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Resident urges Roselle to push for state limits on Flock Safety plate-search data
Summary
Alex Behrens told the Village of Roselle board that the town’s Flock Safety transparency page provides only metadata, not a way for residents to see whether their license plate was searched, and urged the board to back state legislation to add safeguards.
Alex Behrens, a Roselle business owner and resident, urged the Village Board to press for state-level limits on Flock Safety license-plate search data, saying the village’s transparency portal “provides merely metadata about number of searches” but does not let a citizen check whether their plate was searched. He told trustees he has filed FOIA requests and is awaiting guidance from the Illinois attorney general on redactions.
“The Roselle transparency portal from Flock is actually a, tool provided by the Flock company that provides merely metadata about number of searches,” Behrens said, arguing that the vendor’s site does not permit a resident to submit a plate to learn if it was searched. He noted a bill he referenced as 5151 in Springfield and asked the board to consider advocating for safeguards rather than unilateral opt-outs that could hamper legitimate law-enforcement uses.
Mayor (presiding) responded that Roselle “opted out of sharing our data with any other agency that is not within the state of Illinois,” and said the village’s contract requires the vendor to clear data every 30 days. The mayor characterized the issue as statewide in scope and welcomed further research and conversation with the speaker and staff.
