Austin (KXAN) – Salama Al -Qatha, a Austin Police is used to operate the automatic license reader programIt has delivered a lengthy statement “appointing a straight record” amid concerns about the privacy of data and how to use technology.
“With the spirit of this transparency, and in response to modern reports, I want to dismantle exactly how our products operate and how we can enable public safety as expected legally and socially in their jurisdiction. But let’s start with reports that depend on Clickbait and social media touches that drive.
Previous coverage of the Austin Licensing Reader Program:
- The vote of the license plate reader was postponed in the community, the council’s fears
- Safety leaders ask the privacy of the Austin Licensing reader data
- APD: Licensing painting readers help solve crimes
- Cameras of the Licensing Panel operating in Austin under a new updated policy
Langley first addressed the idea that the technology of the license board reader can be used or used to track down people looking for reproductive health care outside the state. The safety of the herd referred to an article from Texas, which she says is “unambiguously wrong.”
“In the aftermath of this event, Flock conducted a review of all searches conducted on Flock LPR and did not find one reliable law to enforce the system using the system to determine the location of weak women looking for health care,” Langley wrote.
Langley also addressed fears that technology can be exploited by federal agencies for immigration enforcement purposes. He pointed to many cases in which local law enforcement agencies have worked voluntarily with federal agencies for major operations, including a case to treat sex trafficking for children.
“In all these cases, local law enforcement, who are Flock customers,Choose work with federal authoritiesFor the safety of their societies. “This was not a” back door “in a flock, as some in the media claimed – these cases and many other cases represent active options, within the limits of the law, which were made by the local police to protect the people who swore to the service,” Langley wrote.
He continued: “In some states and judicial states, the application of local law works with the federal authorities to impose immigration crimes. In other states and judicial states, this is illegal for all the state law or is considered socially unacceptable. The point is: it is a local decision. It is not the decision of the people not to worry.”
You can Read the full response from the safety of the herd here.
Austin postpones the voting license reader
The Austin City Council was appointed to vote on whether the Licensing Reader Reader Program – which the Austin Police Department was preparing for a year – will continue earlier this month. But the concerns of the Council and Society forced the city manager to withdraw this element from the agenda.
The city director wrote: “Given the concerns that were expressed … I decided to withdraw this element from the agenda at this time to provide more opportunities to address the questions of the members of the Council and make our due care to reduce the concerns before returning this element to the city council for consideration.”
It is not clear when the case of the license plate reader will return exactly to the city council for voting. The council members are currently working on their summer vacation – and they will spend the next few months working through the budget.
Austin Police will lose the technology of the license plate reader at the end of the month, as the experimental program ends.
“We are in an unprecedented time to authoritarian rule at government levels and federal levels, and Austin should not use resources to finance a collective monitoring tool that private companies, immigration authorities and other external entities,” said Mike Siegel, a member of the Austin City Council earlier this month.
Austin Police Administration leaders said they believe that the administration can use technology responsibly and that it has helped PD to solve serious crimes.
“This police station is short 300 officers. At the present time, we do not have enough officers [perform] The function we prefer to do without using technology to supplement [our] “Work,” said Austin Shieldon Eskio.