The Santa Barbara City Council on Tuesday will discuss the termination of its contract with Flock Safety amid national backlash and concerns over privacy vulnerabilities. Though it won’t be the end of automatic license plate readers in Santa Barbara. While the city’s contract with Flock Safety has ended, the city will propose a replacement to the cameras from a different company: Verkada. Verkada, a California based security company, is the expected new provider of the automatic license plate readers. The City Council is set to vote on Tuesday at its 2 p.m. meeting. City Councilmember Meagan Harmon told the News-Press that she has a “deep discomfort” with surveillance cameras such as Flock Safety ones. “However, cameras in general have been a hugely important tool in our ability to open and close criminal cases and quite literally solve crimes,” Harmon said. “I’m very glad that the community conversation is happening, there are real costs and consequences with video surveillance but there are also huge benefits.” She said that the new proposal involving Verkada is an improvement from the Flock Safety cameras. “Opposed to the Flock contract, which was externally arranged, all of our footage now will be held within our own system. To me that is quite a meaningful difference,” Harmon said. What is Verkada? With headquarters in San Mateo, California, and regional hubs in nine other U.S. cities, Verkada offers a variety of security services. The company also has international offices in eight countries including Australia, Taiwan, and Poland. Verkada’s camera technology uses artificial intelligence to aid its security systems. AI is used to “locate footage of suspects or vehicles in seconds with powerful AI analytics,” wrote the company in their product description for “Smart solutions for city and county security”. The company recently announced Hard Rock Stadium, home of