**Come out and show your opposition to surveillance!**
- Monday, Sept 8th Eugene City Council Meeting
- Thursday, Sept 11th Eugene Police Commission Meeting
Categoría: springfield
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Community makes an impact on Springfield City Council
On Tuesday, September 2nd, residents showed up in numbers to the Springfield City Council meeting to voice concerns over the adoption of Flock surveillance AI cameras in the community. With more than 100 community members in attendance (standing room only), and 12 public comments about the adoption of Flock and the dangers it poses, the…
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Springfield police chief Jami Resch: Flock use will be “transparent”
Lookout Eugene-Sprinfield published an article on August 8, “Springfield chief promises transparency in rolling out license-plate readers” (archive link). The article includes a number of statements from police chief Resch, trying to reassure residents that their concerns are being considered. It also notes that it was the previous police chief, Andrew Shearer, who pursued the…
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Springfield police to deploy license-plate cameras, but release few details
The Springfield Police Department plans to install 25 license-plate-reading cameras in the next few months, but is declining to identify which law enforcement agencies will have access to the data the cameras collect. Flock Safety has stressed that local departments make decisions on how to share the data collected by the camera readers. But published…
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Springfield PD responds to our FOIA request
Springfield Police Department released documents in response to our FOIA request, including the locations that AI cameras will be installed in the city. They neglected to include the contract between the city and the surveillance vendor Flock Safety, but we followed up to make sure its on its way. We’re sorting through the information and…