Council weighs new rules for Flock camera data amid citywide surveillance concerns HUNTINGTON, W.Va (WCHS) — Implementing guardrails on the use of Flock cameras was on the agenda on Monday night at Huntington city council. This comes at a time where people citywide have voiced concerns over the systems. noting instances where the data could be easily accessed by anyone. "It is nothing more than mass surveillance. The data stored they can say seven days. I don’t believe a word of that,” Huntington resident, Trish Lilly said. Council members heard the first reading of an ordinance that would place rules and guidelines on how the data could be gathered from the flock cameras. Many people who live in Huntington continue to voice their opposition, making it clear they do not want flock in their community. "We're not doing facial recognition. This technology with flock cannot do facial recognition it does not track you as a person it takes a picture of the back of your car it's not used for traffic stops for rolling through red lights rolling through a stop sign. It’s not for traffic enforcement; that's against state law. It's not watching where you go to church can't see who your doctor is whether you go into the ER. It's not it's pointed a public street at an intersection,” Mayor Patrick Farrell said during Monday’s meeting. Councilmember Rumbaugh highlighted the importance of adding criminalization into the ordinance on the table. "What harm would there be to have the municipal criminalization back in place? Specifically, I would love to re-include and amend to have the language that you had before in your policy back in so that we have a little bit of teeth, a light adjustment a light penalty,” Tia Rumbaugh said during Monday’s meeting. The ordinance will