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Resident asks Port Orange not to renew Flock Safety camera contract, calls for security audit
Summary
A resident urged the council to end the city’s agreement with Flock Safety, saying the cameras act as continuous AI surveillance, citing $103,000 in taxpayer spending and requesting an audit and an early termination vote; no council action on the contract was recorded in the meeting.
At the public comment portion of the meeting, Angela Leduc of Herbert Street asked the council not to renew the city’s contract with Flock Safety for Falcon cameras and requested that the city audit the cameras’ software and vulnerabilities.
Leduc said the city entered a two‑year agreement in 2022 for nine Falcon cameras, that the contract renewed in 2024 and "it's set to expire this year," and that "the taxpayers have spent at least $103,000 over the last 4 years to be unlawfully surveilled." She described the devices as "AI‑powered surveillance machines" that "capture every passing vehicle and person and transmit that data to a private corporate cloud that state and federal agencies can search at will." She also urged the council to vote to early terminate the contract and remove the cameras from the city.
Leduc cited court decisions to frame privacy concerns: she referenced United States v. Jones and Carpenter v. United States and argued that continuous location tracking should require a warrant. She also asked the city to audit vulnerabilities after a third‑party report that some cameras were live streaming to the open internet.
The transcript records Leduc's request and technical framing but does not include an immediate staff response or a motion by council to audit or terminate the contract during the meeting. Another speaker, Rebecca Gatton of the Port Orange South Daytona Chamber of Commerce, then offered brief event announcements during the public participation segment.
Because the city manager and staff did not announce an action on the Flock Safety contract in this meeting, the matter remains a public comment and a request for follow‑up rather than a council decision recorded on the transcript.
