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We had some wonderful civil discourse regarding Flock \nand ALPRs in general. I really respect that someone took some time, genuine time \nout of a super busy schedule unlike some of my elected officials here that refuse to \nmeet with me. I feel like I am on a list that people just don’t want to talk to me, don’t \nwant to meet with me. Whatever the case may be. I don’t know why I am on a list. But \nI definitely am. My father poured the concrete that built I-10 here. My parents both \nworked at White Sands Missile Range. My cousin is a sitting Judge on the Third \nCircuit, my other cousin is retired LCPD, my other cousin retired from the third floor \nhere. The list goes on. I am from Las Cruces. You treat me like I am not part of this \ncommunity, and I am sick and tired of it. We need to build trust. There is no trust here. \nTrust is eroded with you people. The county included. I am going to say this at the \ncounty if I am allowed but I don’t even know if I am trespassed or not. It is whacky \nover there too but regardless the Fentanyl that hit the streets that the Governor and \nthe Mayor and everyone else is saying, oh it was the DEAs fault. You can’t have that \nsituation without having local knowledge. I ran into a situation here where I had a \nshort-term rental invaded by some yucky people. I was pretty certain that they were \nworking as informants after talking to another co-host down the street that I never met \nbefore she said the same thing. Her sister is on the street, and she mentioned that the \nword on the street is that the Fentanyl is being let onto the street to find bigger fish. I \nhad this discussion months ago, maybe 8 months ago now if not longer so I don’t buy \nthis rhetoric. The other rhetoric I don’t buy is our elected officials such as Senator Bill \nSoules showing up at the park now on our side, the people’s side. That is \ndisingenuous. His wife graduated from this dais and now is working for the Boys and \nGirls Club which got a huge novelty oversized check from Project Jupiter and now Bill \nSoules is out there saying oh no, dang these people. We can’t have this. This is \nhorrible behavior, yet in secret meetings that were cancelled on the agenda at the \ncounty, but happen anyway with the Boys and Girls Club with this big giant check \nfrom Project Jupiter. That does not build trust. I demand we speak about a data center \nmoratorium. We do not need that junk up at the Mesa technology park, the Industrial \nPark, whatever you guys call it. The Data Center Park I am sure is what you want to \nrebrand it as. We need real discussions here. I am sick and tired of being treated like \nthis and so is everyone behind me.","line_start":5,"line_end":5,"offset_ratio":0.0,"topics":[],"matched_terms":["flock","alpr"],"speaker":"Derrick Pacheco","speaker_role":"Member of the Public","is_public":true,"source_kind":"minutes","video_url":"","document_id":24005,"caption_caveat":"Meeting quotes come from automatic captions and are approximate. They record what subject was discussed, not exact wording and never a figure spoken aloud. Check the recording before relying on any number."},{"id":21,"meeting_date":"2026-05-18","body":"City Council","quote":"Sierra Alminster, Member of the Public said I would like to echo the disappointment. I \nknow everyone is disappointed in seeing these cuts to quality of life and ya again I \nwould also like to echo the fact that it is just disappointing that if you look at the police \nbudget, the funds that are going to the police, the GRT money that is going to the \npolice I feel like it doesn’t reflect the economic situation that we are in right now but if \nyou look at any other area in life in Las Cruces it very clearly reflects the economic \ncrisis we are in right now. I have heard it brought up you know, this was brought up in \nthe public comments that we are calling the police the root cause. I am not calling the \npolice the root cause I am saying that we should be funding to fix the root causes of \ncrime and unsafe communities which is not having quality of life for the community \nmembers. When I look up the type of funding that the police department receives, \nwhen I hear numbers like 1,750,000/1,964,000 or specifically 450,000 secured by \nHeinrich for camera trailers, drones, automatic license plate readers, auto activated \ncar and body cameras. I find it hard to believe the sob story of why the police need \nsuch a huge portion of our GRT money. This feels a lot like the GRT meeting of trying \nto figure out where to put these tiny amounts of money, making cuts here for that and \nagain just the aspect of that we are not saying, we are saying to fund the community \nand it is really tragic to not see that reflected of all aspects, of all departments and that \nthe community are the ones that are having to take the biggest hit for this.","line_start":24,"line_end":24,"offset_ratio":0.0,"topics":["cost"],"matched_terms":["automatic license plate","license plate reader"],"speaker":"Sierra Alminster","speaker_role":"Member of the Public","is_public":true,"source_kind":"minutes","video_url":"","document_id":24004,"caption_caveat":"Meeting quotes come from automatic captions and are approximate. They record what subject was discussed, not exact wording and never a figure spoken aloud. Check the recording before relying on any number."