A Springfield city councilor has proposed an ordinance to ban Flock surveillance cameras, according to MassLive, raising a policy question about a system the Police Department has used since 2023.
The proposal comes after a longer history of automated license plate scanning in Springfield. MassLive reported that the department began using automatic license plate readers in 2011, about 12 years before it started using Flock cameras.
That distinction separates the department’s adoption of plate-reading technology from its later use of Flock equipment. The available source summary does not establish whether the proposed ordinance would also affect other license plate readers.
The summary identifies the measure as a councilor’s proposal, not an enacted ban. It does not provide the ordinance’s language, the councilor’s name, a police response or a schedule for council consideration.
