Watertown’s contract with the Flock Safety company for eight license plate reading cameras was signed in September, but City officials are working on changing the section covering when data will be shared with other law enforcement. Meanwhile, a neighboring community terminated its contract with Flock, and another is determining its own policy for using the cameras.

At Tuesday’s City Council meeting City Manager George Proakis provided a further update about the Flock cameras. During the previous Council meeting, on Nov. 25 , he said that the data from the cameras, which take photos of plates but do not have a live feed, will be used only as part of an ongoing investigation. Watertown Police will have to link the request to a documented case, and the use will be audited monthly.

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