},{"id":20,"meeting_date":"2026-04-20","body":"City Council","quote":"Juan Garcia, Member of the Public said this Op Ed was in the Las Cruces Sun \nSunday, yesterday, it was written by Chief Story and I think it is worth sharing. \n“Technology has rapidly evolved in the past 19 years of my policing career. As \ntechnology has advanced, law enforcement is leveraging new tools to keep \ncommunities safe. Criminals are very effective at using technology to victimize people \nand defeat our efforts to catch and prosecute them. Police departments must keep \npace. License plate readers, LPRs specifically has been a hot topic recently. These \ncameras capture and read license plates enabling law enforcement to quickly search \nfor vehicles that are stolen. Linked to human trafficking or involved in other criminal \nactivity. LPR technology also integrates with Amber or Silver Alerts alerting law \nenforcement in real time when a vehicle associated with an alert passes a camera. In \nLas Cruces we have used this technology to help solve everything from homicides to \nvictims to missing person cases. Our ability to locate and recover stolen vehicles has \nimproved significantly since we implemented LPRs in 2021. Just recently the first clue \nof an attempted kidnapping on NMSUs campus came from an LPR. Because of this \ntechnology the NMSU Police Department arrested the suspect the following day. \nWhile LPRs do not provide continuous tracking to identify who is behind the wheel \nthey are one of the few tools available that can quickly surface actionable vehicle \ninformation in the moments it is needed most. This tool is just one piece of the puzzle, \nbut it is a critical one. Guard rails are important, exist in both department policy and \nstate law but the value of LPRs far outweighs reasonable privacy concerns. LPRs \nallow law enforcement to obtain justice for victims and in some cases prevent them \nfrom becoming victims in the first place”. And now some political hypocrisy when \nresidents push back against Realize Las Cruces, a few council members openly \nmocked their worries about neighborhood safety tossing around, “not in my backyard”, \nCity Council Meeting April 20, 2026 \n \nlike an insult. Now fast forward to last month, CBP announces it might open a new \nstation in Las Cruces and suddenly on April 3rd Councilor Corran tells the journal you \nwill never hear me say not in my backyard ever except today.","line_start":6,"line_end":6,"offset_ratio":0.0,"topics":["sharing","policy","civil_liberties"],"matched_terms":["license plate reader","lpr"],"speaker":"Juan Garcia","speaker_role":"Member of the Public","is_public":true,"source_kind":"minutes","video_url":"","document_id":24003,"caption_caveat":"Meeting quotes come from automatic captions and are approximate. They record what subject was discussed, not exact wording and never a figure spoken aloud. Check the recording before relying on any number."},{"id":18,"meeting_date":"2026-02-17","body":"City Council","quote":"Derrick Pacheco, Member of the Public said I wanted the additional minute to start \nthis meeting by thanking and showing some love. I would like to start things a little \ndifferent and start with some love, but I am going to need everyone’s undivided \nattention. Chief, thank you very much from the bottom of my heart. You have always \nbeen very approachable, very respectful and a welcome change from Chief \nDominguez. Mr. Daniels, I understand that fires are out of control in this county, thank \nyou for your service and your team. I know it is a thankless job. Mr. Sedillo, thank you \nfor your continued service. Ms. Delgado, thank you. Ms. McClure, I didn’t realize that \nyou were such an accomplished author. Thank you for bringing your talents to this \ncity. Mr. Mattiace, for your continued service as a business leader and a thoughtful \npragmatic thinker on the bench. Mr. Harris, I can’t thank you enough for your \npresence on the bench. Your demeanor is much welcome. Your attention to detail and \nthe way that you respectfully with all your body pay attention to constituents is noted. \nMr. Munoz, glad to have you. Thank you for taking diligent notes. I noticed that. Mr. \nEnriquez, thank you for your prior service on the fire team here and I appreciate you \nas Mayor. Ikani, I can’t say your name as well as everyone else’s yet, but I am \nworking on it. Thank you for sticking around, coming in from Utah while others \nbounced around and you stuck around I appreciate that. Mr. Douglas thank you for \nyour work. Ms. Rivera, thank you today for giving me extra attention. With that being \nsaid this city and this county is in shambles, and it is really heartbreaking. We have a \ngreat divide here from the county to the city to the constituents. I feel so blessed to be \namongst my peers that are so very smart and very caring and they show up time and \ntime to voice their concerns with their heart on their chest knowing very well that they \ncould be doxed or otherwise pointed at when they are the grocery store or giggled at \nby the ladies in the back row. In regard to the county being divided by the city and \nvice versa Project Jupiter comes to mind real quick. I don’t think once we have heard \nany testimony regarding water restrictions here in the city. We are not allowed to \nwater on Mondays. We are only allowed to water our tomato gardens every other day \nyet we bring in major projects without consulting the other team. We are all working in \nCity Council Meeting February 17, 2026 \n \nsilos and vacuums and not together and I think that if we work together and took a \nmore humanistic approach to things we would figure this out in a heartbeat, in an LA \nminute. Most of our problems locally would be fixed. It really would. Very \ndisappointing that my Councilor McClure told me that she isn’t allowed to bring forth \nresolutions for discussion or for consideration. That is just untrue. That was you not \nwanting to bring forth a resolution. That was you not wanting to","line_start":17,"line_end":17,"offset_ratio":0.0,"topics":[],"matched_terms":["flock"],"speaker":"Derrick Pacheco","speaker_role":"Member of the Public","is_public":true,"source_kind":"minutes","video_url":"","document_id":24002,"caption_caveat":"Meeting quotes come from automatic captions and are approximate. They record what subject was discussed, not exact wording and never a figure spoken aloud. Check the recording before relying on any number."