{"id":10172,"date":"2023-10-10T12:05:29","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T19:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=10172"},"modified":"2023-10-10T12:05:29","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T19:05:29","slug":"installation-of-license-plate-reader-cameras-has-been-removed-from-la-mesas-city-council-agenda-oct-10th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=10172","title":{"rendered":"Installation of License Plate Reader Cameras has been removed from La Mesa’s City Council Agenda Oct 10th"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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In the meantime, below is an excerpt from an article published by the ACLU February of this year on the subject of Flock\u2019s Mass Surveillance License Plate Readers:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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The surveillance company Flock Safety is blanketing American cities with dangerously powerful and unregulated automatic license plate recognition (ALPR) cameras. While license plate readers have been around for some time, Flock is the first to create a nationwide mass-surveillance system out of its customers\u2019 cameras.<\/p>\n

Unlike a targeted ALPR camera system that is designed to take pictures of license plates, check the plates against local hot lists, and then flush the data if there\u2019s no hit, Flock is building a giant camera network that records people\u2019s comings and goings across the nation, and then makes that data available for search by any of its law enforcement customers.<\/p>\n

Such a system provides even small-town sheriffs access to a sweeping and powerful mass-surveillance tool, and allows big actors like federal agencies and large urban police departments to access the comings and goings of vehicles in even the smallest of towns. And every new customer that buys and installs the company\u2019s cameras extends Flock\u2019s network, contributing to the creation of a centralized mass surveillance system of Orwellian scope.<\/p>\n

If the police or government leaders are pushing for Flock or another centralized mass-surveillance ALPR system in your community, we urge you to oppose it, full stop.<\/p>\n

There is no reason the technology should be used to create comprehensive records of everybody\u2019s comings and goings \u2014 and that is precisely what ALPR databases like Flock\u2019s are doing.<\/p>\n

In our country, the government should not be tracking us unless it has individualized suspicion that we\u2019re engaged in wrongdoing.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the meantime, below is an excerpt from an article published by the ACLU February of this year on the subject of Flock\u2019s Mass Surveillance License Plate Readers: The surveillance company Flock Safety is blanketing American cities with dangerously powerful and unregulated automatic license plate recognition (ALPR) cameras. 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