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Residents urge Wooster Council to refuse cooperation with ICE and question Flock surveillance contract
Summary
Eight residents urged Wooster City Council on March 16 to adopt policies limiting local cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and demanded answers — or rescission — of the city's contract with Flock surveillance cameras, citing privacy and civil‑liberties concerns.
Multiple residents used the public-comment period at the March 16 Wooster City Council meeting to urge the council to prevent local cooperation with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and to answer questions about the city’s contract with Flock surveillance cameras.
Reverend Walter Clark, minister at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Wayne County, said cooperation with ICE would "diminish the local reputation" of Wooster police and erode community trust, making routine policing more difficult. He urged the council to avoid arrangements that align local law enforcement with federal tactics he characterized as…
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