},{"id":19,"meeting_date":"2026-02-17","body":"City Council","quote":"Councilor Munoz said page 3, the Quality of Life increase to senior meals program, \ntotally agree that is important and we have to take care of our seniors as they took \ncare of us when we were younger. That is an adjustment, is that because of cuts \nsomewhere, federal or state funding or was that a change to the forecast? \n \nCarol Brey, Quality of Life Director said yes, essentially that is one of the reasons we \nare asking for this increase. We did see a decrease to the NSIP, Nutrition Services \nIncentive Program this year. I believe it was about $123,465 decrease in that and so \nthat is part of this is going to be a total of $165,000 that we will need over two \nquarters. We are asking for $82,500 this quarter and we will ask for the remainder \nnext quarter most likely and then also increases in attendance of meals as well as \nincrease in food costs, which I believe we are all experiencing. \n \n City Councilor John Munoz moved, seconded by City Councilor Michael Harris, \nCity Council Meeting February 17, 2026 \n \nto Approve Resolution No. 26-103. \nRESULT: Carried \nMOVER: City Councilor John Munoz \nSECONDER: City Councilor Michael Harris \nAYES: Mayor Eric Enriquez, City Councilor Cassie McClure, City Councilor William \nMattiace, City Councilor Michael Harris, and City Councilor John Munoz \nABSENT: City Councilor Johana Bencomo and City Councilor Becky Corran \n 7.3 COUNCIL BILL NO. 26-016; ORDINANCE NO. 3108: AN ORDINANCE \nAMENDING CHAPTER 2, ARTICLE IV, DIVISION 3, SUBDIVISION XIV. \nVETERANS ADVISORY BOARD OF THE LAS CRUCES MUNICIPAL CODE \n(LCMC) REGARDING MEMBERSHIP. \n Christine Rivera, City Clerk gave the overhead presentation. \n City Councilor John Munoz moved, seconded by City Councilor Michael Harris, \nto Approve Ordinance No. 3108. \nRESULT: Carried \nMOVER: City Councilor John Munoz \nSECONDER: City Councilor Michael Harris \nAYES: Mayor Eric Enriquez, City Councilor Cassie McClure, City Councilor Michael \nHarris, and City Councilor John Munoz \nABSENT: City Councilor William Mattiace, City Councilor Johana Bencomo, and City \nCouncilor Becky Corran \n \n 8. BOARD APPOINTMENTS \n 8.1 JACOB KIDD \n City Councilor John Munoz moved, seconded by City Councilor Michael Harris, \nto appoint Jacob Kidd to the CIAC. \nRESULT: Carried \nMOVER: City Councilor John Munoz \nSECONDER: City Councilor Michael Harris \nAYES: Mayor Eric Enriquez, City Councilor Cassie McClure, City Councilor William \nMattiace, City Councilor Michael Harris, and City Councilor John Munoz \nABSENT: City Councilor Johana Bencomo and City Councilor Becky Corran \n \n 9. NOTICE OF PROPOSED ORDINANCE(S) \n1) There will be no public discussion. \n2) A Councilor may ask staff for clarification on the proposed ordinance(s). \n 9.1 \n None. \n \n \n 10. CITY COUNCIL MEMBER BOARD REPORTS AND COMMENT \n 10.1 COUNCILOR MCCLURE \n I am wondering coming out of the conversation today if we should talk a little bit more, \nthis is more towards City Manager about strategy, and I don’t think the public does \nhave an awa","line_start":24,"line_end":24,"offset_ratio":0.0,"topics":["cost"],"matched_terms":["flock"],"speaker":"Munoz","speaker_role":"Councilor","is_public":false,"source_kind":"minutes","video_url":"","document_id":24002,"caption_caveat":"Meeting quotes come from automatic captions and are approximate. They record what subject was discussed, not exact wording and never a figure spoken aloud. Check the recording before relying on any number."},{"id":1,"meeting_date":"2026-01-20","body":"City Council","quote":"still made catastrophic mistakes. Not because we were reckless, but because we trusted data that looked conclusive. That experience is why I'm deeply concerned watching cities outsource suspicion to AI systems, especially through unethical companies like Flock Safety and their unsecured devices, devices that are all over this town. Because when a tool exists that makes judgment feel easier, it will be used. And human discretion quietly atrophies. In Aurora, Colorado, an automated license plate reader system falsely flagged a vehicle as stolen. A family was forced face [snorts] down on hot pavement at gunpoint. children crying, parents cuffed. That mistake ended in a $ 1.9 million settlement. In that moment, the error rate of the system didn't matter, which is about 10% by the way. The database did. Felony stops are dangerous affairs and easy to imagine one turning deadly and sudden movement or misunderstanding causing that to happen. Flock calls this safety. That's their branding. Their own patent calls it a dynamic surveillance network. It's not safety, it's surveillance. It's suspicion, not safety. The Supreme Court has been clear in Carpenter versus United States. The courts ruled that people do not lose their expectation of privacy simply by moving through public space. Long-term tracking of a person's movements requires a warrant. Flock creates as a much more intrusive record, much more intrusive record without judicial oversight. This is why deactivation is not enough. These systems collect, retain, and shared data. As long as the cameras remain, the infrastructure remains, and so does the","line_start":580,"line_end":622,"offset_ratio":0.1911,"topics":["retention","sharing","policy","civil_liberties"],"matched_terms":["flock","license plate reader"],"speaker":"","speaker_role":"","is_public":null,"source_kind":"transcript","video_url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULDc3x7gBik","document_id":1673,"caption_caveat":"Meeting quotes come from automatic captions and are approximate. They record what subject was discussed, not exact wording and never a figure spoken aloud. Check the recording before relying on any number."