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“Too tantalizing to public officials”? Please explain. The city is run by nine elected members of the council. For what possible purpose would they wish to have

• _underfl0w_ 8y ago
  That's a straw man. This is clearly not about recording audio of vehicle traffic, but about recording conversations between the same citizens they're visually monitoring. Plus, they were very quick to pull the trigger and install these without asking. Clearly asking people who would do such a thing to "exercise self control" in regard to enabling yet another degree of surveillance seems like an exercise in futility.
• orhmeh09 8y ago
  When they have purchased machinery with microphones and set out policy and procedure like the following: ‘The policy adds that "audio from the City's intelligent streetlight sensors may be accessed exclusively for law enforcement purposes with the Police Department as the custodian and departmental owner of these records."’ That means they are planning to use audio recordings.