{"id":415531,"date":"2026-10-01T08:44:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T08:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/415531\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T08:44:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T08:44:20","slug":"cameras-not-reading-plates-mdso-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/415531\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameras not reading plates, MDSO says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Miami Lakes\u2019 license plate reader cameras have gone offline following an order by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fdot.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Florida Department of Transportation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Local law enforcement agencies are required to shut down the cameras on public roads across the state, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamilakes-fl.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Town of Miami Lakes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamilakes-fl.gov\/departments\/police\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office Miami Lakes District<\/a> Maj. Eddy Ulloa provided an update to the Town Council on September 15.<\/p>\n<p>Councilman Steven Herzberg asked about the cameras and the current plan for the devices that remain off.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince we contract with the Sheriff\u2019s Office, the sheriff\u2019s position is to suspend it for the foreseeable future,\u201d Herzberg said.<\/p>\n<p>Herzberg said he just wanted some input and what the next step for the cameras is because there has been no abuse of the camera system in town to his knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe way this system works \u2026 it\u2019s not facial recognition cameras that are out there,\u201d Herzberg said.<\/p>\n<p>Ulloa said the cameras in Miami Lakes do not use artificial intelligence for facial recognition and AI only provides a snapshot of the make, model and color of the vehicle and the license plate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe haven\u2019t had any violations of any policies or misuse of the system as a whole,\u201d Ulloa said.<\/p>\n<p>He said the cameras are straightforward and very basic in the settings they use in town.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs there technology out there that is part of FLOCK that exceed what we do? Absolutely,\u201d Ulloa said. \u201cThey\u2019re not in the town itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ulloa said as deputies they have access to those FLOCK cameras in the system, but it\u2019s not something that is used in the town limits; their focus remains on the system in town unless they are looking for someone who has committed a crime.<\/p>\n<p>The system will remain dormant until further notice.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami Lakes\u2019 license plate reader cameras have gone offline following an order by the Florida Department of Transportation.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-415531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415531","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=415531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}