Atlanta’s Public Safety Committee is considering legislation that would impose new oversight on Flock cameras and other surveillance technology.
The proposal calls for monthly audits of police use, reporting of violations, restrictions on third-party vendors profiting from collected personal data and a Surveillance Technology Review Panel.
The core policy tradeoff is familiar but increasingly urgent: license-plate readers can be useful investigative tools, while large searchable databases of vehicle movements create privacy and misuse risks that did not exist at the same scale a decade ago.