AURORA, Colo. (KDVR) — FOX31 is getting reaction from local law enforcement now that Rep. Lauren Boebert has introduced a federal bill that would require a judicial warrant when it comes to automated license plate readers like Flock.
“They’re blanketing our neighborhoods with flock cameras and every single one of you should be saying, what the flock,” Boebert said at a press conference on Thursday. “I mean, this is an absolute egregious reach on our Fourth Amendment rights. They’re creating a digital footprint of your entire life without a single warrant or even probable cause. Your morning commute to work? It’s tracked. Dropping off your kids at their soccer practice? That’s logged.”
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“That technology is used for one reason and one reason only, to stop victimization and to hold those who victimize accountable,” Aurora Police Chief Todd Chamberlain said. “That is what this technology allows us to do. That is how we use it.”
Chamberlain addressed the use of Flock on a local level in Aurora and the impacts of what the congresswoman stated about changing the way it’s used in the press conference last week…