Surveillance-tech report: Middletown¶

Mentions current to 27 September 2026

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At a glance: Middletown¶

227 mentions of surveillance technology in 35 Middletown meetings, 2020–2026

227mentionsacross 35 meetings · read the timeline 2020–2026first to latest mention2020-07-20 → 2026-07-20 6technologies discussedALPR / Flock, Body cameras, Drones, Facial recognition, Gunshot detection, Real-time crime centres 7,783licence-plate searchesby Middletown police, in six towns' released Flock logs · open the dashboard 19%of known meetings transcribed395 of 2,076 meetings

Not the full history: transcripts begin 2020-04-30, but Middletown's published video archive goes back to 2013-12-02. Meetings before 2020 are not yet transcribed, so this report cannot say what was discussed then. Older meetings are still being added.

Meetings in progress: we are in the process of adding Middletown's public meetings. Middletown's meetings are not on YouTube, so each recording has to be downloaded and transcribed from its audio, which takes a little longer than towns whose meetings are captioned on YouTube. More meetings will appear here as they are transcribed.

This report collects every mention of surveillance technology found in Middletown's recorded public meetings -- automatically transcribed, then keyword-scanned. Each mention below links straight to the moment in the source video, so anything here can be checked against the recording itself.

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Mentions are found by keyword and are not individually verified. A mention means the words were spoken at a public meeting -- not that the town uses, bought, or approved the technology. Read the quote and watch the clip before drawing a conclusion.

Contents¶

Licence-plate searches by Middletown police
Mentions by topic: first seen / most recent
Timeline
Findings by topic
Agenda/minutes mentions (unreviewed -- live keyword scan, no human review queue yet)
How this report was built
Coverage status
Registered meeting bodies
Agenda/minutes coverage
Research log
Gaps and caveats
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Licence-plate searches by Middletown police¶

Six Connecticut towns have released the Flock audit log of every search run against their cameras. Below is what that record holds for Middletown's own police department -- not a finding, just the log.

Middletown CT PD

7,783 searches between 2023-05 and 2025-09 (29 months with at least one search)
1,081 camera networks swept by the average single search
100% of them reached beyond Middletown's own cameras
The commonest stated reason is free text or a numeric code, rather than one of the preset categories Flock introduced in December 2025

Open Middletown CT PD's search dashboard -- every one of those searches, filterable by month, stated reason, search type and how far it reached, with a How to read this tab covering what each field means and what the record cannot tell you.

A floor, not a total. The record only sees queries that reached those six towns' cameras. A single Flock query typically sweeps thousands of networks at once, so most of a Connecticut department's searching does land in it -- but the real count is higher. Nothing in it names an officer, shows a plate, or records what any search returned.

Mentions by topic: first seen / most recent¶

Back to the meetings. Everything above this point was about licence-plate searches -- what the town's police looked up. Everything below is about what was said: each mention is a moment in a recorded public meeting where a surveillance technology came up, with a link to that moment in the video.

Topic	Mentions	Meetings	First seen	Most recent
ALPR / Flock	62	4	2023-02-27	2026-07-20
Body cameras	8	5	2020-07-20	2024-03-18
Drones	154	29	2021-07-19	2026-07-20
Facial recognition	1	1	2026-07-20	2026-07-20
Gunshot detection	1	1	2026-07-20	2026-07-20
Real-time crime centres	1	1	2026-07-20	2026-07-20

Timeline¶

35 meetings surfaced a finding (35 dated, spanning 2020-07-20 to 2026-07-20; 0 of unknown date, listed last). Newest first.

No meetings with a mention in the 30 days before 2026-09-27. The most recent was 2026-07-20.

