Colorado lawmakers abandon effort to limit police use of Flock cameras, surveillance data

The Colorado Sun: A bill that would have tightened rules on how government agencies use data from automated license plate readers won’t advance this year, after drawing significant pushback from law enforcement agencies, lead sponsors of Senate Bill 70 said Wednesday.

The bipartisan bill, introduced by Boulder Democrat Sen. Judy Amabile and El Paso County Republican Sen. Lynda Zamora Wilson, aimed to enforce “common-sense guardrails” on how the technology is used and data is stored, while helping protect privacy rights of Coloradans, Amabile said.

“I pursued this legislation because constituents across our state are demanding action. They do not want to live in a society where their movements are constantly monitored and tracked,” Amabile said in a statement Wednesday. “These camera technologies are spreading very quickly, and quietly reshaping our communities in real time.”

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