{"id":363188,"date":"2026-10-02T21:22:50","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T21:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/363188\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T21:22:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T21:22:50","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-new-bill-seeks-to-ban-federal-use-of-flock-license-plate-readers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/363188\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | New Bill Seeks To Ban Federal Use Of Flock License Plate Readers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Three lawmakers are introducing a new bill to crack down on Flock cameras.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, U.S. Sens. Bernie Sanders and Jeff Merkley introduced the Ban Flock Act.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">If the bill were to be approved, it would ban federal agencies from using automatic license-plate readers and restrict federal funding for local governments that use them.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Flock operates over 120,000 cameras across the U.S.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The company says it is open to regulation and would change its policies to try to prevent abuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three lawmakers are introducing a new bill to crack down on Flock cameras. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, U.S. Sens.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-363188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363188","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=363188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}