{"id":218561,"date":"2026-02-28T14:24:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T19:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/28\/privacy-advocates-trying-to-get-flock-license-plate-cams-in-cheyenne-removed\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T18:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T23:30:11","slug":"privacy-advocates-trying-to-get-flock-license-plate-cams-in-cheyenne-removed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/28\/privacy-advocates-trying-to-get-flock-license-plate-cams-in-cheyenne-removed\/","title":{"rendered":"Privacy Advocates Trying To Get Flock License Plate Cams In Cheyenne Removed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cowboystatedaily.com\/2026\/02\/28\/petition-says-cheyennes-flock-license-plate-cams-invade-privacy\/\">Privacy Advocates Trying To Get Flock License Plate Cams In Cheyenne Removed<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cowboystatedaily.com\/2026\/02\/28\/petition-says-cheyennes-flock-license-plate-cams-invade-privacy\/\">https:\/\/cowboystatedaily.com\/2026\/02\/28\/petition-says-cheyennes-flock-license-plate-cams-invade-privacy\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-28 14:24:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"cowboystatedaily.com\">cowboystatedaily.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"_1uhbe1z1 _1uhbe1z0\">The license plate of a vehicle involved in a carjacking in Broomfield, Colorado, turned up in Cheyenne last weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_1uhbe1z1 _1uhbe1z0\">Police there had put the license plate of the vehicle in question into\u00a0the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) database.\u00a0A Flock camera in Cheyenne picked up the license plate number with its automated plate recognition software.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"_1uhbe1z1 _1uhbe1z0\">According to Cheyene Police Department spokesperson Alex Farkas, police\u00a0officers responded to the location of the initial plate hit, but were unable to find the vehicle. They remained in the vicinity, anticipating another alert from the Flock camera system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_1uhbe1z1 _1uhbe1z0\">That alert came a few hours later when another Flock camera detected the stolen vehicle. <\/p>\n<p class=\"_1uhbe1z1 _1uhbe1z0\">Officers located the vehicle and arrested a Cheyenne man on suspicion of felony motor vehicle theft and possession of methamphetamine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_1uhbe1z1 _1uhbe1z0\">Farkas said the Flock system provided timely plate detection alerts, allowing officers to quickly locate the vehicle and take the suspect into custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_1uhbe1z1 _1uhbe1z0\">While they&#8217;ve proven helpful for law enforcement, a growing number of people are raising privacy concerns about whether the cameras go too far in monitoring law-abiding citizens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_1uhbe1z1 _1uhbe1z0\">A petition organized by the Laramie County Democrats wants the cameras removed, calling the surveillance system a &#8220;digital dragnet that monitors thousands of innocent Cheyenne residents every day to catch a handful of criminals.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"_1uhbe1z1 _1uhbe1z0\">Ted Hanlon, chairman of the Laramie County Democrats, presented the petition to the Cheyenne City Council this week. <\/p>\n<p class=\"_1uhbe1z1 _1uhbe1z0\">The petition had 779 signatures between Dec. 29, 2025, and Feb. 22, 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"_1uhbe1z1 _1uhbe1z0\">The petition and dialogue surrounding the Flock cameras highlights rising public concern about the cameras\u2019 technology and the potential for privacy overreach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_1uhbe1z1 _1uhbe1z0\">\u201cI assume all of us are concerned about surveillance,\u201d\u00a0said Cheyenne City Council Member Pete Laybourne during the meeting after Hanlon read the petition into the record. \u201cBut when you don\u2019t trust and when you don\u2019t believe the facts&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cowboystatedaily.com\/2026\/02\/28\/petition-says-cheyennes-flock-license-plate-cams-invade-privacy\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Privacy Advocates Trying To Get Flock License Plate Cams In Cheyenne Removed https:\/\/cowboystatedaily.com\/2026\/02\/28\/petition-says-cheyennes-flock-license-plate-cams-invade-privacy\/ Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":218562,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cowboystatedaily.imgix.net\/Flock-cameras-with-circle-IMG_5605-2.28.26.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218561"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218563,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218561\/revisions\/218563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}