Flock cameras in Oakland have been vandalized with paint as the surveillance technology continues to face scrutiny over privacy concerns.<\/p>\n
The vandalism incidents come just months after the Oakland City Council voted to expand its network of Flock cameras.<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFlock cameras in Oakland have been vandalized with paint.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
It\u2019s unclear who is responsible for the vandalism. Oakland police said they are aware of the damage and are investigating.<\/p>\n
In a statement, Flock Safety said, “When a camera is damaged, it directly impacts public safety\u2026While Flock supports individuals making their voices heard in the democratic process, committing criminal acts should never be a part of that process.”<\/p>\n
NBC Bay Area’s Pete Suratos has more in the video report above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Flock cameras in Oakland have been vandalized with paint as the surveillance technology continues to face scrutiny over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-292984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292984","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=292984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}