Sue Steele

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. Steele treats the changes as a possible step in the right direction and an acknowledgment of real problems, while saying local safeguards are still needed. Mixed or conditional fits because she credits the package and says it is not enough on its own. Condemns is the closest competing label; it loses because she does not reject the changes.

The reference point is whether networked license-plate reader systems such as Flock should exist and be used. Steele backs keeping police access to the plate-reader tool while the Council writes legislation protecting Fourth Amendment rights, and calls the new policy a first step toward a local law. Continued use under legislated limits fits Mixed or conditional and Limit on the remedy ladder. The closest competing label is Defended or excused, which would fit an argument for the system without new legal limits.