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Gardner Kansas cancels Flock camera contract over data access and privacy concerns
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Gardner, Kansas discontinued its Flock Safety automated license plate reading cameras and canceled its contract after critics revealed over 1,200 vendors had access to the collected data.
A municipality reversed course on surveillance technology specifically because of the breadth of third-party data sharing, not just the collection itself. Flock responded by shortening data retention from 30 days to seven and requiring a criminal case number for searches, but the city's action does not extend to cameras operated by the county or state within the same jurisdiction.
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Gardner City Council voted to immediately turn off city-owned Flock cameras and cancel the contract for the automated license plate reading system.
Over 1,200 vendors had access to information collected through the Flock system, according to the No Flock in Gardner movement.
Flock announced it will reduce data retention from 30 days to seven days and require a criminal case number for database searches.
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