The Michigan Capitol Commission discussed installing Flock Safety cameras around Capitol Square last year.
The cameras are assisted by artificial intelligence and take photos of vehicles as they pass by to create a database of license plates that is searchable by law enforcement.
But Executive Director Robert Blackshaw says the idea is, “a thought that will not move any further.” That’s as some residents raise privacy concerns about how data is collected, stored, used and shared.
Lansing City Council members voted 7-1 last week to ask Mayor Andy Schor and the Lansing Police Department to stop using the cameras installed throughout the city.
In an automated reply, Flock Safety says its media relations team is, quote, “touching grass and taking a break.”
The company says it will return emails, quote, “when we’ve had a snack and regained the ability to form coherent sentences.”