},{"id":2,"meeting_date":"2026-01-20","body":"City Council","quote":"It's not safety. It's AI outsourced suspicion, selfcensorship for a watch citizenry, and a system that would make Orwell roll over in his grave and ask, \"Did you even read the book?\" I urge you to remove all Flock ALPR cameras and cancel the contract with Flock Safety. Thank you. Mayor, council folks here today and those watching online. I'm Lynn Moore. Today we delve further into the city's non-compliance with the lead and copper rule. In addition to citing inspection reports and inventory records to","line_start":626,"line_end":639,"offset_ratio":0.2061,"topics":["auto_renew","public_opposition"],"matched_terms":["flock","alpr","flock safety"],"speaker":"","speaker_role":"","is_public":null,"source_kind":"transcript","video_url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULDc3x7gBik","document_id":1673,"caption_caveat":"Meeting quotes come from automatic captions and are approximate. They record what subject was discussed, not exact wording and never a figure spoken aloud. Check the recording before relying on any number."},{"id":3,"meeting_date":"2026-01-20","body":"City Council","quote":"continued mentorship to the community and your continued service. Thank you. Mayor and council. My name is Lucy Silva. I understand that on May 6, 2024, the council voted unanimously to contract with a company called Flock Safety for license plate readers. It was my understanding at the time that these readers were to collect information regarding speeders and red light runners. And now I see and hear that this is going much further beyond surveillance. uh flock safety according to the ACLU website is passing this surveillance data on to ICE. They are selling their cameras to police departments and private customers across","line_start":972,"line_end":993,"offset_ratio":0.3191,"topics":["federal_access"],"matched_terms":["flock","license plate reader","flock safety"],"speaker":"","speaker_role":"","is_public":null,"source_kind":"transcript","video_url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULDc3x7gBik","document_id":1673,"caption_caveat":"Meeting quotes come from automatic captions and are approximate. They record what subject was discussed, not exact wording and never a figure spoken aloud. Check the recording before relying on any number."},{"id":4,"meeting_date":"2026-01-20","body":"City Council","quote":"They have also, according to the ACLU website, revealed that a police officer in Texas used the systems to search nationwide for a woman who'd had an abortion illegal in their state. Flock is now expanding the power of the system itself. I urge the council to please delete this contract and remove the cameras from the Los Cru's community to keep our community safe. Thank you. Good afternoon, Mayor, City Council. My name is Fred Miller. I'm also speaking about flock cameras and I want the city to cancel the contract. But beyond that, I hope that legal will look into actually getting rid of the cameras, making sure that the flock safety company does not just move them from public property to private property. We need to limit their access even if they move them onto private property. Please look into that. Thank you. Councilors, mayor, my name is Donna","line_start":996,"line_end":1020,"offset_ratio":0.3269,"topics":["retention","sharing","auto_renew","public_opposition"],"matched_terms":["flock","flock safety"],"speaker":"","speaker_role":"","is_public":null,"source_kind":"transcript","video_url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULDc3x7gBik","document_id":1673,"caption_caveat":"Meeting quotes come from automatic captions and are approximate. They record what subject was discussed, not exact wording and never a figure spoken aloud. Check the recording before relying on any number."},{"id":5,"meeting_date":"2026-01-20","body":"City Council","quote":"bring forward next is city council member board reports and comments. Council Mccclure. Thank you, Mayor. Um I have two things specifically and the first one is that I also share a concern about flock, but I think that we're not thinking um wider even than that. Um, I went to Mvita's AI conference and I thought about cyber security in different ways that are going to be impacting us just dynamically for whatever we do. Um, I was a young in in","line_start":2666,"line_end":2678,"offset_ratio":0.8723,"topics":["sharing"],"matched_terms":["flock"],"speaker":"","speaker_role":"","is_public":null,"source_kind":"transcript","video_url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULDc3x7gBik","document_id":1673,"caption_caveat":"Meeting quotes come from automatic captions and are approximate. They record what subject was discussed, not exact wording and never a figure spoken aloud. Check the recording before relying on any number."},{"id":6,"meeting_date":"2026-01-20","body":"City Council","quote":"council Harris. Uh, thanks. So I guess I will I would also welcome further conversation on cyber security and data privacy practices um and the implications of programs that we are doing in the city uh flock potentially other things um as anyone who's been been paying attention to what I say can probably know that's that's a big thing for me cyber is my my passion and my industry and so I would I would welcome those conversations and I think they're very important uh Um,","line_start":2728,"line_end":2740,"offset_ratio":0.8926,"topics":["civil_liberties"],"matched_terms":["flock"],"speaker":"","speaker_role":"","is_public":null,"source_kind":"transcript","video_url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULDc3x7gBik","document_id":1673,"caption_caveat":"Meeting quotes come from automatic captions and are approximate. They record what subject was discussed, not exact wording and never a figure spoken aloud. Check the recording before relying on any number."