Just the exits?
I've noticed hardly anyone speaks up on here, maybe it's the small town, smaller population, easier to see through the anonymity that Reddit affords mostly. Maybe I'll ask this question, and no one will answer it which is fine. So here goes nothing.
Has anyone else noticed the amount of Flock ALPR cameras that have gone up in the last year? It went from "just the exits" as the former police chief said during a city council meeting, with the Las Cruces police chief playing spokesman, when they were introduced to them (city council) and rapidly approved in 2024. Presently almost every main thoroughfare's intersection, all the intersections with traffic lights it seems from here to Mescalero, and South all the way to the state line. Has anyone entered an FOIA on the subscription fees?on the ways they've been implemented, used, queried for searches, and/or abused? Results? I'm guessing not? Just curious. I know how folks in Alamogordo value their privacy, I do, I don't live in Alamogordo either technically but I drive. I see the same cameras at the big box stores too and learned private subscription holders can query for searches through Flock Safety. Subscription holding Private citizens can invade the privacy of other private citizens. That's kind of concerning.
At least LEOs are held to a higher standard even though oversight is non existent. Not that I don't think this technology shouldn't be afforded to our public servants to help them do their job, but paying for the data that they say they are not collecting, yet the moment you offer to purchase it, then it's in the possession of the purchaser. How strange is that?
If Alamogordo DPS officers do this same act in order to get PC to pull you over anyway,(run your tags) you know who you are, why waste the money on Flock and just hire more officers or give the deserving one's pay raises. And seeing these cameras going up county wide makes one wonder the same for the other county and state agencies.
Which brings the inevitable question of who is benefitting from kickbacks er I mean sales commissions that work for our local implementing agency or governing bodies. Again I reiterate that I believe these cameras are a great tool to have for our local police, but I remember hearing on the scanner about LEOs interactions with ongoing traffic investigations with Flock and their database, up until they encrypted the transmission signals. Digitized.
There can be, no trust, without transparency. Said the anonymous redditor sheesh 🙄