Butler Privacy Project
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I'm a Liberty Township resident. I support real investigations, but I don't support keeping a searchable record of where everyone drives.
Please vote to end the Flock program and remove the township-funded cameras. Release the contract and policies so residents can see them, and in the meantime, pause the cameras and turn off outside data sharing as interim protection, not as a substitute for removal.
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I am a Liberty Township resident. My concern tonight is how our money is being spent on a surveillance system I don't think we should have at all. Township police-service dollars are paying for a vendor-hosted database that tracks residents' movements, and residents have not been shown the contract, the renewal terms, the sharing settings, or any audit results. I'm asking the Trustees to end this program and remove the cameras. Short of that, release those records and vote in public before any renewal, but understand that disclosure alone does not answer why the township should keep paying for this.
I am a Liberty Township resident, and this is about ordinary privacy on my own street. These cameras do not just record suspects. They log when my family, my neighbors, and everyone driving through comes and goes, and they keep that history in a searchable database. Most of us are not suspected of anything. I am asking the Trustees to vote to remove this system. Pausing it and turning off outside sharing in the meantime helps, but it does not answer the basic question of why we should keep a permanent record of our daily movements sitting with a private company at all.
I am a Liberty Township resident, and my concern is where this data can travel. The same Sheriff's Office that runs these cameras is one of only four in Ohio holding both a Flock contract and a 287(g) immigration agreement with ICE, and its deputies can now act on immigration during routine traffic stops. Ninety minutes away, Dayton just covered its cameras after finding thousands of immigration-related searches of its data, even with policies supposedly in place. That is exactly why I don't think tighter sharing rules are enough here. Policies can be violated or changed later, but a camera that has been removed can't leak anyone's data. I am asking the Trustees to remove this system, not just tighten who can search it.
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