“I don’t like the government following my every movement and treating me like a criminal suspect, when they have no reason to believe I’ve done anything wrong,” said Lee, a 42-year-old Norfolk husband and father who recently retired from the Navy.
“My work requires me to drive around Norfolk very often, and it’s incredibly disturbing to know the city can track my every move during that time,” said Crystal, a 44-year-old home health care worker who lives in Portsmouth.
In 2023, Norfolk Police partnered with a company called Flock Safety, Inc. to install 172 automatic license plate reading cameras across town. The cameras were strategically placed to create what Norfolk Police Chief Mark Talbot referred to as a “nice curtain of technology,” which would make it “difficult to drive anywhere of any distance without running into a camera somewhere.”
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