Earlier meetings (35)

2026-07-20 -- Public Safety Commission

Public Safety Commission Fire July 2026 (topics: alpr, drone)

alpr_flock Watch ▸ jump to 1:00 ▸ > ...Is there anyone who would like to speak tonight? On the fire? Through the through the chair, I just like to acknowledge that this public hearing is for the fire department agenda. So for anybody here to speak about the flock drones, you want to wait until the police portion of the agenda. I recognize some folks, but thank you for coming. Is there anyone else here who would like to speak on matters...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 4:38 ▸ > ...We finished that up for the last fiscal year. We've been doing marine and dive training since it is the season. My drone training continues to go on every month. We did training on the new extractor washer and dryer. We obtained that through the CDBG money....

2026-07-20 -- Public Safety Commission

Public Safety Commission Police July 2026 (topics: alpr, drone, facial_recognition, gunshot_detection, rtcc)

alpr_flock Watch ▸ jump to 0:45 ▸ > ...chief um at the table there so we can see you on webex state your name address you have five minutes to speak to any agenda item yep councilman i have a letter that was sent via linda reed um is this the time that it's it's about public comment in regards to the flock cameras should i read that into the record that that's what the request of the sender is we normally do this at the end of public c...
alpr_flock Watch ▸ jump to 1:19 ▸ > ...all right so who would like to speak first hello um so my uh my legal name is james calabresi um and i live at [address redacted] middletown um 06457 and um yeah i'd like to speak about um flock so um flock as a nationwide service um uh reads 20 billion uh license plates in america every month 20 billion is a really big number it's a lot bigger than the number of americans there are but when it co...
alpr_flock Watch ▸ jump to 2:43 ▸ > ...so the specific instance i'll just quickly try to summarize is a man in uh minnesota had his car pinged uh there was a car in california the fbi realized was um was a stolen car and so they put out sort of a you know like a search for it the automatic license plate reader in minnesota uh determined that this man's car uh was the exact match of this stolen car in california unfortunately for him uh...
alpr_flock Watch ▸ jump to 3:15 ▸ > ...for him his car was just not the right car it was just missing two uh two numbers which would have made it identical to the car that had been stolen so fortunately the man was fine you know everything worked out in that specific situation and that local police department reached out to flock and asked is this your regular procedure um can we expect this in the future how does this work and floc's ...
alpr_flock Watch ▸ jump to 4:16 ▸ > ...this car it's its own car um and so unfortunately um uh uh uh counselors um this is just a a situation where we're living in a time where you know the the tech uh industries you know are are heavily unregulated these these issues come up over and over again for flock they come up over and over again for you know meta or they come over and over again for google errors that are uh attributed to ai o...
alpr_flock Watch ▸ jump to 4:27 ▸ > ...unregulated these these issues come up over and over again for flock they come up over and over again for you know meta or they come over and over again for google errors that are uh attributed to ai or most recent technologies and i just like to encourage you to um to uh not move ahead with the flock uh drone because you know no matter what form the flock technology takes it is feeding into the f...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 4:27 ▸ > ...unregulated these these issues come up over and over again for flock they come up over and over again for you know meta or they come over and over again for google errors that are uh attributed to ai or most recent technologies and i just like to encourage you to um to uh not move ahead with the flock uh drone because you know no matter what form the flock technology takes it is feeding into the f...
alpr_flock Watch ▸ jump to 4:35 ▸ > ...for you know meta or they come over and over again for google errors that are uh attributed to ai or most recent technologies and i just like to encourage you to um to uh not move ahead with the flock uh drone because you know no matter what form the flock technology takes it is feeding into the flock system and we know the flock system has errors and is sometimes inaccurate thank you all right th...
alpr_flock Watch ▸ jump to 4:40 ▸ > ...recent technologies and i just like to encourage you to um to uh not move ahead with the flock uh drone because you know no matter what form the flock technology takes it is feeding into the flock system and we know the flock system has errors and is sometimes inaccurate thank you all right thank you all right is there anyone else who would like to come up and speak uh yes hey come on up sir hello...
