🌱 Patch AM: Why Foster leaders pulled the plug on license-plate cameras

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• Why Foster leaders pulled the plug on license-plate cameras

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📰 News we're reading

• Foster Town Council Cancels Flock Safety Camera Contract (news-usa.today) — Foster residents should know the Town Council has voted to end its contract with Flock Safety, shutting off the automated license-plate reader cameras after extensive public testimony and a detailed vendor presentation. Councilors questioned data retention, access by outside departments, and past abuses elsewhere before deciding the system would no longer operate in town.
   

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Night Moo-s (Thank you John S. for sending it in!)
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