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Supervisor urges sheriff to disable Flock cameras; chair and counsel say not an agenda item
Summary
A supervisor asked the board to request that the sheriff disable the county's Flock camera system pending research and legislation; corp counsel and the chair said the board could not act because the matter was not on the agenda and would violate open-meetings law.
Near the meeting’s end, a board member (speaker 13) raised surveillance concerns and asked the board to request the sheriff voluntarily turn off the county’s Flock cameras until the board could research the system and consider legislation.
The supervisor said they had legislative language prepared to remove the cameras and asked the board to ask the sheriff to “turn them off and side with individual liberty so we can do a little more research.” The chair and corporation counsel responded that the board could not take action because the topic was not on the published agenda and doing so would risk violating open-meetings law. Counsel noted that there are established procedures to place the issue on a future agenda for formal consideration.
The chair sustained the rule that the board could not conduct business not on the agenda; the supervisor said they planned to place the topic on the next meeting's agenda. The meeting adjourned after the exchange.
No directive to the sheriff or formal board action on the camera system was recorded in the minutes; the request remained an unresolved public appeal.
