California city canceled Flock, removed its cameras, then found the company had put some of them back

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Why it matters: Once again, Flock is making headlines it would rather avoid: the company has admitted that it reinstalled its cameras in a California city after the police force canceled its contract and took them down. Flock, for its part, is pointing to an automated system that thought the cameras going offline meant there was a fault, though it also seems to be blaming the city for removing its cameras too quickly.

Grass Valley, California, is one of the many cities that have dropped Flock license plate cameras. It comes as the company faces criticism over the extent of its devices' surveillance network, the sharing of data with other agencies, the cost, and, most controversially, their misuse by police officers.

However, Fox40reports that less than a month after Grass Valley Police...

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