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Flock keeps ignoring requests to cancel its contracts
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Cities are canceling Flock contracts, but the company won’t take them down and sometimes is reinstalling them.
Cities are canceling Flock contracts, but the company won’t take them down and sometimes is reinstalling them.
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While more cities are canceling their contracts with Flock Safety, just as many are discovering how difficult that can be in some instances. Plymouth, Minnesota’s city council voted to terminate its contract with Flock in September, but failed to respond to the city’s request. For over a month, the cameras remained up, and the city had received no acknowledgment from the company. So, Police Chief Eric Fadden took matters into his own hands and physically disconnected the cameras.
“After hearing nothing for more than a week, I directed our staff to disconnect the power cords from the cameras in order to be sure that they are not functioning or recording plates,” Fadden told The Drive.
Roughly 20 miles up the road, Dayton, Minnesota, is having its own issues with Flock. In this instance, the company acknowledged the city’s request and said it would take up to 60 days to remove the equipment. Despite this, Flock reconnected two cameras within the city limits without authorization, and following a specific request from the local police not to complete the work order.