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Council approves short-term Flock contract amendment direction amid heated debate over data access and sanctuary policy
Summary
After hours of public comment and council deliberation, Richmond directed staff to pursue a mixed approach: continue procurement while negotiating contract amendments with Flock Safety that include unauthorized-sharing remedies and stronger data safeguards; motion passed with several dissenting votes.
The council debated and then voted on how to proceed with the city’s Flock Safety CCTV/ALPR system after a disclosure that a Flock feature had made Richmond license-plate data accessible beyond initially intended boundaries.
RPD Chief Simmons said he had turned Richmond’s Flock system off on Nov. 19 after discovering a two-way "national search" function that allowed outside agencies to query full license plates; he said the feature was cut off and later changes have been made (SEG 1920–1928, SEG 1931–1935). Flock public-affairs manager Lily Hoe told council that customers own their data and…
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