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A Nebraska city voted to ban Flock cameras. The county wants to keep surveilling drivers anyway.
The City of Ord voted to remove Valley County-owned automatic license plate reader cameras after backlash from locals. The county has agreed to take down cameras in the city, but others across the county will stay – for now.
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