BAY CITY, MI – The city’s public safety department has been criticized in recent days for posts it has made on its Facebook page encouraging residents to call their commissioners and urge them to support a contract with a private company for the use of license plate reading cameras.

Officials with the Bay City Department of Public Safety Facebook page made posts on Sept. 4, Sept. 8 and Sept. 9 promoting Flock Safety, a private company that contracts with police agencies across the country for use of its license plate-reading cameras.

Each post has been met with criticism, with many comments chastising the public safety department for considering the use of such technology as well as using the department’s city-branded social media account to promote the technology.

The social media di

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