{"id":314353,"date":"2026-10-26T06:16:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T06:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/314353\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T06:16:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T06:16:14","slug":"milton-city-council-hears-new-ordinance-on-surveillance-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/314353\/","title":{"rendered":"Milton City Council hears new ordinance on surveillance technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">MILTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) &#8211; Milton City Council on Tuesday night unanimously passed the first reading of an ordinance, creating safeguards before the city can develop or use surveillance technology like Flock cameras.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">It would do things like require council approval and public input before buying, borrowing or seeking funding for surveillance tech plus posting use policies online, detailing impacts on civil rights, and a public complaint process. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The measure now moves to a second reading.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WSAZ. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) &#8211; Milton City Council on Tuesday night unanimously passed the first reading of an ordinance,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[110988,990,74808,35991,139,128,130,129,114414,7366,503,978,43044],"class_list":["post-314353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-cameras","tag-city-council","tag-flock","tag-milton","tag-news","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-safeguards","tag-surveillance","tag-technology","tag-west-virginia","tag-wsaz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314353","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=314353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}