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Residents urge limits on license-plate readers and complain about county ditching in public comments
Summary
During public comment, a Brentwood Circle resident warned of widespread use of Flock license-plate readers and raised privacy and misuse concerns; another resident criticized county ditching that she says destroyed her yard and created mosquito issues. Commissioners offered staff follow-up.
Two residents spoke during the public-comment portion of the March 19 Glen County commission meeting about neighborhood-level concerns.
Ed Van Otter of Brentwood Circle said the county's Flock license-plate reader system had grown rapidly and raised privacy and public-safety concerns. "When one appears in public, one is subject to the gaze of fellow citizens at the expense of privacy," Van Otter said,…
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