},{"id":7,"meeting_date":"2026-01-20","body":"City Council","quote":"And so just a huge shout out to our staff who has led on a lot of those efforts. Thanks, Mayor. Thanks, Councelor Karin. Thank you. I I also agree that I would love for us to have a conversation about flock slash I don't I think flock just gets the publicity but I do think that the surveillance data is not as secure as we would all hope for our data to be in any situation. So um I support my colleagues and that mention that as as a priority to continue to follow up on. uh","line_start":2852,"line_end":2864,"offset_ratio":0.9331,"topics":[],"matched_terms":["flock"],"speaker":"","speaker_role":"","is_public":null,"source_kind":"transcript","video_url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULDc3x7gBik","document_id":1673,"caption_caveat":"Meeting quotes come from automatic captions and are approximate. They record what subject was discussed, not exact wording and never a figure spoken aloud. Check the recording before relying on any number."},{"id":8,"meeting_date":"2026-01-20","body":"City Council","quote":"that together. Um as we started out today, we uh had a presentation by Sister Cities and uh I always say that's a a great way to learn not only here locally or in the country but throughout the world. And I mention that because we talk about flock, we talk about technology, we talk about AI. And not too far from us, uh we have one of the uh state-of-the-art uh facilities being built and that's in Huarees, Mexico, uh for their real-time crime center. And it's a it's a","line_start":2983,"line_end":2995,"offset_ratio":0.9758,"topics":[],"matched_terms":["flock"],"speaker":"","speaker_role":"","is_public":null,"source_kind":"transcript","video_url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULDc3x7gBik","document_id":1673,"caption_caveat":"Meeting quotes come from automatic captions and are approximate. They record what subject was discussed, not exact wording and never a figure spoken aloud. Check the recording before relying on any number."},{"id":13,"meeting_date":"2026-01-05","body":"City Council","quote":"Liz Bennett, Member of the Public said I want to start off the new year by welcoming \nthe new city council members with an urgent reminder and plea as you face the work \nahead of you to please carry with you the charge to invest in care not criminalization. \nThe militarization of civilian life and the criminalization of the human struggle creeps \ninto our city through the targeting of black and brown communities, the criminalization \nof poverty, the use of lethal force in response to mental health crisis and the use of \nmass surveillance technology like the unsecured AI powered Flock cameras currently \nplaced throughout Las Cruces. I want to acknowledge that there are genuine \nconcerns to respond to around community safety but how we respond matters. The \neffectiveness, of the strategies that we use matters. A take them out and lock them up \napproach is ineffective and in fact perpetuates the cycles of poverty, trauma and \ndiscrimination that breed violence in the first place. Historical and empirical data spell \nout the facts that investing in education and employment opportunities free accessible \nCity Council Meeting January 5, 2026 \n \npublic spaces and services, opportunities to connect with peers, diversion programs \nand common-sense gun control laws are the types of initiatives that truly prevent \nharm and promote community safety particularly among young people. On the \ncontrary, incarceration often increases the likelihood of reoffending and recidivism. I \nhave provided several research articles that go into further detail. It is right here in our \nown backyards among our elected officials and community advocates where we have \nthe most power to act in accordance with our values in the face of the dangerous \nnational and local trends to maximize state aggression. Las Cruces as a community \nhas demonstrated our capacity to invest in each other’s wellbeing. It is a part of our \nidentity that we must intentionally and purposefully hold on to. Please hold this at the \nforefront of discussions on how to invest the $11 million of additional annual GRT \nfunds, keeping in mind that the community clearly voice their support for funding \nlibraries, affordable housing, parks and trails, over the harmful and traumatizing \nexpansion of carceral infrastructure.","line_start":6,"line_end":6,"offset_ratio":0.0,"topics":["cost","camera_count"],"matched_terms":["flock"],"speaker":"Liz Bennett","speaker_role":"Member of the Public","is_public":true,"source_kind":"minutes","video_url":"","document_id":24000,"caption_caveat":"Meeting quotes come from automatic captions and are approximate. They record what subject was discussed, not exact wording and never a figure spoken aloud. Check the recording before relying on any number."