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Eugene Police Chief Chris Skinner says
the decision made Friday night to
terminate the contract with Fox Safety
came after one camera was inadvertently
activated. The camera collected data
while turned on. He says that was the
tipping point.
With that vulnerability, I just felt
like we were at a place where until I
can say, you know, 100% beyond the
shadow of the doubt that that's not
going to ever happen again, I needed to
make a tough decision. And so I did
that. Even though the camera collected
data, Eugene police say it saw no
evidence of the images being accessed or
camera data searched while the camera
was on. They say the camera could have
been turned on by a flock technician
like what happened in Springfield or
remotely. But what Eugene police can't
explain is why only one camera out of
the 57 deactivated throughout the city
was accidentally turned on.
What we believed to have happened was
that there was an error message and upon
fixing that error me message, it
rebooted the camera. It stayed on for a
period of time uh unbeknownst to us and
and we were made aware of that and so we
acted very quickly after that
and the camera had been turned off
before EPD terminated their contract
with Flock.
I don't know the time frame in which the
camera was on and off. I just know when
it was when it was brought to my
attention and how quickly we we acted.
There's no timeline on the removal of
the cameras as Flock Safety installed
the cameras so they will be the ones to
take them down. Reporting in Eugene, I'm
Israel Laru.