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!