{"id":329206,"date":"2026-08-25T13:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T13:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/329206\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T13:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T13:08:11","slug":"tonawanda-approves-axon-license-plate-reader-cameras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/329206\/","title":{"rendered":"Tonawanda approves Axon license plate reader cameras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Town of Tonawanda has approved purchasing Axon License Plate Reader cameras.<\/p>\n<p>Concerned residents spoke out against the purchase Monday, citing privacy concerns and the cameras being used to watch people who have done nothing wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Interim Town Supervisor John Flynn rebutted before voting in favor of the cameras. He said public safety is his top concern and these cameras can help keep the area safe.<\/p>\n<p>Flynn added that if anyone does abuse the information the cameras provide, he promises any punishment will be swift and heavy handed.<\/p>\n<p>Cameras will be placed along New York state highways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Town of Tonawanda has approved purchasing Axon License Plate Reader cameras. Concerned residents spoke out against the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[113,9,11,10,49,51,50,12,308,380],"class_list":["post-329206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-buffalo","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-news","tag-public-safety","tag-spectrum-news-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}