POESTENKILL — Several residents have sent a clear message to the Town Board: We don’t want government surveillance cameras in Poestenkill.
And the Town Board members listened, rejecting a proposal during a meeting on Thursday to install automated license plate readers on municipal property.
The Rensselaer County Sheriff’s Office had requested permission to place the technology designed to identify criminal suspects at Poestenkill Town Hall, facing a five-way intersection. Residents were quick to raise privacy concerns online, many of which were echoed at the recent meeting…