"For four hours on Tuesday, residents of Longmont, Colorado - where Flock has at least 23 AI-powered cameras and license plate readers - expressed their outrage at city counselors over the city's contract with the company. According to local magazine Yellowscene, nearly every seat at the hearing was full, and 90 percent of attendees were there to express their transparency and privacy concerns over Flock."
"When all was said and done, the city's council voted 5-1 in favor of rejecting any future expansion of its contract with the company. While the fate of the 23 existing cameras are still up in the air, it's a pretty decisive win for critics of the tech in the Boulder exurb. And they're far from alone. All throughout the country, communities and activists are rising up in anger against the cameras, which have been installed largely at the behest of municipal police departments."
Residents of Longmont, Colorado held a four-hour hearing and overwhelmingly voiced opposition to the city's contract expansion with Flock Safety, which operates at least 23 AI-powered cameras and license plate readers in the city. Attendees raised transparency and privacy concerns, questioned assurances about absence of predictive analytics or facial recognition, and criticized doubled data-retention periods from 14 to 30 days after Flock adoption. The city council voted 5-1 to reject future contract expansion, leaving the fate of existing cameras unresolved. Nationwide, communities and activists are protesting Automated License Plate Recognition programs and errors and misuse by police departments heighten skepticism.
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