The Flagstaff City Council is set to discuss its controversial artificial intelligence license plate camera program on Tuesday.

Several other northern Arizona communities paused or canceled their own programs under public pressure.

Flock Safety operates 32 AI cameras in Flagstaff through a $112,000 contract.

Company spokesperson Holly Bailin says the program is an important tool for public safety.

“That it can find a kidnapped child, that it can find a missing senior citizen who is a grandpa that is suffering from Alzheimer's and escaped,” Bailin says. “That's what this technology can do in a way that is customizable to a community and that can protect their privacy rights.”

“The next step of that, though, is those citizens with those questions [should] work closely with their polic

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