New Bedford is in the middle of a heated local fight over police surveillance technology. Residents are calling on the city and police department to cancel their contract with Flock Safety, a company that provides automatic license plate readers (ALPRs). These cameras quietly scan vehicles as they drive by, and many people only recently learned …
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