Eight cameras that have been recording license plates in Oak Park for the last three years are coming down.

On August 5 the Oak Park Village Board voted 5-2 to terminate the village’s contract with Flock Safety, an Atlanta based company that manufactures the automated cameras that read license plates. The cameras were turned off Aug. 6.

Oak Park was halfway through a two year contract extension that paid Flock $30,000 a year for the eight cameras, which were mostly located within a couple blocks of the village’s boundary with Chicago. The cameras were first installed in Oak Park in 2022 and also are used in other communities.

Opponents of the Flock cameras have said the license plate information photographed by the cameras can be shared with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and used

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