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🔗 Months after Syracuse ditched Flock, critics say switch to Axon solved nothing Axon
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🔗 Flock cameras spark debate over privacy and surveillance after city switches to other provider Axon
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🔗 Syracuse never posted its license plate reader policy. Chief Mark Rusin plans to change that before activating Axon readers Axon
New Outbreak
🔗 Syracuse removes Flock license plate reader cameras from city property after months-long debate Axon
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🔗 Flock Safety removes its license plate readers, finalizing eight-month breakup with City of Syracuse Success
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🔗 Syracuse police used Flock Safety readers for nearly a month after readers were supposed to be taken down Illegal
🔗 Syracuse police 'moved to unplug' Flock Safety scanners months after revoking company's privileges "Syracuse Police Department officials on Thursday "moved to unplug" Flock Safety's license plate readers, which remain on city property weeks after a May deadline for the company to remove its hardware, Chief Mark Rusin said in a statement."
Notes: Once again Flock fails to comply with demands to remove their equipment.
🔗 Syracuse lawmakers pass law banning biometric surveillance in public places Switcheroo
🔗 Surveillance tech group violated transparency laws, experts say
🔗 Syracuse Common Council revokes contract with Flock
🔗 Syracuse lawmakers ice out Flock Safety in favor of company contracting with ICE
🔗 What to know about Axon, Syracuse's newest license plate reader provider
🔗 Syracuse wants to break up with Flock. Not so fast, company says. "The city did not comment because of potential litigation between the city and Flock, Muñoz said."
🔗 Syracuse Votes to Replace License Plate Readers After Data Privacy Breach
🔗 Syracuse Common Council votes to install Axon readers despite pushback
🔗 Protesters removed from Syracuse Common Council meeting during vote on license plate readers Pushback
🔗 Syracuse Council To Vote On License Plate Reader Switch After Data Leak
🔗 Syracuse lawmakers approve contract for Axon license plate readers, plan to block Flock Safety from city streets
🔗 Syracuse considers Axon for license plate readers amid Flock Safety concerns
🔗 Syracuse lawmakers likely to approve deal with new license plate reader company
🔗 How Mayor Sharon Owens plans to wrangle oversight of the surveillance technology her administration inherited
🔗 Common Council further restricts Flock readers, defers full ban Pushback
🔗 Syracuse council votes to remove Flock license plate reader from intersection "The council decided to hold off on a vote that would revoke its agreement with Flock for citywide cameras. The Syracuse Police Department (SPD) is working on a contract with Axon to provide license plate readers."
Notes: Switching from Flock to Axon is an improvement so small it requires special equipment to measure.
🔗 Lawmakers revoke permission for 2 SU-adjacent Flock readers, target other LPRs Pushback
🔗 Why Flock will get to keep Syracuse drivers' 'anonymized' data even if lawmakers cancel their contract "Against the advice of his own working group, Mayor Ben Walsh granted Flock the right to keep Syracuse drivers' anonymized data."
🔗 Syracuse lawmakers look to remove license plate readers after data sharing concerns Oversharing
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🔗 Syracuse lawmakers cut SU's plans for Flock readers on city property, table similar vote on police's readers Pushback
🔗 Will Syracuse lawmakers end Flock's ability to put license plate readers near city streets?
🔗 SU says DPS controls oversight, law enforcement's access to campus Flock data
🔗 Federal immigration agents accessed Syracuse drivers' data through secret Flock Safety deal Oversharing
🔗 SU installs license plate readers from Flock, company linked to ICE activity
🔗 Syracuse lawmakers plan to question police about sharing drivers' data: 'We'll dig a little bit'
🔗 Syracuse police 'inadvertently' exposed driver data to thousands of cops around the country Oversharing
🔗 Syracuse police have access to a nationwide network of license plate reader data. Who has access to theirs?
🔗 A study found Syracuse's new license plate readers make frequent mistakes. Councilors didn't know before approving them. "According to research published three years ago by a security and surveillance research firm, Flock license plate readers misread the state of 1-in-10 license plates. That does not include any other reading errors that may have happened."
🔗 26 cameras on major Syracuse streets could record thousands of license plate numbers daily
