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Resident raises Flock ALPR privacy concerns; city staff says sharing options are off and contract is being wound down
Summary
A resident told Campbell council she found hundreds of Flock ALPR searches with no justification and urged the city to shut down Flock cameras; staff replied that sharing options are turned off, the city is not sharing data outside California or with federal agencies, and that staff is transitioning off the Flock network to an in‑house system.
At the start of the Feb. 3 meeting, resident Laura Reese urged the City Council to shut down Flock automated license‑plate reader (ALPR) cameras, move cloud‑stored data to a locally hosted database, purge data older than 30 days, and create a technology oversight committee after she said her audit search showed roughly half of 13,000 searches had no justification.
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