alpr_flock Watch ▸ jump to 5:27 ▸ > ...which means i work with robots on a daily basis um and it's generally my job to make sure that they work well and that they are um essentially doing what they're told right following the code that they're programmed and my main issue with the flock drone as well as flock itself is there's no guarantee that this flock drone will follow the programming or follow the orders of the cops we have here r...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 5:27 ▸ > ...which means i work with robots on a daily basis um and it's generally my job to make sure that they work well and that they are um essentially doing what they're told right following the code that they're programmed and my main issue with the flock drone as well as flock itself is there's no guarantee that this flock drone will follow the programming or follow the orders of the cops we have here r...
alpr_flock Watch ▸ jump to 5:32 ▸ > ...well and that they are um essentially doing what they're told right following the code that they're programmed and my main issue with the flock drone as well as flock itself is there's no guarantee that this flock drone will follow the programming or follow the orders of the cops we have here right we don't have any visibility on what code it's running on the machine um and then just to give conte...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 5:32 ▸ > ...well and that they are um essentially doing what they're told right following the code that they're programmed and my main issue with the flock drone as well as flock itself is there's no guarantee that this flock drone will follow the programming or follow the orders of the cops we have here right we don't have any visibility on what code it's running on the machine um and then just to give conte...
alpr_flock Watch ▸ jump to 5:48 ▸ > ...right we don't have any visibility on what code it's running on the machine um and then just to give context i wanted to read out i'm sure this will be reviewed later um but i wanted to just give context to read out that from the flock drone site itself um this response 9-1-1 9-1-1 calls license plate reader hits gun gunshot detection it shares live video life thermal video night vision video um t...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 5:48 ▸ > ...right we don't have any visibility on what code it's running on the machine um and then just to give context i wanted to read out i'm sure this will be reviewed later um but i wanted to just give context to read out that from the flock drone site itself um this response 9-1-1 9-1-1 calls license plate reader hits gun gunshot detection it shares live video life thermal video night vision video um t...
alpr_flock Watch ▸ jump to 5:54 ▸ > ...um and then just to give context i wanted to read out i'm sure this will be reviewed later um but i wanted to just give context to read out that from the flock drone site itself um this response 9-1-1 9-1-1 calls license plate reader hits gun gunshot detection it shares live video life thermal video night vision video um to uh they list stakeholders here which could be anyone um essentially my big...
gunshot_detection Watch ▸ jump to 5:54 ▸ > ...um and then just to give context i wanted to read out i'm sure this will be reviewed later um but i wanted to just give context to read out that from the flock drone site itself um this response 9-1-1 9-1-1 calls license plate reader hits gun gunshot detection it shares live video life thermal video night vision video um to uh they list stakeholders here which could be anyone um essentially my big...
alpr_flock Watch ▸ jump to 6:17 ▸ > ...it shares live video life thermal video night vision video um to uh they list stakeholders here which could be anyone um essentially my big worry is without that oversight we're handing plausible deniability to flock or even our police officers here if they aren't exactly following the law um to fly a drone over our city and to spot anyone they want and i don't think that's something anyone here w...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 6:23 ▸ > ...which could be anyone um essentially my big worry is without that oversight we're handing plausible deniability to flock or even our police officers here if they aren't exactly following the law um to fly a drone over our city and to spot anyone they want and i don't think that's something anyone here wants uh thank you for the time okay thank you is there anyone else please come on up um my name ...
alpr_flock Watch ▸ jump to 8:45 ▸ > ...officers there's been um a lot of instances of um stalking and harassment used with these cameras and um we've also been involved in hacking penetrations by predators including creators of child sex material these cameras are put on walking trails and parks um and paths they flock safety is currently facing massive scrutiny over the release of images facing a girls gymnastic studio any company tha...
