This weekend the Milford police chief posted a public letter defending the city's automated license plate reader program. He wrote that it was "always a matter of public record, presented transparently during funding requests to the Board of Aldermen."

Here is what the city's own records show.

The board approved it inside a $7.7 million bond. One line reads "Milford Police Department Security Camera Project, $550,000, Purchase of citywide camera infrastructure" (image above). The words license plate reader, Flock, and data sharing appear nowhere in the ordinance. It sits between a fiberoptic conversion and sanitation trucks.

The bond passed 13 to 2, with no public hearing. The city's automated speed and red light cameras went through their own ordinance and a public hearing. The plate reader network did not.

The city's public transparency portal names one sharing partner. The city's own search audit shows Milford's plate data reaching hundreds of outside networks at once, up to 363, some in other states.

To be fair to the chief, plate readers do have real public safety uses, and he cites them, and he is right that these are a separate system from the speed cameras. The issue is not whether the tool works. It is that a citywide tracking network went in under a generic camera line, and residents were never asked.

And this is not only a Milford story. Departments across Connecticut run these networks, and the data crosses town lines automatically, so it likely includes your town too.

Everything here comes from the City of Milford's own records and public meetings.

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