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Resident urges New Prague to enable public audit logs for license-plate readers
Summary
At a brief New Prague City council meeting, resident Brian Paulson urged the police department to enable Flock’s public search-audit feature for the city’s automated license-plate readers to improve transparency. Council members questioned the police chief about uses, auditing and data access; the chief said audits are independent and the portal is voluntary.
Brian Paulson, a New Prague resident, asked the City Council to direct the police department to enable the public search-audit feature on the city’s Flock Surveillance portal for automated license-plate readers (ALPRs). “Enabling this feature would let residents see the system is being used strictly within legal limits,” Paulson said, citing portal statistics that showed roughly 27,000 vehicles scanned and 167 hot-list hits in the previous 30 days.
Paulson told the council the public-audit view is a one-time enablement offered by Flock that automatically publishes policy and aggregated statistics and can provide downloadable logs showing individual searches, reasons, case numbers and dates. He said other agencies…
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