},{"id":14,"meeting_date":"2026-01-05","body":"City Council","quote":"Derrick Pacheco, Member of the Public said I live at 640 South Mesquite, in the \nHistoric Mesquite Neighborhood. My family has been on the block for over one \nhundred years. I am highly invested in what I am about to say right now to all of you. \nOn Wednesday, September 10th at 9:28 a.m. I asked a sitting city councilor on the \nbench right here, “could we organize a community meeting regarding the nearly 100 \nFlock cameras coming to Cruces? I don’t feel good about it at all to be honest”. The \nresponse, “let me ask Story when there might be another town hall. We are actually \ntouring RTCC tomorrow so I should have more info then”. That never happened. I am \nhere today to ask you to bring forward a resolution to cancel the city’s contract with \nFlock Safety. Remove the cameras and require deletion of locally stored data that is \nnot tied to a specific lawful investigation. Before I get into the reasons, I want to briefly \nexplain what Flock actually is because many people hear the word camera and think it \nis just another traffic cam. Flock is not a normal camera. It is a license plate \nsurveillance system that automatically photographs every vehicle that passes, records \nthe time, location, vehicle type, color, bumper stickers and travel patterns and stores \nthat info in a searchable database. A simple way to think about it especially for those \nof us who grew up before smartphones is this, imagine if in the 70’s or 80’s the city \nhad stationed a police officer on every major road, writing down every license plate \nwhere you were and when you passed even though you had done nothing wrong and \nthen kept those notebooks for months. That is what Flock does except it does it 24 \nhours a day automatically and at a scale that no human could ever do. Now let’s talk \nabout why cities from across the country are walking away from Flock. In just the past \nyear multiple cities have canceled or declined to renew their Flock contracts including \nFlagstaff, Arizona, Eugene, Oregon, Cambridge, Massachusetts, San Marcos, Texas. \nThese cities have cited concerns about privacy, cost, outreach, and lack of \nmeasurable public safety benefits and those concerns turned out to be justified. \nRecent investigative reporting revealed that live video feeds and administrative panels \nfrom Flock cameras were exposed on the open internet meaning that strangers could \nwatch real time surveillance footage and access stored data. Cities affected included \nBakersfield, California and Brookhaven, Georgia.","line_start":9,"line_end":9,"offset_ratio":0.0,"topics":["cost","civil_liberties","public_opposition"],"matched_terms":["flock safety","flock"],"speaker":"Derrick Pacheco","speaker_role":"Member of the Public","is_public":true,"source_kind":"minutes","video_url":"","document_id":24000,"caption_caveat":"Meeting quotes come from automatic captions and are approximate. They record what subject was discussed, not exact wording and never a figure spoken aloud. Check the recording before relying on any number."},{"id":12,"meeting_date":"2025-12-01","body":"City Council","quote":"Zack, Member of the Public said I am in District 2 and I am here to address several \ninterconnected issues that raise serious concerns about public trust, civil liberties and \nthe exercise of police authority in our city. First, I want to highlight the recent decision \nby Police Chief Jeremy Story to use what amounts to Hobbs Act loophole to escalate \na local arrest into a federal case. The Hobbs Act was enacted in 1946 to target \nCity Council Meeting December 1, 2025 \n \ninterstate robbery and extortion, not local disputes and its expanded use has been \ncriticized across the political spectrum. A Brennan Center analysis and Subsequent \nGAO review found that the federal prosecution of traditionally local crimes increased \nmore than 32% between 2001 and 2020, driven in part by overbroad interpretations of \nstatutes like the Hobbs Act. This practice consistently underminds local oversight and \nresearch published through the National Institute of Justice shows that when local \nauthorities bypass state systems public trust declines sharply particularly among \ncommunities already skeptical of law enforcement. This becomes even more troubling \nin the context of a broader pattern. Multiple incidents over the past few years have \nraised questions about Chief Story’s willingness to jump to immediate and radical \nconclusions such as when he put armed snipers on the roof for a peaceful protest. \nWhile an apology was issued for that it is still indicative of a pattern and when we look \nat these issues together the use of force against people, peaceful demonstrators \nfollowed by a decision to federalize a local situation through a Hobbs Act workaround \nwe see not isolated decisions but a pattern of preferred aggressive escalation over \ndemocratic local and state level solutions. If there are gaps in local or state level state \nlaw the appropriate path is collaboration with legislature and transparent public debate \nnot seeking harsher outcomes through federal channels that remove cases from \ncommunity oversight. The second major issue I would like to raise is the expansion of \nFlock license plate reader cameras. The data here is consistent. Flock shares \ninformation with over 2,000 law enforcement agencies and investigations by the \nACLU and EFF around ICE are found that ICE accessed ALPR data from at least 30 \njurisdictions, sometimes without the knowledge of the local departments providing the \ndata. Even if our city does not intend to share data with federal immigration \nenforcement once it enters regional or statrewide data bases access becomes very \ndifficult to control. Claims that Flock cameras reduce crime are mixed at best. \nIndependent studies including those from the Polling Center show no statistical \nreduction in violent crime associated with ALPR use and property crime solving \nimprovements average only 2 to 7%, often fading after the first year. Meanwhile \ncommunities, the color are scanned disproportionately.","line_start":3,"line_end":3,"offset_ratio":0.0,"topics":["federal_access","sharing","camera_count","policy","civil_liberties"],"matched_terms":["flock","license plate reader","alpr"],"speaker":"Zack","speaker_role":"Member of the Public","is_public":true,"source_kind":"minutes","video_url":"","document_id":23999,"caption_caveat":"Meeting quotes come from automatic captions and are approximate. They record what subject was discussed, not exact wording and never a figure spoken aloud. Check the recording before relying on any number."