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Resident raises legal concern over city'vendor LPR license in public comment
Summary
During audience participation a resident alleged the city's contract with Flock Safety grants the vendor a perpetual worldwide license to use license-plate-reader data for product improvement, and said that may conflict with Idaho law limiting non'law'enforcement uses of LPR data; the council did not immediately resolve the concern.
During the meeting's audience participation period on June 15, resident Tyler Kane told the council he believes the city's agreement with vendor Flock Safety includes contract language contrary to Idaho law governing license-plate-reader (LPR) data.
Kane told the council the Idaho statute (cited as Idaho Code 49'14'32 in his remarks) restricts LPR data to law'enforcement uses. He said a clause in the city's Flock Safety agreement (section 4.1, as he quoted it) grants the vendor a "perpetual worldwide license to use LPR data to support and improve Flock's products and services," which he described as a commercial use.
"That contract is in violation of Idaho State Law," Kane said in his three'minute comment, urging the council to treat it as a tort or otherwise address it.
No immediate legal response or directive was recorded in the meeting minutes; the mayor thanked Kane for his comment and moved on to the next agenda item. If the council wishes to pursue the allegation, next steps would typically include referral to city legal staff for a contract review and a report back to council.
The city's contract language and the legal question Kane raised were recorded in his public comment; the meeting record does not show any staff or vendor rebuttal during the audience participation segment.
