On Friday, Dayton Police Chief Kamran Afzal revealed that the department failed to enact city restrictions on how the data from the Flock fixed license plate readers could be shared with other departments. That included 7,100 search requests citing immigration-related purposes from various law enforcement agencies, which city policy prohibited.
The department has suspended the program and a planned expansion of it. The commander in charge of implementing the safeguards no longer works for the department.
Dickstein called the widespread data sharing “egregious violations of policy.”…