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Cleveland ended its Flock contract. The cameras are still on. | More Perfect Union (www.youtube.com)

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Since 2023, Cleveland has been home to 100 of Flock’s license plate readers. And on June 17, the Cleveland City Council voted 3-1 against renewing the city’s contract with Flock Safety. Meaning the contract expired as of Monday, and the cameras should no longer be running. But the cameras are still running.

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[–] aramis87@fedia.io 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Some of the towns that wanted to end their contracts but couldn't have put plastic garbage bags over the cameras.

[–] damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Couldn’t end a contract???

[–] wr2623@midwest.social 2 points 1 month ago

That's the whole point of contracts, you can't just cancel them. Some contracts have ways out if that was how they were negotiated.

Something like this with a lot of expensive hardware was probably set up to pay off that hardware over the life of the contract, so flock isn't going to let you out of it until they have recouped their hardware+install+removal costs. The only way out might be to pay the full term of the contract which the city wouldn't have budgeted to do in a single year.