Brookline to vote on accessing data from privately installed AI-powered license plate readers

Brookline to vote on accessing data from privately installed AI-powered license plate readers

The Brookline Select Board is tentatively planning on a vote later this month to decide if the town will sign agreement to access the data from Flock Safety.

Surveillance cameras in Brookline, Mass., raise serious questions about civil liberties

Photo (cc) 2014 by Jay Phagan. The surveillance state has come to Brookline, Massachusetts. Sam Mintz reports for Brookline.News that Chestnut Hill Realty will set up license-plate readers on Independence Drive near Hancock Village, located in South Brookline, on the Boston border. The readers are made by Flock Safety, which is signing an agreement with the Brookline Police Department to use the data. The data will also be made available to Bost…