},{"id":11,"meeting_date":"2025-06-16","body":"City Council","quote":"Jovanni Hernandez, Member of the Public said I am a resident of Las Cruces and I \nwould like to share a few things. I live here in Las Cruces and I have lived here for \nquite some time and I have had many firsts here. I finished school here. I think I fell in \nlove for the first time here, also had my first real heartbreak as many of us have had. I \nhave hung out by the river when it is dry and when it is flowing. I have enjoyed many \nof our city facilities. Meerscheidt, the skate park, the Aquatic Center and also the \nlibraries and that is really cool. I have had some of the best times I have ever had \nhere in the city enjoying those facilities. In fact one of my favorite places that I kind of \nthought was kind of a sanctuary, a quiet place was the second story of the Branigan \nMemorial Library in what they call the Creators Room. There is like model ship in \nthere, there is painting supplies, there is old maps and stuff like that, a whole bunch of \nreally cool things and to be honest I didn’t really think that a whole bunch of people \nreally knew about it. There I spent time doing work and homework with my partner, \nthe love of my life where I got to see her in the beautiful light in in the afternoon that \ncomes in window there that overlooks the park. On Friday last week I was there at \nthat park protesting against racist, xenophobic, ICE, immigration and custom \nenforcement from the federal government, kidnapping people in our communities and \nI look over and I see a sniper. A man from Las Cruces Police Department with a riffle \npointing at us. We seen them over there on the Fire Department roof also and that is \nnot okay. Extremism by law enforcement against people of color, against organizers \nin this community is not something that I was really expecting. Some of these folks \nthat came before me said it best the same kind of threat of violence and that is what \nthis is was not replicated on Saturday at an organized protest with mostly white \norganizers, white leadership, white participants, a whole lot of snowbirds we know \nthem all. Instead, it was directed at one where there was finger painting, there was a \npinata and there was peaceful protest. Standards if we have them and if they are \nsubject to change mean nothing. I want to know what the city council is going to be \ndoing about that? What the city council has to say about that? What the city council \nhas to say about things like automatic license plate readers, that ICE is getting access \nto all over the country and whether or not the police department will cave to the \nfederal Trump Administration by signing a 287G Agreement like so many counties in \nNew Mexico have done already?","line_start":9,"line_end":9,"offset_ratio":0.0,"topics":["federal_access","sharing"],"matched_terms":["automatic license plate","license plate reader"],"speaker":"Jovanni Hernandez","speaker_role":"Member of the Public","is_public":true,"source_kind":"minutes","video_url":"","document_id":23998,"caption_caveat":"Meeting quotes come from automatic captions and are approximate. They record what subject was discussed, not exact wording and never a figure spoken aloud. Check the recording before relying on any number."},{"id":10,"meeting_date":"2025-06-02","body":"City Council","quote":"Michael Harris, Member of the Public said I thought I would bring up today a \ndisturbing trend I have noticed around town of automated license plate reading \ncameras. Both on private and on city right-of-ways. Cameras that I have personally \nseen appear from a company called Flock, which is very famous in the space and \nmaybe there are others that are less conspicuous. There are at least 10 of these, \nLohman, University, Missouri, and several at Lowe’s and Home Depot each. These \ncameras take photos of every car that passes day and night. They read the plate, they \nupload it to a national database which is owned and operated by this private company \nand there are no real meaningful legal restrictions on the use of that data once it is up \nthere. All you really need to look through it is a contract with Flock. Recent leaks I \nhave also revealed that Flock is building a people’s search tool so that these cameras \nthat are ostensively put in place to read license plates and monitor cars are probably \nactually monitoring everybody’s faces as well. Maybe the data that is produced is \nuseful to solve an occasional crime. I will add that just right before this meeting I \nactually heard a brief story about LCPD finding and returning some property to a \nfriend of mine because of some private cameras that were at his place of work, so \nanyway it is possible. Given the coverage in this town, it seems doubtful that you can \ntrack stolen assets using these Flock cameras with any accuracy. So, it seems like \nmainly a way for an understaffed Police Department to appear to be doing something. \nMaybe wasting a little bit of money and not spending very much effort on it. Each \ncamera cost about $2,500 per year so it is a decent chunk of money. It is not an FTE, \nit is a rounding error in the overall budget, but it would buy a few ballistic windshields \nfor cruisers which would actually help people. The real problem then is the inadvertent \none which is the constant creeping