The Manvel City Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to remove all 16 Flock license plate reader cameras from the city. <\/p>\n
The 6-0 vote followed an hours-long public hearing focused on privacy, cybersecurity and the sharing of information collected by the cameras. <\/p>\n
City staff must send Flock a 30-day cancellation notice and cover the cameras within 24 to 48 hours.<\/p>\n
Mayor Dan Davis said his objection centered on Flock\u2019s data practices rather than license plate reader technology generally. <\/p>\n
A company representative acknowledged that Manvel\u2019s data helps improve the accuracy of Flock\u2019s artificial intelligence tools, while stating that the company does not use facial recognition. <\/p>\n
Davis also said 535 outside agencies could still access Manvel\u2019s cameras after the city recently reduced its sharing network.<\/p>\n
Residents largely opposed the system, while law enforcement representatives defended it as a tool for finding suspects, stolen vehicles and missing people. <\/p>\n
Manvel Police Chief Keith Traylor said an audit found no intentional misuse among 138 searches conducted by officers during one month, although police could not immediately say how many helped close a case. <\/p>\n
The decision follows a similar move in Willis, where city officials shut off their Flock cameras September 8 pending a City Council review of the technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Manvel City Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to remove all 16 Flock license plate reader cameras from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,66,223,27],"class_list":["post-430583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-local","tag-news","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}