David Crowley on Flock cameras, gubernatorial debate

Your office tells us you plan on not recommending funding to FLOC for next year. Can you tell us why? We're still going through the budget process. We have not released any of that information, but we'll make sure you get that information as soon as it's released. I mean they told us via email that you don't plan to fund it. So can you talk about why? I mean I think it's very clear as to why. You know we've already put guidance out there as it relates to the FLOC cameras and making sure that we have guardrails and protecting people's privacy. And so until we have the process and procedures in place, I don't think that Milwaukee County should be running these cameras. Is that ending the contract altogether with FLOC or with license plate readers altogether? I just know that we're doing what we're doing right now through the budget, not through the budget process, but trying to see what we can do right now. All the contracts within the Sheriff's Department, you will have to talk to the Sheriff's specifically about that. We got word yesterday that the WEA debate on October 9th is going to be canceled. Your office said that you were looking forward to it. So why is it canceled? Well, did you have to ask Congressman Tom Tiffany's campaign on why it's canceled? We were looking forward to participating in that debate. We want to get our voters the opportunity to know which each candidate brings to the table. I'm never, never looking to run away from a debate or run away from the cameras, but unfortunately my opponent is. So you agreed to the WEA debate? Yeah, we did. And are you open then to doing another debate besides the one that's scheduled? Again, you probably should be talking to my campaign. We're not the ones who decided not to attend the debate. You talk to Congressman Thompson on tablets. We covered the Tiffany event. I talked to both your campaign and your official staff yesterday about tablets. We specifically covered the event in May, where a man was allegedly contacting his victim 1500 times via jail issued tablet. Can you tell us what safeguards have been put in place since that? Well, this is a situation that I take very seriously, and we're having ongoing conversations with the Sheriff's Department to figure out what the process was and and actually how this actually happens. But when it comes down to my opponent, I'm not paying attention to what he has to say on public safety, right? At the end of the day, he actually he what he has omitted is that he's voted at the department at the state level for the Department of Corrections to administer this same type of program under Scott Walker's leadership. He's voted to defund our police officers, and I would love for him to continue to ask for you all to continue to ask him as to why he voted against releasing the Epstein Fox. But specifically, as the county executive on that side of it, your official capacity have any new safeguards been put in place since that 1500 messages were again, we're continuously having ongoing conversations with the Sheriff's Department about the processes and procedures moving forward. Do you support restrictions on those devices? Look, this is something that is that is in place in 48 out of 50 states, and we need to still continue to have conversations about what exactly happened here. But I always believe that we need to put safeguards in place. We want to make sure they were protecting our victims in the state of Wisconsin, no matter what the case may be. Do you think the county did enough in this specific circumstance? This judge and Tiffany are talking about again. He's omitting the fact that he actually voted on behalf of these I pass at the at the state level, you know, and this is the best practice and not just the state of Wisconsin in all 48 other states are 47 other states. But even the Trump administration and his administration is actually implementing this exact same program right now, federally just this this year. So we're gonna continue to have those conversations. But again, he's just consistently lying about my record because he has nothing to stand on.