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Florida congressman introduces bill requiring warrants for Flock cameras
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Flock Safety operates about 120000 licence-plate readers.
Republican representative Greg Steube introduced a bill that would require federal agencies to obtain judicial warrants before buying, operating, accessing or sharing data from networked licence-plate readers. The proposal also links some federal grants to similar restrictions by local police.
- Greg Steube
- Facilitating Liberty and Accountability for Flock Observations Act
- Flock Safety
- United States
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Greg Steube introduced the Facilitating Liberty and Accountability for Flock Observations Act.
“Greg Steube’s Facilitating Liberty and Accountability for Flock Observations (Flafo) Act, introduced on Friday”
The bill would require a judicial warrant before federal agencies could buy, operate, access or share data from networked licence-plate readers.
“would require a judicial warrant before federal agencies could buy, operate, access or share data with networked licence plate readers”
The bill would make US Department of Justice grants to local police conditional on adopting similar warrant rules.
“make US Department of Justice grants to local police conditional on their adopting similar rules”