Altwer supports the council\u2019s decision and emphasizes she does not want data from the cameras shared with federal immigration agencies. Altwer points to her experience as a former San Mateo police officer, adding, \u201cI’m the person who understands how these processes work and knows how to ask the right questions to make sure that we’re protecting community members.\u201d <\/p>\n
Ator calls the council\u2019s move a \u201cstep in the right direction\u201d but would push for a full audit of the city\u2019s contract with Flock Safety, the provider of the automated license plate cameras, before supporting a renewal. Citing his prior experience with vendor contracts, he says that because of data privacy concerns \u201cthe original Flock contract would not have passed my review, absolutely not.\u201d <\/p>\n
Chester describes the council\u2019s changes as \u201cwell thought out,\u201d but says going forward, the council needs to take a hard look at whether or not to renew the city’s contract with Flock. \u201cI hope that there are other companies that are going to prove themselves to be even more protective of our information,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n
Hennessy supports the license plate reader program. \u201cIf we have a child abducted or we have a problem \u2014 the crimes that are [solved] are way more positive to me than somebody worrying about their privacy,\u201d he says. He does support having some rules about sharing the information with \u201can outside source.\u201d <\/p>\n
Hughes agrees with the council\u2019s vote and says the new rules will help the city remain \u201copen and transparent to residents.\u201d He points to the challenge of recruiting police officers and adds that \u201cthe job that these automated license plate readers do for our community, I think, far outweighs all of the things that could go wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Altwer supports the council\u2019s decision and emphasizes she does not want data from the cameras shared with federal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-344604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344604","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=344604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}