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Resident urges Oro Valley to end contract with Flock Safety automated license-plate readers
Summary
During call to audience, resident Sean Glaser urged the council to terminate the town's contract with Flock Safety, saying automated license-plate readers track innocent residents and citing other Arizona jurisdictions that have canceled such contracts.
During the meeting's public-comment period, Oro Valley resident Sean Glaser urged the town to terminate its contract with Flock Safety, a company that operates automated license-plate readers.
"In other words, innocent law-abiding citizens are being tracked without cause," Glaser told council. He said the system retains images and plate data on a rolling 30-day window that enables retroactive searches and that the data is shared across many agencies in Arizona, allowing out-of-community access to Oro Valley residents’ travel patterns. He noted that Flagstaff, Sedona and South Tucson had canceled their contracts and that other jurisdictions were terminating theirs or reconsidering participation.
Glaser framed his remarks as a privacy appeal: "Privacy is a fundamental right... You cannot trade a unit of privacy for a unit of security as if they were currency." He concluded by urging council to terminate the town's contract with Flock Safety.
The council did not respond substantively during call to audience, per Arizona open-meeting law limits on council responses to matters raised during that period.
