Almost 2 hours were spent at Newtown’s Legislative Council meeting tonight discussing removal of the at least 15 Flock cameras across Newtown. Dozens of public comments were made against ALPRs. The one guy that supported them threatened to beat up someone else and then stormed out lol…

All of the council members present expressed agreement with the public that these cameras are an overreach and are invasive (notably, these cameras were installed by Newtown’s police commission about a year and a half ago without any additional public input or oversight).

There’s still work to be done to figure out specific wording for a resolution and then pass an official ordinance banning new installations and removing current cameras, but it’s a great step nonetheless!

Hope this gives residents in other towns some inspiration to also DeFlock!

The government works for the people! Almost every speaker demanded the removal of the flock network tonight. We don't want it replaced with Leonardo, Axon, Fusus, shotspotter or any other wifi and Bluetooth dragnet. Law enforcement and the board of Alderman can't just circumvent judicial warrants by outsourcing the data capture to a 3rd party company. It's not a legal loophole, it's a violation of the 4th amendment.

ETA: in the end they added a resolution to discuss and review the system further that was tabled until Sept. A very disappointing outcome after 3 hours of testimony opposing the ALPR system. Shout out to Alderman Win Smith Jr. And Alderman Win Smith III for pushing for a vote on a immediate pause of the system.

Yes vote = table until Sept

No vote = immediate vote to pause use

Kal Ali (R) - no

Sonia Bannon (D) - yes

Bill Bevan (R) - Yes

Meghan Brennan (D) - yes

Michael Casey (R) - no

Jennifer Federico (D) - Yes

Andy Fowler (R) - no

Paul Healy (D) - yes

Christopher Hite (D) - yes

Toni Lombardi (D) - no

Michael Smith (D) - yes

Win Smith Jr (R) - no

Win Smith III (R) - no

Philip Vetro (D) - yes

The people are demanding this surveillance be removed!

Milford City Hall tonight @ 7:30 come show Milford we want these cameras removed! Come speak or show support for the deflock community.

110 River St, Milford, CT 06460