Citizens Oppose New FLOCK Surveillance in Utica Utica Phoenix

This local news and advocacy piece from the Utica Phoenix (May 25, 2026) reports that citizens spoke against the city's planned contract with FLOCK for video, audio and AI-enabled surveillance, including license plate readers and facial recognition cameras. People likely land on it searching for information on FLOCK, ALPRs and civil liberties concerns; the available content is cut off mid-article, so detail beyond the opening is thin.

Utica, NY area residents and civic-minded readers, plus privacy and civil liberties researchers, mostly in the United States.

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