After a brief question-and-answer with Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station Capt. Justin Diez during Tuesday’s City Council meeting, the council approved a $500,000, multiyear contract with Flock Safety, which operates a growing network of license plate-reading cameras.
The equipment and web services have been touted for months by city officials as a way to give an efficiency boost to a Sheriff’s Department dealing with historic lows in its staffing levels.
City Councilman Jason Gibbs asked a few questions about data security, storage and the tech before the deal was unanimously approved by the council…