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Amid Community Pressure, City Halts Plate Reader Camera Contract

March 9, 2026 Michael Powers, People's World. , , ,
Coralville, Iowa—Following a meeting on February 24, the Coralville City Council voted 3-1 to cancel its $36,000 contract with Flock Safety and remove the city’s automated license plate reader cameras (ALPRs). The decision follows months of community pressure and a recent legal threat from the Iowa Attorney General’s office regarding the city’s restrictions on the cameras for immigration enforcement. The controversy dates back nearly a year, when the $36,000 contract was first signed by the police chief without prior public discussion or a dedicated City Council vote.

Camera System Feeds Information To Police On Drivers Nationwide

November 27, 2025 Tyler Walicek, Truthout. , , ,
The United States public has been treated to round after round of revelations disclosing that our actions — public and private, digital and physical, criminalized and legal — are tracked and surveilled in a bevy of ways. New realms of egregious privacy violations and excesses continue to be regularly broached by corporations and police. One of the most concerning contemporary cases is that of the AI-enabled security camera start-up Flock Safety, which, by surveilling enormous expanses of public terrain and facilitating the tracking of innocent individuals, is both testing the limits of warrantless dragnet surveillance and indulging in extremes of vacuous start-up hype and negligent absurdity.
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