Troy council member Noreen McKee says Flock's seven-day default is still a long time
Noreen McKeeTroy City Council member for District 4, interviewed by WAMC
Troy City Council member Noreen McKee, who drafted the council's proposed Flock rules, said Flock's new seven-day default still gives people analyzing the data, with AI, enough time to find patterns and predict movements.
Responding to
Flock's August 2026 safeguards meaningfully address privacy and misuse concerns about its license-plate reader network.
“Seven days is still a long time It gives people who evaluate and analyze the data enough time to create, you know, patterns are created, and through the use of AI, they can predict future movements.”
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Where this statement fits
Did Flock Safety's August 2026 privacy safeguards address concerns about its camera network?
Flock Safety announced new controls for its license-plate reader network on August 13, 2026. The ACLU said a shorter default retention period might help but argued that the broader package left major privacy risks unresolved. The dispute concerns the adequacy of Flock's safeguards, not whether the company announced them.
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Interview
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WAMC reports responses in Troy, New York, to Flock's August 13, 2026 changes, including an interview with City Council member Noreen McKee, who drafted the council's proposed rules.
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WAMC reported that Flock's new seven-day default does not change the Troy Police Department's 30-day retention period, because existing customers keep their current periods. McKee drafted the City Council's proposed Flock restrictions, which would limit police retention of the data to 48 hours unless police flag it as evidence of a crime.
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McKee did not call on Troy police to adopt the seven-day period on their own, saying that decision was up to them.
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Why this label?
The case asks whether Flock's August 2026 safeguard package (a seven-day default retention period, Evidence Mode, offense-based sharing limits, mandatory Audit Assistance, proactive lockouts and case codes) addresses privacy and misuse concerns about its plate-reader network. McKee says the central retention change still leaves data long enough for patterns to be found and movements predicted. Condemns fits because she judges that safeguard insufficient. Mixed or conditional is the closest competing label; it loses because she does not credit the change as answering the concern.
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The Dispute Index. "Troy council member Noreen McKee says Flock's seven-day default is still a long time". First published: 2026-11-10. Last updated: 2026-11-10. https://disputeindex.com/events/8535-troy-city-council-member-noreen-mckee-who-drafted