When Josh Thomas, Flock Safety’s vice president of local government affairs and external communications, came to Providence recently to participate in a joint press conference with Mayor Jorge Elorza and the Providence Police Department announcing the city would be moving ahead with the activation of 25 Flock cameras despite a city council resolution requesting more time to review the plan, he provided the Providence Journal with the following list of RI municipalities currently using Flock cameras: Bristol, Cranston, Glocester, Lincoln, Smithfield, Tiverton and Woonsocket.
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Portsmouth reconsiders Flock cameras: How Portsmouth councilors voted after comments against Mount Hope Bridge license plate readers While Lynch did tell The Daily News that he would still be interested in installing the cameras even if their use were limited to strictly suicide prevention purposes – given his department’s initial characterization of the program as being specifically for suicide prevention, it is noteworthy that their intended use is not in fact strictly limited to that purpose – his department’s ALPR policy as it is presently written includes a litany of crime prevention and law enforcement applications for the cameras, which is what they are typically marketed for and what they are used for in Cranston, Glocester, Lincoln, Smithfield, Tiverton, Woonsocket, Providence (within the next 60 days), and over 1,500 other communities around the United States. The system would then send an immediate alert if that vehicle passed one of the cameras, and the technological enhancement to the existing BOLO process would cut down police response time to potential suicide attempts on the Mount Hope Bridge. Setting aside the burning question of what exactly that “already robust video analytics system” is, the pilot program in question was pitched by the Bristol and then the Portsmouth Police Departments to their respective town councils as being primarily for suicide prevention, the theory being when the police have been issued a "Be on the lookout” alert for any vehicle associated with mental health or suicide risk, the license plate could be plugged into the Flock Safety database of photos continuously captured by the cameras. RITBA is doing its due diligence to determine if this solution would enhance our already robust video analytics system.”įlock cameras: Measure to prevent suicides from Mount Hope Bridge draws concerns from ACLU.
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However, she did deliver the following statement via email, which thus far represents the full extent of RITBA’s public comment on the matter: “I can confirm that Bristol Police did reach out.
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