Some Flock cameras in Eugene may have been online several weeks after the city ordered them to be turned off.

Eugene asked Flock Safety to shut down its AI-powered license plate readers in October, after community members raised concerns about privacy and potential misuse by federal law enforcement.

But as of Monday, Flock’s online data showed recent activity in the city, with Eugene Police’s cameras detecting nearly 8,500 unique vehicles in the past 30 days. That period lies entirely after the time when the city told Flock to turn the cameras off.

That rate of capture is far slower than it was just before city officials moved to pause the program, when the 30-day counts exceeded 500,000 unique vehicles.

However, Eyes off Eugene organizer Ky Fireside said the discovery reinforces

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