Last week, local governments took some big votes they had pushed off to the final meetings of the year, a state agency made an unprecedented decision in a decades-old Santa Cruz County controversy, and the county’s Democratic machine picked the people and measures it wants to see succeed in the March 5 primary.
Flock Safety cameras
Lookout news and Community Voices opinion coverage of Flock Safety automated license plate readers in Santa Cruz County.
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Santa Cruz City Council delays vote on installing license plate readers over privacy concerns
The Santa Cruz Police Department asked the city council if it could lease automated license plate readers that would record each license plate that crosses the cameras’ lenses. Many residents and some organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union, urged caution, saying they don’t want anything resembling an Orwellian surveillance state in the community. Faced […]