Flock blocked: Saranac Lake cancels camera contract

Flock blocked: Saranac Lake cancels camera contract

SARANAC LAKE — The Saranac Lake village board chose to cancel its contract with the controversial license plate reader and surveillance camera company Flock, and never enter into an agreement with the company again, in a 4-1 vote Monday night.

Saranac Lake scraps plan for Flock surveillance cameras after public backlash

Dozens of residents packed the hallway outside the Saranac Lake Village Board room on Monday night. Every seat inside the chamber was filled, and when the meeting finally began, the mood was tense There were 13 items on the board agenda. But most of the crowd had come to talk about one issue: a controversial plan to install surveillance cameras around the village. “These cameras are not going to keep us safe,” resident Sandra Kalinowski of Saran…