# Flock cameras spark nationwide safety vs. privacy debate
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defending it news nation's
Bennett haber Lee has more.
And intersections across
the country flock cameras
captured the make model and
license plate numbers of every
car that drives by law
enforcement can and store that
data on average of 30 days
regardless of whether that
person has committed a crime.
Flock says more than 12,000
communities across the country
rely on their Tech and that
its help solve a new in
crimes, including recovering
stolen cars and helping to
locate thousands of missing
children.
I started this company 2
co-founders because we believe
that everyone has a
fundamental right to be safe.
But critics of the company
like the open source website
diff lock and the ACLU say its
capabilities are too
far-reaching in recent weeks
police officers in multiple
states are being investigated
for misuse and officer in
North Carolina lost her job
after using flock to to to
look up her partner's ex wife
dozens of times. Her former
police chief said this week
other officers are also under
investigation has been a game
changer for us.
What we've been able to
accomplish here. But it all
goes up in smoke. When you
have cops like this Wylie the
systems I think it's an
important conversation we
should
To be clear any level of
abuse greater than 0 of flock
or police tool is unacceptable
when you're given power which
is what we give to local law
enforcement accountability has
to be there. And so as we were
talking about earlier we
introduced a tool. 9 years ago
long. We've continued to make
improvements on flex CEO says
their internal auditing tool
can track any time anyone
conducts a search, it's
something they've upgraded in
the last 4 months.
But it's not the first time
flock is had to course correct
last summer an Illinois Police
Department discovered that
other law enforcement agencies
across the country at access.
Their flock data unbeknownst
to them. Flock ended up
closing a backdoor loophole
but the controversy stuck.
Dozens of local governments
across the country have
canceled or rejected their
flock contracts, including Oak
Park a Chicago suburb, their
mayor vicky's came and spoke
with news nation about the
decision it was very
challenging.
To try to balance keeping
all of our community safe and
protecting human rights, but
at the end of the day in our
Constitution and he meant it
and human rights hast always
when you