Flock License Plate Readers

Cited Flock's patent for classifying people by race, gender, height, and weight, raised Fourth Amendment concerns, and listed documented failures in other cities. He asked the city to adopt a written plate reader policy, a 30-day retention cap, no sharing without a council vote, a ban on audio sensors, and an independent security assessment.

Said Flock has hired PR firms to stage resident support at meetings and questioned whether the cameras can accurately tell which state a license plate is from, raising false-hit concerns.

Argued the system's hot-mapping capability amounts to tracking people and has been abused to facilitate domestic violence elsewhere, questioning what protection exists for victims if officers misuse the data.

An IT professional who noted most cameras in Shakopee are privately owned and outside city control, and asked how the city secures its own cameras against hacking, citing publicly searchable IoT databases.