CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – The City of Charlottesville will not resume use of the Flock camera system, City Manager Sam Sanders announced during a council meeting Monday.
City Councilor Lloyd Snook told WINA Morning News that Sanders and City Police Chief Michael Kochis made the decision to cease Flock camera use after the pilot program expired in October after input from various City Councilors.
“The concern is always if you give that kind of information to the government, or make it subpoena-able by the government, or in some cases simply the government says, ‘Give us a back door into your data base and we’ll use it in real time,’ that that’s just giving the government too much power,” Snook said during an appearance on WINA’s Morning News…