The Albany City Council will soon decide whether to turn the police department’s Flock camera back on.
Only one of the four contracted Flock cameras has been installed in Albany, and was turned off after a City Council vote in February. The camera was then stolen.
Critics of the AI-powered license plate reading cameras call them an invasion of privacy that can put vulnerable people at risk, especially if data gathered by the cameras is accessed by law enforcement agencies from outside the area…