Flock surveillance cameras face new oversight in Milford after community privacy concerns

And new this morning, following months of public backlash, a local city decided to significantly increase public oversight of citywide surveillance cameras. The Milford Board of Alders in Connecticut voted unanimously. The newly approved measure requires the panel to sign off on any new surveillance tech expansions or contract renewals. It also gives the police chief 90 days to hand over a full public list of all active vendors and annual costs. The decision follows massive community push over the city's Deployment of Flock Safety Condor cameras, which city leaders voted to pause over the summer amid concerns about privacy violations and data breaches. It's a third party company that's storing all our information, which could be hacked. Get rid of it and start over and let the public vote on it. If Milford needs cameras, then they should be closed circuit so that only the Milford Police Department has access to them. While local law enforcement defended the tech as a indispensable crime fighting tool, city leaders emphasize that this bipartisan resolution will finally give residents a clear voice in the oversight process.