Flock cameras

Cited Oakland County Sheriff's cancellation of its Flock contract renewal and alleged ethics issues, urging the council to reconsider Troy's Flock use.

Urged the council to cancel or restrict Flock license plate cameras, citing the Eastpointe misuse case, neighboring communities' cancellations, and arguing residents don't want to be tracked.

A Sterling Heights nurse argued Flock cameras run on unpatched outdated software and can trigger dangerous high-risk felony stops on innocent families.

A retired GM engineer cited a claimed 27 percent error rate for Flock plate reads in Michigan and recalled real wrongful-stop cases in Aurora and Toledo.

A lighting and surveillance executive who lives in Troy said the cameras were approved through a subcontract without a real deliberative process, and warned of disproportionate impacts on people with darker skin amid ICE enforcement.

Cited documented police misuse of Flock systems in other states and her own experience as a stalking and assault survivor, and noted medical-cannabis patients could be exposed by plate data.

Argued the tracking is un-American, citing other Michigan cities that canceled Flock contracts and urging the council to listen to constituents.

A data scientist raised cybersecurity concerns about trusting a private company with plate data in a city with a strong safety record that has never needed ALPRs.

Reflected on the post-9/11 expansion of the surveillance state and urged the council to cancel the cameras as a step toward dismantling it.

A lifelong resident argued automated enforcement systems will inevitably be used as designed as capabilities grow, and asked the city to cancel the contract.

Supported the firefighters getting what they deserve, and asked the city to be transparent with residents about pending firefighter lawsuits before voting on incentive plan changes.

Argued networked cameras create warrantless surveillance and suggested an offline, locally-stored alternative.

Echoed privacy concerns, saying police could query his data without his knowledge.

Called Flock an unwarranted surveillance tool that outsources policing to a private company for profit.

Cited the Florida officer who searched his estranged wife's plate 717 times, arguing Troy's audits are reactive, not preventive.

Claimed Flock data feeds immigration enforcement through cloud providers and urged the council to shut the cameras down.

Delivered a two-month research case against Flock, rejecting any compromise and urging the council to end the contract before residents force the issue.

The Troy High senior told the story of a misread plate that led to guns drawn and a mauling, and cited police stalking abuses in other states.

Urged cancellation, citing ACLU findings, the Texas abortion-tracking case, and Ferndale's and Dayton's contract cancellations.

Called the cameras an unconstitutional national dragnet that tracks people without any terms-of-service agreement.

An attorney and Democratic Club chair, he acknowledged Flock's policing benefits but said the societal costs outweigh them.

A new Troy resident praised the city's safety and disputed claims that the cameras don't reduce auto theft, citing Detroit recovery statistics.

A late-arriving speaker argued no safeguards can bind a for-profit vendor over time and urged the city not to build the surveillance infrastructure at all.

Urges the council to end the Flock ALPR contract, citing warrantless national database access, misuse in other jurisdictions, and a recent Supreme Court location-data ruling; calls it for-profit mass surveillance.