{"id":271685,"date":"2026-08-25T04:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T04:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/271685\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T04:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T04:14:07","slug":"huntington-city-council-tackles-flock-ordinance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/271685\/","title":{"rendered":"Huntington City Council tackles Flock ordinance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) \u2013 An ordinance putting safeguards in place for Flock technology in Huntington is now moving forward. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Huntington City Council took up that ordinance on Monday night, moving it to a second reading with one amendment. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">That amendment strengthens non-discrimination rules for camera placement, banning sites selected \u201csolely or in part\u201d based on characteristics like race or color.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The amendment now moves to a second reading at the next City Council meeting, which is scheduled for Sept. 14.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">For previous coverage &gt;&gt;&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsaz.com\/2026\/08\/20\/wsaz-investigates-huntington-releases-updated-guardrail-proposals-flock-technology\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wsaz.com\/2026\/08\/20\/wsaz-investigates-huntington-releases-updated-guardrail-proposals-flock-technology\/\">WSAZ Investigates | Huntington releases updated guardrail proposals for Flock technology<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WSAZ. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) \u2013 An ordinance putting safeguards in place for Flock technology in Huntington is now moving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[67216,110988,79,990,74808,114413,139,2696,128,130,129,114414,7366,503,43046,978,43045,43044],"class_list":["post-271685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-amendment","tag-cameras","tag-city","tag-city-council","tag-flock","tag-huntington","tag-news","tag-ordinance","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-safeguards","tag-surveillance","tag-technology","tag-wchs","tag-west-virginia","tag-wowk","tag-wsaz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}