Troy Jackson says he would vote to ban Flock cameras
Former Maine Senate president and 2026 Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Maine
“Yeah, I would. I mean, I think right now, everything I know personally and as far as for people across Maine, they do not like it. People’s privacy is something that I think they want protected. We don’t know what else they’re using the data for. I don’t like that and I would vote against it.”
Source and context
Interview
About this source
Maine Newsroom audio clip and transcript of a question put to Troy Jackson in York, Maine, about a Flock camera ban.
Before the quotation
Maine Newsroom asked Jackson in York, where voters will decide whether to keep or remove the town's four Flock cameras, whether he would vote for a Flock ban either in the Senate or in his hometown of Allagash.
After the quotation
Maine Newsroom published the exchange as an audio clip with a transcript on Sept. 14, 2026, under the headline that Jackson would vote to ban Flock and other AI-powered license-plate cameras.
How this statement is classified
Case context: Should Flock-style license-plate surveillance networks exist?
The label describes this statement’s response within the context above.
Why this label?
The reference point is whether networked license-plate readers such as Flock should exist and be used. Asked whether he would vote for a Flock ban, Jackson said yes and that he would vote against the cameras, citing privacy and unknown uses of the data. We used Condemned because he supports banning the cameras.
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