The Eugene City Council voted Wednesday to ask their city manager to immediately turn off their automatic license plate readers, also known as Flock cameras.

Eugene has 57 AI license plate reader cameras , owned by Georgia-based company Flock Safety.

Several city council members, including Eliza Kashinsky, said they trusted local police to use the technology responsibly, but were concerned the data could be used against LGBTQ, or immigrant community members. She pointed to aggressive tactics the Trump Administration had used against immigrants, including an Oregon firefighter who was arrested while fighting a fire in Washington.

“I think if we were having this conversation about the risks and benefits this time last year, it would have been a different conversation,” Kashinsky sai

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