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Residents urge Evansville to review, end Flock Safety contract over privacy concerns
Summary
Multiple residents urged the council to end or review the city's Flock automated license-plate-reader contract, citing data-ownership changes, alleged security vulnerabilities and constitutional concerns about movement tracking.
Several residents raised concerns about Evansville’s contract with Flock Safety and the privacy implications of automated license-plate readers (ALPRs).
Adam Carey said the city should end the Flock contract and remove cameras, arguing the devices capture pedestrians and use AI to build month-long movement histories. "Flock's AOPRs were found to have at least 60 data vulnerabilities," Carey said, and he urged council members to meet with residents for a fuller briefing.
Olivia Latham summarized a February 16, 2026 update to Flock’s terms of service, saying the changes grant Flock a broader, perpetual license to use customer data and remove previous training-data protections; she offered to provide a written summary to the council. Bryson Pace said the deployment lacked transparency and called for an independent audit to verify Flock’s claims about crime reduction.
Speakers requested formal briefings and meetings with council members and city staff; no formal council action was recorded at the meeting.
