Sometimes the stars align. Trojans want Flock out of town and its contract with the city is ending. Join us on Thursday, March 19 at the Troy City Council Finance meeting, where an authorization to enter into a 2-year agreement with Flock Group Inc. is on the agenda.
Across the country there is a rising outcry over the use of Flock cameras. These devices are more than license plate readers; they capture additional data on vehicles and drivers. Location, time, date are recorded and stored. Physical attributes of the vehicle like color, make, model, dents, and bumper stickers ae collected. And, you do not have to be a criminal for your information to be included. All of us are subject to this surveillance.
At the March 5 meeting of the Troy City Council, citizens came forward to ask the city to de-Flock. They laid out a clear case of why they are against the use of these devices. From sloppy protection of data to that data being shared without guidelines in place. Unfortunately, Mayor Mantello tried to paint these concerns as an effort to defund the police. How she came to make that leap we cannot be sure. Now we find with a late
addition to the Finance committee’s agenda that the Flock contract is ending. A fortuitous occurrence clearing the way to ending this relationship.
Join us on March 19 at the Troy City Council Finance meeting to speak against the renewal of the Flock contract. Let us de-Flock Troy together.
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