alpr_flock Watch ▸ jump to 13:21 ▸ > ...oh okay well look it looked like you had your hand raised apologies okay awesome all right and just note i think in the chat there was uh someone from the public his name was alex who was in support of the drone program so just noting that for the record alex jones i am in support of flock drone program as a town resident and it looks like now we have alicia reed who has raised her hand or their h...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 13:21 ▸ > ...oh okay well look it looked like you had your hand raised apologies okay awesome all right and just note i think in the chat there was uh someone from the public his name was alex who was in support of the drone program so just noting that for the record alex jones i am in support of flock drone program as a town resident and it looks like now we have alicia reed who has raised her hand or their h...
alpr_flock Watch ▸ jump to 14:56 ▸ > ...reside at [address redacted] here in middletown thank you um we as concerned citizens of middletown want to express our strong concerns for the for the privacy of the residents of middletown uh as we understand it the use of these uh automated license plate reading cameras are presented uh to the public as a tool of local law enforcement to increase public safety however they are also gathering hu...
facial_recognition Watch ▸ jump to 15:18 ▸ > ...the public as a tool of local law enforcement to increase public safety however they are also gathering huge amounts of data for tech firms to sell access to that data is then being fed into real-time black box ai tools such as facial recognition and gait analysis to develop profiles on and surveil the everyday actions of americans further access to that data and our profiles is able to be purchas...
alpr_flock Watch ▸ jump to 16:05 ▸ > ...that we skimmed through and clicked accept to we have no means to opt out of this service other than appealing to our local representatives to protect our privacy we have seen many cities and towns including some here in connecticut have now reversed course on alpr our technologies canceling contracts and removing installed devices due to the privacy concerns of their citizens we believe that this...
alpr_flock Watch ▸ jump to 17:20 ▸ > ...which is currently violating our constitutional rights to privacy we are asking anyone with the ability to please intervene and do not allow the trial of these devices to be extended in middletown and we would also ask that the removal of any existing flock or similar alpr products currently in use of middletown be duly considered thank you thank you mr reed is there anyone else from the public wh...
alpr_flock Watch ▸ jump to 50:01 ▸ > ...Um, extremely excited about that. And again, um, all the credos go to those that wear the shield and wear the patch of the city of Middletown and its police department. So I'm extremely proud of that as well. Um, if there's no questions, I'll move on to flock, uh, drone agreement. Um, and that will be, I believe Briggs on this call. If, uh, you want to bring Briggs up, he'll be presenting this top...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 50:01 ▸ > ...Um, extremely excited about that. And again, um, all the credos go to those that wear the shield and wear the patch of the city of Middletown and its police department. So I'm extremely proud of that as well. Um, if there's no questions, I'll move on to flock, uh, drone agreement. Um, and that will be, I believe Briggs on this call. If, uh, you want to bring Briggs up, he'll be presenting this top...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 52:06 ▸ > ...The letter. And that's it. A drone. So they have the, not the resolution, but they have the full agreement. Is that what Briggs about to present?...
alpr_flock Watch ▸ jump to 53:55 ▸ > ...four documents. One ought to be a letter from Chief Costa of the community. One ought to be a sort of a one pager from Flock Safety's CEO about their technology. One ought to be the resolution that council passed back in January of 2026. And then one ought to be the proposed master services agreement....
alpr_flock Watch ▸ jump to 54:54 ▸ > ...the $50,000 per year contract. Quote, and that Mayor Eugene Nassar is authorized to send, sign any and all documents for this Flock safety drone as first responder DFR program, subject to review and approval as to content informed by the office of the general council. Um, and then if you look attached to that resolution, you will see, uh, what was then sort of their...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 54:54 ▸ > ...the $50,000 per year contract. Quote, and that Mayor Eugene Nassar is authorized to send, sign any and all documents for this Flock safety drone as first responder DFR program, subject to review and approval as to content informed by the office of the general council. Um, and then if you look attached to that resolution, you will see, uh, what was then sort of their...
