Residents urge council to reconsider $4.1M Flock camera program over privacy fears
Public commenters told Laredo City Council the Flock license‑plate and AI camera rollout risks mass surveillance and civil‑liberties harms; councilmembers said staff and police will provide a fuller briefing and acknowledged the program is largely state‑funded.
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Elizabeth Salazar, a resident who said she had researched the technology, told the City Council the Flock cameras now being placed around Laredo carry surveillance risks and would collect continuous license‑plate, vehicle and (she said) person‑level data. “These flood cameras are continuously recording ... reading every license plate it catches,” Salazar said, adding the cameras use artificial intelligence to classify vehicles and people and could be misused without strong controls.
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