After months of controversy surrounding Troy’s Flock cameras, some residents are encouraging the City Council to give other technology used by police a second look.
The Troy City Council unanimously approved a nearly $600,000 state grant that included $9,000 for artificial intelligence-integrated investigative software at a Thursday committee meeting — but not before a few city residents asked the council to put restrictions on the program.
The program, known as CLEAR, collates information from pre-existing public records, social media accounts and other sources into one place. The city’s grant proposal said the software helps conduct “semi-automated, keyword-based and AI-driven social media, internet and dark web monitoring of chronic offenders and known associates for evidence of weapons possession and the commission of Type I crimes.”…