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Residents urge Ridgecrest council to audit, reconsider Flock license-plate camera contract
Summary
Multiple residents urged the Ridgecrest City Council to review and put its Flock ALPR (license-plate recognition) contract on a future agenda, citing national cases they say show the technology's potential for misuse and privacy harms.
Public commenters pressed the Ridgecrest City Council on May 6 to scrutinize the city's contract with Flock, a vendor of license-plate reader cameras, saying the system had been misused in other jurisdictions and that the city should seek a vendor-specific compliance audit.
"Flock might as well advertise their services as a stalkers toolkit," said Michael Licitra, one of the first speakers in a lengthy public-comment period, summarizing dozens of cases he said demonstrated misuse of ALPR…
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