{"id":244746,"date":"2026-05-12T18:26:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T22:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/local-communities-cancel-flock-camera-contracts-over-privacy-concerns\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T19:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T23:05:11","slug":"local-communities-cancel-flock-camera-contracts-over-privacy-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/local-communities-cancel-flock-camera-contracts-over-privacy-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Local communities cancel Flock camera contracts over privacy concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbay.com\/2026\/05\/12\/local-communities-cancel-flock-camera-contracts-over-privacy-concerns\/\">Local communities cancel Flock camera contracts over privacy concerns<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbay.com\/2026\/05\/12\/local-communities-cancel-flock-camera-contracts-over-privacy-concerns\/\">https:\/\/www.wbay.com\/2026\/05\/12\/local-communities-cancel-flock-camera-contracts-over-privacy-concerns\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-12 18:26:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.wbay.com\">www.wbay.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">WISCONSIN (WBAY) \u2014 Several local communities are grappling with a public safety issue involving Flock cameras.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The automatic license plate readers have been hailed as a groundbreaking tool for law enforcement, able to catch criminals after spotting their vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">But several municipalities including Oshkosh and Appleton have canceled their contracts with Flock due to concerns about privacy and several incidents of misuse of the technology by law enforcement agencies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Jim Palmer, executive director of the Wisconsin Professional Police Association, discusses the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WBAY. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbay.com\/2026\/05\/12\/local-communities-cancel-flock-camera-contracts-over-privacy-concerns\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local communities cancel Flock camera contracts over privacy concerns https:\/\/www.wbay.com\/2026\/05\/12\/local-communities-cancel-flock-camera-contracts-over-privacy-concerns\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-12 18:26:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":244747,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/gray-wbay-prod.gtv-cdn.com\/resizer\/v2\/YSKKGM3ZKZEL7FCL5HZHDQAWNI.jpg?auth=ec346528c1934977491840b8a6744338241f95e95820b2fef805d7be65d29e91&width=1200&height=600&smart=true","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244746","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\/244746"}],"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=244746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244748,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244746\/revisions\/244748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}