1+ week, 1+ day ago   (981+ words) Uprise RI Shock Report: Flock Appears to Ignore 30-Day Retention Promise A Flock Safety sales representative reportedly offered Sheboygan, Wisconsin, five years of data from the city's own license plate cameras — raising a narrow question about the 30-day retention limit…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (997+ words) Uprise RI Florida Pulls Plate Readers; McKee Still Reviewing Florida's transportation department revoked permits for license-plate readers on state highway rights-of-way and gave police 30 days to remove them, while Rhode Island's 60-day review under Gov. Dan McKee leaves every existing…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (725+ words) Uprise RI Cumberland Residents Get Their Say on Flock Cameras Cumberland's 12 Flock cameras are part of a network of automated license-plate readers now operating in dozens of Rhode Island communities under rules the state is only beginning to write, and…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (813+ words) Uprise RI ACLU: Flock 'Transparency' Portals Come Up Short The ACLU of Rhode Island says police Flock transparency portals are missing in three communities, omit data-sharing partners in eight more, and that only Foster and Newport publicly post audit logs....

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (498+ words) The council approved a mass-gathering permit for the Ocean State Renaissance Faire on August 29 and 30, and heard a resident object to its Flock camera decision. The Ocean State Renaissance Faire is cleared to run August 29 and 30 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Saugatucket…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (900+ words) Uprise RI Pawtucket Cop Fought Flock. Then Came the Charges. Former Pawtucket officer Noel Pichardo called the city's Flock license-plate cameras a "grave threat" to privacy, then faced a string of internal investigations and resigned facing termination. Gov. McKee has…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (534+ words) Six speakers, including an engineer who said Flock cameras carry 33 confirmed security vulnerabilities, urged Cumberland to cancel its license plate camera contract. No vote was taken. Cumberland's contract with Flock Safety for automated license plate reader cameras is up for…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (752+ words) Cumberland councilors stripped one September date from a farm's fall festival license over parking and a neighboring volunteer event, passed three ordinances, and heard residents demand the town drop its Flock Safety camera contract. Fall festival weekends at two Cumberland…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (200+ words) Newport's City Council approved a Flock Safety drone-first-responder contract on July 22 at a reported cost of $375,000, most of it covered by a private donation — weeks before Gov. McKee called for a statewide pause and review of new license-plate-reader installations. Newport…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (916+ words) Jamestown's police chief defended a State Police license-plate camera on Route 138 with crime-solving examples, while an ACLU member urged the council to seek its removal until state safeguards exist. No vote was taken. The Jamestown Town Council spent much of…...