alpr_flock Watch ▸ jump to 55:20 ▸ > ...and there's some concerns about whether the representations that we're seeing in chief cost is letter to the community. And then the, the statement from Flock safety's CEO are fairly encompassed within this agreement. And I said, well, let me look at it. And, uh, and I think the council member and the public made some good points....
alpr_flock Watch ▸ jump to 55:32 ▸ > ...And I said, well, let me look at it. And, uh, and I think the council member and the public made some good points. And so we said, let's talk to Flock safety about seeing if we can't make the agreement more specific. So we endeavored to do just that....
alpr_flock Watch ▸ jump to 55:43 ▸ > ...more specific. So we endeavored to do just that. And we spent, um, you know, months working with Flock safety on that. And so what you have now in front of you, this master services agreement, you'll notice is a much more substantial document than the, uh, boilerplate contract....
alpr_flock Watch ▸ jump to 56:23 ▸ > ...And I do want to say, cause I was online and I was able to hear some of the public comments. And those are exactly the comments that we were trying to. Be sensitive to in talking with Flock safety about providing us a more comprehensive agreement and one that better spells out what the technology is going to be used for and what its limitations are. So what I want to highlight at the very beginnin...
alpr_flock Watch ▸ jump to 56:44 ▸ > ...and one that better spells out what the technology is going to be used for and what its limitations are. So what I want to highlight at the very beginning is that the technology is not going to be used as a license plate reader. So if you go to, and I'll give you a minute or two to flip to it, but section 4.1.1, customer data. I'll give you just a minute....
alpr_flock Watch ▸ jump to 57:09 ▸ > ...So if you go to, and I'll give you a minute or two to flip to it, but section 4.1.1, customer data. I'll give you just a minute. So one of the most important protections for the city is customer data as between Flock and customer, all right title and interest in and to customer data belong to and are retained by customer. Customer hereby grants to Flock a limited, non-exclusive, royalty-free, irre...
alpr_flock Watch ▸ jump to 57:23 ▸ > ...So one of the most important protections for the city is customer data as between Flock and customer, all right title and interest in and to customer data belong to and are retained by customer. Customer hereby grants to Flock a limited, non-exclusive, royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual world license to a, using disclosed customer data solely to Flock sub-processors to provide the Flock services...
alpr_flock Watch ▸ jump to 57:28 ▸ > ...all right title and interest in and to customer data belong to and are retained by customer. Customer hereby grants to Flock a limited, non-exclusive, royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual world license to a, using disclosed customer data solely to Flock sub-processors to provide the Flock services. What that means is we said, listen, you are going to have obviously access to our customer data, whi...
alpr_flock Watch ▸ jump to 57:35 ▸ > ...Customer hereby grants to Flock a limited, non-exclusive, royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual world license to a, using disclosed customer data solely to Flock sub-processors to provide the Flock services. What that means is we said, listen, you are going to have obviously access to our customer data, which is the stuff that's sort of sensitive. You go back to the first page of the agreement, cus...
alpr_flock Watch ▸ jump to 57:51 ▸ > ...you are going to have obviously access to our customer data, which is the stuff that's sort of sensitive. You go back to the first page of the agreement, customer data is defined as all data and information captured by Flock hardware on behalf of customer through the Flock services. So images, audio and or video and the metadata associated there with. So all that stuff that is most sensitive belon...
alpr_flock Watch ▸ jump to 58:11 ▸ > ...audio and or video and the metadata associated there with. So all that stuff that is most sensitive belongs to us and is shared only in the following respects. One is to the sub-processors to provide the Flock services. Two is to support and improve Flock products and services. For avoidance of doubt. And this is why I think one of the most important things we've heard is...
alpr_flock Watch ▸ jump to 58:17 ▸ > ...belongs to us and is shared only in the following respects. One is to the sub-processors to provide the Flock services. Two is to support and improve Flock products and services. For avoidance of doubt. And this is why I think one of the most important things we've heard is using this technology in support of enforcement actions by ICE. That was one of the big concerns...
alpr_flock Watch ▸ jump to 59:05 ▸ > ...that is completely up to us as the customer to determine whether and how they receive any such data. And then at the very bottom, this language is, I will tell you, this language is unique to Middletown. And again, I want to thank Flock safety for their responsiveness to this. But this language underlined, Flock does not own and shall not sell customer data. Again, that's the important stuff. So t...
