Toledo’s license-plate camera network is staying in limbo. Toledo City Council deadlocked repeatedly on Tuesday, Nov. 4, over whether to end the city’s agreements with Flock Safety, and the question now sits with Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz, who could break the tie as early as the council’s Nov. 17 meeting, WBCL reported.
Council took up Resolution R-435-26, which asks the city to end and not renew its Flock agreements, take down or switch off the equipment and delete Flock’s data as far as the law allows, Lake Erie Inquiry reported, citing the city’s Legistar record. A motion to hold the resolution two weeks, until a city audit is finished, drew six votes — one short of the seven needed — the Toledo Free Press reported.
The resolution itself then failed 5-6, with Mac Driscoll, Theresa Gadus, Nick Komives, Erin Kramer and Sam Melden voting yes, and George Sarantou, Vanice Williams, John Hobbs III, Adam Martinez, Cerssandra McPherson and Theresa Morris voting no, the Toledo Free Press and Lake Erie Inquiry reported. Even a yes vote would only have been a request: the contracts belong to the mayor’s administration, and the resolution urges him to end them, Lake Erie Inquiry reported…