This is going to happen in a lot of places that aren't large enough to make news: people dumping Flock over bad publicity, and simply installing ALPR cameras from vendors smart enough not to get themselves embroiled in politics.
Axon, the taser company? They're not any better, ethically https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Yd9nLQx3qQ
How about Denver just doesn't surveil its citizens, at all?
Evil Corp B has been demoted, Evil Corp A to take up the mantle.
How about... and hear me out, here... no ALPRs? Perhaps we shouldn't be violating the Bill of Rights in the name of "safety"?
The service that Flock provides is the problem, not Flock. Switching to another company to perform the same task makes no difference.
Anti-Pinkerton Fed act: Gov't may not buy services that it is not legally allowed to do themselves.
I thought Flock and Axon were affiliated.
This sounds a lot like the Simpsons Treehouse of Horror "Citizen Kang" episode that ends with the human race enslaved and Homer saying, "Don't blame me, I voted for Kudos".
More people need bicycle racks hung on their cars — all the time — which seem to fasten best when covering the license plate.
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Many states do not consider a trailer hitch ball as "obstructing" the license plate...
...so I have a trailer hitch ball hung directly across my identifier, entirely obscuring the plate (but not "obstructing," to letter of poorly-written laws e.g. Tennessee's).
Been rolling with it for months and nobody cares. Now I'm in Flock's database as the white Camry with no visible identifier (no bumper stickers nor tag visible).
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First time you get cited for "obstructing license plate," in Tennessee, is a $10.00 fine. Second is $20.00. This state also doesn't require plates for trailers, so after my second citation I'll just start hauling my 2ft long canoe trailer everywhere (which conveniently covers license plate).
I'm glad Denver has solved the housing, drug, incarceration, and homeless crises and has money leftover to spend on this.
Seems like a good move. Lots of value to ALPR systems responsibly managed. Flock is just an ass of a company.
Here in Oregon, I very nearly managed to get some decent legislation drafted that would have required a number of strong data protections from ALPR vendors.
Axon interfered heavily with that process and -- after the legislative workgroup had well concluded and just a couple of hours before the Senate committee was to vote on it -- managed to neuter one of the key protections in the bill.
Axon is not "better" than Flock, they are just slightly less transparent about some aspects and slightly less radioactive.
Community groups that have formed and activated against Flock should continue to harass local governments that immediately switch to Axon as a replacement.