Flock Safety Vote TOMORROW - Ask City Council to VOTE NO
Tomorrow, the Fort Wayne City Council will be voting on renewal of the Flock Safety contract. The cost for this year will be $120,250.00.
Flock have added dozens of new cameras in the last few weeks. Visit deflock.me to view camera locations. There are now around 100 within City Limits, and I suspect more will continue to be added.
Flock Cameras, in sufficient density, make it effectively impossible to go about your business without being tracked. They know when you go to the grocery store, commute, enter the State, when you last visited Colorado, etc. They are effectively investigating you all day, every day.
Flock Cameras have:
- Misidentified a letter in a license plate, leading to a family being held at gunpoint for "possessing a stolen vehicle"
- Misidentified a single vehicle multiple times, causing nuisance pullovers which waste Police time and unnecessarily waylay the citizenry.
- Been used by multiple police officers to keep tabs on romantic relationships
- Been exposed to the open internet for months without action to resolve
These cameras are a blight on our privacy and local security. They enforce a relationship of animosity between the law and the citizenry. They must be taken down.