Apex residents are pushing town leaders to reconsider the Police Department’s use of Flock cameras after information gathered by local license plate readers was included in a federal agency’s embezzlement probe.
Data collected by Flock cameras can be searched by other law-enforcement agencies. The U.S. Postal Inspection Service ran three nationwide searches tied to an embezzlement case in which data from Apex was shared before police discovered and ended the “errant shares,” with the federal agency, Police Chief Ryan Johansen told The News & Observer.
He declined to say whether the federal searches returned any relevant information from Apex’s cameras, calling that investigative information the department would not disclose…