{"id":236033,"date":"2026-03-25T16:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T16:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/236033\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T16:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T16:21:08","slug":"berkeley-delays-vote-on-2m-flock-surveillance-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/236033\/","title":{"rendered":"Berkeley delays vote on $2M Flock surveillance expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ud245yqjrtrw3cfr.jpg\" alt=\"Berkeley delays Flock camera decision\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">BERKELEY, Calif. &#8211; Berkeley is postponing a decision on whether to expand and renew its contract with the Flock surveillance system after a marathon city council meeting.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">The council had been scheduled to vote Tuesday night but pushed the decision to a special meeting set for June 2 after too many residents sought to speak. The meeting went until 1:30 a.m. Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Berkeley police are seeking a $2 million expansion of the city&#8217;s partnership with Flock, which would include renewing existing license plate readers, adding three new Flock drones and installing 16 fixed cameras.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Police Chief Jen Louis sought to address privacy concerns surrounding the proposal.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">&#8220;On privacy, our draft policies are clear \u2014 drones are deployed only for specific calls for service, not for random patrols, and cameras face the horizon when they&#8217;re in transit and only orient downward once they&#8217;re at an authorized scene,&#8221; Louis said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Berkeley fire officials also voiced support for the program, saying drone footage from the Flock system assisted crews during a recent fire on University Avenue.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/alameda-county\/berkeley\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeley<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERKELEY, Calif. &#8211; Berkeley is postponing a decision on whether to expand and renew its contract with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[389,764,1184,100,143,145,144,1181],"class_list":["post-236033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-alameda-county","tag-berkeley","tag-ca","tag-news","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}