surveillance of every single resident of this city \nand potential misuse by others other than LCPD. Recently it has been revealed that \nICE despite not having their own contract with Flock regularly accesses this database \nby asking local police departments for the occasional favor. These don’t even have to \nbe the jurisdiction to whose the cameras are, and it was revealed just last Friday that \na detective in Texas went searching through the national database to find a woman \nwho had an abortion in another state, and they were concerned for her safety. The \nkicker there is that the search didn’t even find her, so it is not only a shocking \noverreach of authority but it is also a testament of how the system doesn’t really do \nthe job that maybe it was intended to in the first place. So maybe some residents are \nin favor of these use cases, but I bet it is not what the people that put the cameras up \nsigned up for. Today maybe it is used to find a stolen Kia, tomorrow maybe it is being \nused to ","line_start":6,"line_end":6,"offset_ratio":0.0,"topics":["federal_access","cost"],"matched_terms":["flock","automated license plate"],"speaker":"Michael Harris","speaker_role":"Member of the Public","is_public":true,"source_kind":"minutes","video_url":"","document_id":23997,"caption_caveat":"Meeting quotes come from automatic captions and are approximate. They record what subject was discussed, not exact wording and never a figure spoken aloud. Check the recording before relying on any number."},{"id":9,"meeting_date":"2024-04-22","body":"City Council","quote":"Chief Jeremy Story said let me just mention data retention was the one that I missed. \nRetention periods have to be balanced so that we are able to solve crimes and hold \npeople accountable for victims. But also not keep data longer where it becomes a \nconcern. The retention rates that we have set now are thirty days for license plate \nreaders. Which I think is a very reasonable amount and 7 days will be for all video. So \na week is what we plan on setting it at, which is not a lot of time, it means people have \nto move fast if there’s a crime. But it also helps assuage those fears that we’re \nkeeping data for a long time, or we can go back and put something together we \nshouldn’t.","line_start":9,"line_end":9,"offset_ratio":0.0,"topics":["retention"],"matched_terms":["license plate reader"],"speaker":"Jeremy Story","speaker_role":"Chief","is_public":false,"source_kind":"minutes","video_url":"","document_id":23996,"caption_caveat":"Meeting quotes come from automatic captions and are approximate. They record what subject was discussed, not exact wording and never a figure spoken aloud. Check the recording before relying on any number."}],"emails":[{"id":24,"subject":"Fwd: New Mexico ALPR bill awaits governor's decision - KOB.com","sender":"(withheld)","recipients":"(withheld)","sent_at":"2026-02-25T13:19:58Z","custodian":"Las Cruces city email","request_ref":"IPRA (Las Cruces city email disclosures)","excerpt":"","matched_terms":["alpr"],"kind":"constituent"},{"id":14,"subject":"Fwd: Why some cities are ditching their Flock license plate readers","sender":"(withheld)","recipients":"(withheld)","sent_at":"2026-02-22T22:40:34Z","custodian":"Las Cruces city email","request_ref":"IPRA (Las Cruces city email disclosures)","excerpt":"","matched_terms":["flock","license plate reader"],"kind":"constituent"},{"id":21,"subject":"Cities change course on license plate readers","sender":"\"ICMA SmartBrief\" ","recipients":"cmcclure@lascruces.gov","sent_at":"2026-02-20T10:10:54Z","custodian":"Las Cruces city email","request_ref":"IPRA (Las Cruces city email disclosures)","excerpt":"","matched_terms":["license plate reader"],"kind":"newsletter"},{"id":22,"subject":"Re: Positive Momentum On ALPR in New Mexico","sender":"Cassie Mcclure ","recipients":"Jeremy Story ","sent_at":"2026-02-18T12:22:07Z","custodian":"Las Cruces city email","request_ref":"IPRA (Las Cruces city email disclosures)","excerpt":"","matched_terms":["alpr"],"kind":"correspondence"},{"id":12,"subject":"FW: Positive Momentum On ALPR in New Mexico","sender":"Jeremy Story ","recipients":"Cassie Mcclure ; 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Reference page 187, line 46. You will see $2M added for \"support\" for Dona Ana, Luna, and Hidalgo counties, these are the funds allocated for migrant response. The funding will be going through DFA, and the governor's office and Rep Silva will be keeping their eyes on it.\r\n\r\nAlso attached:\r\nBSC 501(c)(3) paperwork\r\nCertificate of Good Standing with NM Sec of State\r\nFY 2023 audit (no findings)\r\n\r\nThanks,\r\n\r\nKyle Boyd, Deputy Director\r\n\r\nBorder Servant Corps\r\n575.496.1941\r\nwww.borderservantcorps.org \r\n\r\n\r\nOn Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 12:36 PM Kyle Boyd > wrote:\r\n\r\n\r\n\tWe have a bill at the drafters, but folks are telling us it's probably too late for that. We have also been told to try and get onboard with some legal funding they are working on, or to find some other place to squeeze funding in for us under HB2. This is ongoing, and we don't have any clear signs of where it may lead.\r\n\r\n\tWe will keep you posted on new developments, thanks!\r\n\r\n\tKyle Boyd, Deputy Director\r\n\t\r\n\tBorder Servant Corps\r\n\t575.496.1941\r\n\twww.borderservantcorps.org \r\n\r\n\r\n\tOn Mon, Feb 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM Barbara Bencomo > wrote:\r\n\t\r\n\r\n\t\tHello Kyle,\r\n\r\n\t\t \r\n\r\n\t\tI’m picking up this email thread separately from our discussions on GRO. Wanted to check in to see if there is progress regarding a bill or budget line item to support the mission since it sounds like GRO may be in doubt. 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