, raising privacy, data-sharing and auditability concerns; councilmembers exchanged competing views on public safety and transparency but took no formal action to stop or expand the contract.
Dozens of Thornton residents used the meeting's public-comment period to press the City Council for a formal public forum and stronger oversight of the city's Flock automated license-plate reader (ALPR) system.
Jacob Wilson, of Ward 4, opened the sequence of surveillance-focused comments by urging the council to "stop allowing the loudest voice in the room to dictate our security posture" and to adopt a public hearing and community-driven recommendations for continued use and oversight. Chris Cook, a Ward 4 resident and technology professional, proposed three concrete safeguards: require judicial warrants for queries (with narrow emergency carve-outs), prohibit sharing ALPR data with outside entities, and create an independent third-party auditor…
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