ALPR cameras

Thanked the council for leading on the ALPR issue and urged a yes vote to make Appleton the first Wisconsin city to ban ALPRs.

Spoke in support of both the ALPR ban and increased noise penalties, citing privacy and loud-vehicle concerns.

Business owner who called ALPR databases mass surveillance and urged the council to ban the technology.

Little Chute resident urging a ban, citing documented abuse of ALPR footage and privacy rights.

Detailed misuse of Appleton's Flock data, missing audit logs, and federal misuse; argued the resolution is the right step.

Read the resolution, found the carve-outs reasonable, and announced she would support a yes vote.

Argued current ALPR technology cannot satisfy necessary guardrails and asked the council to approve the resolution.

Urged support for the ban, opposing a move toward mass surveillance; noted she is running for state assembly in District 56.

Raised First Amendment free-association concerns about pervasive tracking; on noise, cautioned against making Appleton feel less like a city.

Called the vote a historic opportunity and raised concerns about vendor ICE contracts; also supported the noise ban.

Described fears of LGBTQ+ residents about being tracked and her own experience of feeling followed by police after an out-of-state trip.

As an LGBTQ+ community member, spoke about the intimidation of constant surveillance and urged Appleton to set a precedent.

Raised newly disclosed cybersecurity vulnerabilities and argued a private vendor's system cannot be adequately audited.

A Lawrence student who urged the ban, citing hyper-policing and technology outpacing protections for underrepresented communities.