The Lane County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday it has followed Eugene and Springfield’s lead and canceled its contract with automatic license plate camera company Flock Safety.

Last week Eugene and Springfield said they had asked Flock to remove their combined 80 license plate cameras. Eugene officials said one of their devices had been activated after the city’s leaders told the company to keep them turned off.

According to public records previously requested by KLCC, Lane County paid for 22 Flock cameras in July. The Sheriff’s Office was much slower in its rollout, waiting on Eugene and Springfield to resolve privacy and federal abuse fears, and Flock never installed any of the county’s devices. In a news release, Lane County Sheriff Carl Wilkerson said he was still intere

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