Policing

The board four months ago paused investigations because of legal advice from the city’s top lawyer. After three attorneys argued the city’s lawyer was wrong, the Common Council directed the board to resume its investigatory work.

At the board’s last meeting, residents called on board members to accept the common council’s directive to resume police misconduct investigations, or resign.

The decision followed a hearing at which three lawyers and advocates of the CRB pushed back against city lawyers.

The Common Council’s Public Safety committee will host Alan Rosenthal, considered an architect of the CRB, and NYCLU.

Rusin said the department is working with Axon to meet requirements laid out four years ago by surveillance oversight experts and authorized by the mayor.

All readers have been removed, police and the company said. One lawmaker who led efforts to remove them called on other entities to also cut ties to Flock.

Hunter, the speaker pro tempore of the New York State Assembly, in April introduced a bill to restrict license plate readers, calling them a “weaponization of technology.”

A city law required Flock to take down its license plate readers by May 26. Syracuse police continued using the readers after Flock left them up.

The move came days after Central Current asked city officials why Flock readers were kept up beyond a legislatively imposed deadline for the readers to be taken down.