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Denver's ditching its controversial flock surveillance cameras,
planning to replace them with
surveillance cameras made by a company called Axon.
Getting rid of the flock cameras may be easier said than done.
90s reporter Spencer Sayer is here with more on that.
Hey,
Spencer.
Hey,
so unlike Axon,
Flox has a leasing model,
so the cameras are flock.
Property
and even though they're on city poles and signals,
Flock has told Denver that it has
the ability to decommission the cameras electronically,
a button that says
decommission,
but some city council members said today
they wanna put some sort of hood or cap on the cameras,
and recent history shows there's a good reason for that.
So that's not a doggy bag on a pole,
that's a flock camera in a trash bag
in Verona,
Wisconsin.
The mayor there told me their contract expired at the end of last year
and their police department asked Flock to remove its cameras.
They didn't.
The city kept asking no dice for two months,
so about 1 month ago
they were done waiting and took out the trash bags and black tape
and made sure those cameras were no longer collecting any data.
City council members in Denver asserted today that
Flock saying they will turn off their cameras
versus actually removing them
is important.
It's,
it's pretty clear that they're being monitored.
So,
you know,
they weren't responding to requests from the Police Department,
but as soon as they were covered and they weren't working,
then,
then Flock came
and took them down.
So you think that they were still up and running at the time?
Oh,
they absolutely.
Flock screams,
says Dcom,
gives me
no confidence at all,
and we need a timeline for removal,
potentially hoods on those cameras the minute that contract ends.
In Evanston,
Illinois,
they got rid of Flock and Flock took their cameras.
Then the city said Flock reinstalled them.
The Evanston Roundtable reported
that the city issued a cease and desist,
and Flock responded saying the city
was still under contract with them,
uh.
DPD commander said today it's going to work with Flock to
get the cameras removed as soon as the contract ends,
but Flock told us that DPD has requested
that no cameras be taken down
before the contract ends on the last day
of this month.
Spencer Sawcher,
9 News.