Editor, Gazette-Journal: Flock Safety’s surveillance infrastructure needs to be banned. In five years, over 1,000 license plate readers and panning cameras have been installed around Hampton Roads. Each subscribing department is networked together to see and share weeks of every driver’s movements without a warrant. What started out as pilot projects or response to proposals quickly built out a national dragnet. In quick succession, cities and counties justified surveillance through the use of their neighbors. Anything from Covid relief funds to assessments on our car insurance were used to pay for these as quickly as possible. There were no public hearings regarding privacy concerns, just obscure line items on agendas if evidenced at all. Despite Virginia enacting guardrails to restrict retention periods and out of state sharing, those become moot once users aggregate and launder people’s movements through other services and agencies. And while Flock Safety says users own the data, wh...