Rob Fuentes is a Fresno, California, civil rights attorney and president of the State Center Community College District Board of Trustees. He is a former federal prosecutor and teaches at San Joaquin College of Law.
Case
Networked automated license-plate cameras can assemble searchable records of vehicle movements. Candidates and officials disagree over whether to ban the systems, keep them with limits, or defend them as investigative tools. This tracker separates outright bans from narrower restrictions.
Role at the time: Candidate for Fresno City Council, District 1
Statement summary
Fresno council candidate Rob Fuentes said the city should not renew its contract with Flock, saying he is deeply concerned by a system that creates a surveillance record of every innocent person who drives through Fresno's neighborhoods.
“The city should not renew its contract with Flock Our law enforcement certainly need effective tools to combat thefts, robberies, and other serious crimes. But as a civil rights attorney, I am deeply concerned with a system that creates a surveillance record of every single innocent person who drives through our neighborhoods. Building safe neighborhoods and respecting our constitutional rights is not a false choice: We can and must do both.”
The reference point is whether networked license-plate reader systems such as Flock should exist and be used. Fuentes said Fresno should not renew its Flock contract and objected to a system that records every innocent driver in the city's neighborhoods. He supports other crime-fighting tools, but his objection is to the tracking network itself, and ending the contract would remove the city's cameras.
Statement dates: September 19, 2026
Statement dates: September 19, 2026
Statement dates: September 19, 2026
Statement dates: September 19, 2026
