Just a few feet off the corner of Sixth Street and Warren Avenue, a black pole with a solar panel and sleek oval black camera rises between two full desert holly bushes. On the oval camera is a small raised image of a stick with two branches: the logo of Flock Safety, a company that sells automatic license plate reader technology to companies and localities across the nation.
A little further down, another image: a sticker printed with 1984, with an “A” in the University of Arizona style saying: “A” is watching you.
In recent weeks, a group of community members at the University of Arizona have raised concerns about the university’s contract with Flock Safety, part of a national wave of concern about how the company shares data it collects through its readers…