{"id":374048,"date":"2026-08-17T22:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T22:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/374048\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T22:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T22:28:11","slug":"packed-meeting-highlights-concerns-over-st-petes-flock-cameras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/374048\/","title":{"rendered":"Packed meeting highlights concerns over St. Pete\u2019s Flock cameras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>August 17, 2026 &#8211; DeFlock St. Pete organizer Zach Schira is pushing for greater oversight of St. Petersburg\u2019s 50 Flock license plate reader cameras, warning the system is \u201cripe for abuse\u201d without stronger safeguards. Saturday\u2019s meeting packed the Obama Main Library auditorium to its 120-person capacity limit, leaving many people who had RSVPed unable to enter, including representatives from multiple news organizations, illustrating the breadth of concern over how the technology is used and who can access the data it collects.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\/zaps\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More Zaps<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Frontpage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"August 17, 2026 &#8211; DeFlock St. Pete organizer Zach Schira is pushing for greater oversight of St. Petersburg\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-374048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}