Local efforts to ban Flock cameras gain steam

As municipalities in Maine and across the country are increasingly relying on Artificial Intelligence for policing, some localities have made progress in removing surveillance cameras, foreshadowing forthcoming legislative fights over state-level restrictions.

As of Thursday, bipartisan Maine legislators who launched a petition to ban AI-powered Flock cameras — automated license plate readers that store information in searchable law enforcement databases — in the city of Auburn have gathered more than enough signatures to do …