ASHEVILLE, N.C. (828newsNOW) — More than 2.7 million searches were recorded through the Asheville Police Department’s Flock license plate reader network during a three-month period earlier this year. But now that the city has ended its contract with the company, police say they can no longer provide detailed records showing which outside agencies conducted searches or why.
APD spokesman Rick Rice said Flock Safety deleted the associated data when the city terminated its contract. That included search activity, information about outside agencies and the reasons entered for searches.
“Because APD no longer has access to that data, we cannot produce a list of those agencies and their search reasons,” Rice said in an email to 828newsNOW…