BATAVIA, Ohio — A planned discussion of Flock Safety license plate cameras has been pulled from Batavia Village Council’s Oct. 26 agenda, the village said, marking the second time the topic has been postponed after a company representative turned out to be unavailable.
Council has been working to bring a Flock Safety representative to a meeting so residents can hear directly from the company and have their questions answered, according to a post from the village. The discussion was originally moved from a Sept. 28 meeting to Oct. 26 to give a representative time to attend, but the village said it was recently notified that no representative could make the new date, prompting the item’s removal from that agenda.
Council’s regular meeting will still take place Monday, Oct. 26, at the Armory, the village said, though without the Flock discussion on the agenda.
“We know many residents planned to attend for this topic, and that this is the second time it has moved,” the village said in its post. Council remains committed to bringing forward all available information on Flock so the community can stay informed, the post said, adding that scheduling a representative “has been difficult” and that those efforts are continuing. A new date will be announced on the village’s Facebook page and at bataviaoh.gov once it is confirmed.
Flock Safety manufactures license plate reader cameras, fixed devices that photograph passing vehicles and record characteristics such as color, make and body type. According to the company’s website, the cameras can generate alerts when a passing plate matches a customer-defined watch list or a law enforcement hot list, and the technology is used by law enforcement agencies, businesses and communities to investigate crimes and locate stolen or missing vehicles.
The information contained in this story was obtained from the Village of Batavia.