A nationwide network of surveillance cameras is surreptitiously tracking your movements, including when you drive through Tempe. What’s more, federal agents have been documented using that network to track down people they want to deport.
Now a Tempe City Council candidate is pushing the city to end its contract with Flock Safety, the company that makes the cameras and provides them to cities, law enforcement agencies and businesses. On Oct. 16, Bobby Nichols spoke out against the cameras and Flock — which was recently caught being less-than-transparent about allowing Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal agencies to access their data — at the council’s most recent public meeting.
“I am particularly opposed to Tempe’s contract with Flock,” Nichols told the council during the public comment portion of the meeting, “as it poses an unreasonable risk to the safety and well-being of more than 40,000 Hispanic and Latino residents of Tempe, who are already facing a rampant and unwarranted increase in searches, seizures, detentions and deportations.”…