{"id":250847,"date":"2026-05-20T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/troy-police-license-plate-data-storage-sparks-debate-over-privacy\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T18:50:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T22:50:45","slug":"troy-police-license-plate-data-storage-sparks-debate-over-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/troy-police-license-plate-data-storage-sparks-debate-over-privacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Troy police license plate data storage sparks debate over privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wnyt.com\/top-stories\/troy-police-license-plate-data-storage-sparks-debate-over-privacy\/\">Troy police license plate data storage sparks debate over privacy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wnyt.com\/top-stories\/troy-police-license-plate-data-storage-sparks-debate-over-privacy\/\">https:\/\/wnyt.com\/top-stories\/troy-police-license-plate-data-storage-sparks-debate-over-privacy\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-20 16:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"wnyt.com\">wnyt.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TROY, N.Y. (WNYT)- After months of heated debate over Flock license plate reader cameras in Troy, city leaders have agreed to a temporary compromise that keeps the cameras active while officials spend the next 60 days reviewing how the technology is used and whether additional privacy protections are needed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: Troy license plate cameras stay on with new 60-day privacy rules<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The agreement follows weeks of tension between Troy residents, city council members, police officials, and Mayor Carmella Mantello over concerns surrounding surveillance, privacy, and law enforcement access to collected data.<\/p>\n<p>Under the updated policy, Troy police would only be allowed to access Flock\u2019s nationwide database in violent felony investigations with approval from the police chief. The policy also prohibits the cameras from being used for immigration enforcement and limits data sharing to law enforcement agencies within New York State.<\/p>\n<p>City officials say the next two months will help determine how frequently the cameras are used and whether additional safeguards should be added moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>But for some residents, the agreement does not go far enough.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it was a bit premature,\u201d said Frances Sweet, a South Troy resident who has spoken out against the cameras.<\/p>\n<p>Sweet said one of her biggest concerns is that residents were never fully consulted before the technology was implemented in the city.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s the concept of surveillance without public input,\u201d Sweet said. \u201cWe didn\u2019t get the chance to ever be consulted whether we want this form of surveillance in our town or not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another resident and privacy advocate, Deirdre Shea, said she remains concerned that the cameras will continue operating during the 60-day review period.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiving the police sixty more days to go through this process is sixty more days that our data is being collected without our consent, and we have a problem with that,\u201d Shea said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:\u00a0Dispute between city&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wnyt.com\/top-stories\/troy-police-license-plate-data-storage-sparks-debate-over-privacy\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Troy police license plate data storage sparks debate over privacy https:\/\/wnyt.com\/top-stories\/troy-police-license-plate-data-storage-sparks-debate-over-privacy\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-20 16:00:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":250848,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wnyt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Flock-camera-debate-continues-in-Troy.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250847","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\/250847"}],"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=250847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250849,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250847\/revisions\/250849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}