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City seeks firm ban on using camera footage to train Flock’s AI; narrow carve‑out allowed
Summary
Staff presented an addendum to restrict Flock Safety from using city camera data to train or improve machine‑learning/AI models, with a limited exception allowing footage review to troubleshoot hardware. Staff said the addendum will be signed and brought to the council for a vote on Thursday.
City legal staff described an addendum to the Flock Safety agreement that would prohibit Flock from using customer data — including footage and images captured by city cameras — to train or improve machine‑learning or AI models. The draft addendum explicitly states: "Flock may not use customer data that that would include the data gathered from our cameras to train or improve any machine learning or AI models."
Staff said Flock requested a narrow carve‑out to allow the company to inspect a small set of images when diagnosing or improving camera hardware, which staff allowed. Staff also said the addendum makes the city’s permitted‑purpose limitations (law‑enforcement queries authorized by Idaho code) explicit and that Flock would be required to sign the addendum; staff will ask Flock to verify compliance and planned to present the signed addendum to council for vote on Thursday.
