Missouri governor orders guardrails on Flock cameras and ALPRs

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Brian Munoz / St. Louis Public Radio A Flock camera, commonly known as automated license plate readers, stands at a park on Sept. 10 in University City. St. Louis-area residents have denounced the surveillance technology. Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe has signed an executive order to establish safeguards around automated license plate readers, like Flock cameras.

Kehoe said in a statement that the order is intended to protect residents’ constitutional rights and to prevent people from misusing the license plate readers, including data obtained by Flock Safety.

“The unchecked collection and indefinite storage of location data belonging to law-abiding citizens raises substantial, valid constitutional and privacy concerns,” Kehoe wrote. “The government should not be building a permanent record of where law-abiding Missourians go, who they visit, or how they live their daily lives.”