Butler Privacy Project
These are Liberty Township's own Board of Trustees meetings, open to all residents — Butler Privacy Project doesn't hold meetings of its own. Showing up and speaking puts your concerns on the public record. Double-check the date, time, and comment rules before you go.
Regular Board of Trustees meeting, per the township's posted schedule (1st & 3rd Tuesday, 6:00 p.m.). Check the Agenda Center before attending in case of a cancellation or holiday shift.
Regular Board of Trustees meeting, per the township's posted schedule (1st & 3rd Tuesday, 6:00 p.m.). Check the Agenda Center before attending in case of a cancellation or holiday shift.
Liberty Township's Agenda Center publishes current agendas and minutes for boards and commissions, including the Board of Trustees. Check it for the exact date and time before you go.
Removal is the goal. But trustees can't legally flip a switch — BCSO is the Flock customer, and the executed contract terms have never been made public. So the realistic, defensible ask for the next meeting is a motion any trustee can make without overreaching:
I'm a Liberty Township resident. I support real investigations, but I don't support keeping a searchable record of where everyone drives.
This board approved the cameras as "technology needed to provide police services" — the word Flock never appeared in the motion — and charged them to the opioid-settlement fund. The executed addendum still isn't public. Oxford's council looked at the same system last month and voted six-to-one to end it.
Please vote to end the Flock program and remove the township-funded cameras. Until then: release the addendum and the current settings, explain the opioid-fund charge, and ask the Sheriff's Office to pause collection and outside sharing while residents finally get to see the paper.
If several residents speak, it is stronger when people make different points instead of reading the exact same lines. Pick the angle that fits you best.
I am a Liberty Township resident. My concern tonight is how our money is being spent on a surveillance system I don't think we should have at all. Township police-service dollars are paying for a vendor-hosted database that tracks residents' movements, and residents have not been shown the contract, the renewal terms, the sharing settings, or any audit results. I'm asking the Trustees to end this program and remove the cameras. Short of that, release those records and vote in public before any renewal, but understand that disclosure alone does not answer why the township should keep paying for this.
I am a Liberty Township resident, and this is about ordinary privacy on my own street. These cameras do not just record suspects. They log when my family, my neighbors, and everyone driving through comes and goes, and they keep that history in a searchable database. Most of us are not suspected of anything. I am asking the Trustees to vote to remove this system. Pausing it and turning off outside sharing in the meantime helps, but it does not answer the basic question of why we should keep a permanent record of our daily movements sitting with a private company at all.
I am a Liberty Township resident. Since July, public records have answered questions this board never discussed in public: the signed order runs 36 months and renews itself unless someone gives 30 days' notice; the written policy requires no reasonable suspicion to search and provides one internal audit a year that nobody outside the Sheriff's Office ever sees; and the request for the actual usage logs was denied. The funding motion this board passed never used the word Flock, and it charged the cost to the opioid-settlement fund. I am asking the board to publish the executed addendum, explain the funding choice, and put termination to a vote the way Oxford just did.
I am a Liberty Township resident, and my concern is where this data can travel. The same Sheriff's Office that runs these cameras is one of only four in Ohio holding both a Flock contract and a 287(g) immigration agreement with ICE, and its deputies can now act on immigration during routine traffic stops. Ninety minutes away, Dayton just covered its cameras after finding thousands of immigration-related searches of its data, even with policies supposedly in place. That is exactly why I don't think tighter sharing rules are enough here. Policies can be violated or changed later, but a camera that has been removed can't leak anyone's data. I am asking the Trustees to remove this system, not just tighten who can search it.
If you work, have kids at home, or otherwise cannot attend in person, you can still be counted. Email your comment to the Trustees so it goes into the record.
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