Flock cameras

A Madison Heights resident asked three questions: what was disclosed before the county Flock vote, why public comment was moved after the April vote, and whether county Flock cameras in Madison Heights will be removed after the city pulled out.

Asked for open Q&A meetings with the sheriff and regulation of LPR data collection before further spending.

Thanked the board for good agenda items but asked it to address unethical contracts and warned all technology can be hacked.

Southfield resident who weighed risks versus benefits and concluded the cameras do more harm than good until regulated.

Briefly said Flock is untrustworthy and money should go to food and legal help instead.

Warned that Flock data goes to Amazon cloud servers and is accessible to ICE, and said multiple municipalities have canceled Flock contracts.

Said ICE kidnappings have cut Pontiac school enrollment and urged the county to end its Flock contract and fund SWIRC legal aid.

Cited a 404 Media/Wired report on hackers extracting Flock camera data and urged rejection of surveillance funding.

Said she was 'gobsmacked' by the earlier Flock vote over 200 constituents' objections; urged fiscal redirection to roads and action on ICE.

Argued the board represents the people and shouldn't impose a surveillance state 'without listening to us'; criticized Commissioner Johnson's absence.