government surveillance

Back in March, the city council agreed to test three Flock cameras. But after hearing concerns from residents and Gov. Spencer Cox, they called it off.

Salt Lake City Council wants to tie case numbers to license plate camera data access. To get a sense of what that looks like, KUER put in a records request for camera access records over the last five years.

A draft ordinance in front of the Salt Lake City Council would regulate how automatic license plate readers are used by government entities.

The 41 cameras in Ogden photograph and log license plates, giving law enforcement a leg up on locating vehicles and solving crimes. Critics, however, have privacy and surveillance concerns.

Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who exposed Edward Snowden’s top-secret documents on US government surveillance, made an appearance in Salt Lake City…