alpr_flock Watch ▸ jump to 59:13 ▸ > ...And then at the very bottom, this language is, I will tell you, this language is unique to Middletown. And again, I want to thank Flock safety for their responsiveness to this. But this language underlined, Flock does not own and shall not sell customer data. Again, that's the important stuff. So the customer will use Flock services, Flock hardware, and Flock software in a drone as first responder...
alpr_flock Watch ▸ jump to 59:18 ▸ > ...And again, I want to thank Flock safety for their responsiveness to this. But this language underlined, Flock does not own and shall not sell customer data. Again, that's the important stuff. So the customer will use Flock services, Flock hardware, and Flock software in a drone as first responder, DFR capacity, and not in a license plate reader LPR capacity. So I can let the chief speak to sort of...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 59:18 ▸ > ...And again, I want to thank Flock safety for their responsiveness to this. But this language underlined, Flock does not own and shall not sell customer data. Again, that's the important stuff. So the customer will use Flock services, Flock hardware, and Flock software in a drone as first responder, DFR capacity, and not in a license plate reader LPR capacity. So I can let the chief speak to sort of...
alpr_flock Watch ▸ jump to 59:25 ▸ > ...underlined, Flock does not own and shall not sell customer data. Again, that's the important stuff. So the customer will use Flock services, Flock hardware, and Flock software in a drone as first responder, DFR capacity, and not in a license plate reader LPR capacity. So I can let the chief speak to sort of operationally what that means. But what it should mean is that this is intended for life, h...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 1:03:17 ▸ > ...had, uh, taken their own life via jumping the bridge, uh, or, um, driving their cars into the river. Um, what had happened is in that response, obviously, uh, when these acts happen, um, people go underneath the water, uh, very quickly. Uh, the drone technology could be dispatched at the, at the first call, uh, be the first eyes to the incident and point us in the right direction. Um, we had an in...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 1:04:21 ▸ > ...about the agreement and to protect, um, that data. It does collect video. Um, obviously, that video will be considered evidence as part of any investigation that involves, uh, death or criminal action, um, an incident occurs. Uh, it provides eyes. It's basically a first responder drone. So, in the scheme of things, when a police officer responds to an incident, uh, the drone could be there, um, in...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 1:04:29 ▸ > ...that video will be considered evidence as part of any investigation that involves, uh, death or criminal action, um, an incident occurs. Uh, it provides eyes. It's basically a first responder drone. So, in the scheme of things, when a police officer responds to an incident, uh, the drone could be there, um, in flight as like a helicopter would be a manned by, uh, the state police or any other enti...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 1:04:40 ▸ > ...So, in the scheme of things, when a police officer responds to an incident, uh, the drone could be there, um, in flight as like a helicopter would be a manned by, uh, the state police or any other entity. Um, the drone give us eyes on scene to ensure resources are being deployed in the right direction with the right amount necessary and also, um, provides opportunity for, again, I can't speak abou...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 1:07:29 ▸ > ...time, but any bit of information to help us start our incident off on the right foot is only going to help us and make us better. Um, so that's kind of what we've always wanted was right from the initial dispatch call, that drone can go up and get eyes right on that bridge because they will normally float for a little bit, but then eventually they're going to go down and that current is going to t...
alpr_flock Watch ▸ jump to 1:07:47 ▸ > ...them wherever it takes them. And that current changes from minute to minute. It can, it won't be the same current when we get there in five minutes from our response. And then obviously, yes, for structure fires, uh, there's a fire anywhere throughout the city. If that flock can get up really quick, a dispatcher can see someone at the desk or someone in my department sees it. It's only going to be...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 1:12:32 ▸ > ...this doesn't work for our city? Well, the training we didn't, I wouldn't know the exact time or hours into training. I would have to obviously revisit that. Um, but the train does encompass the, the deployment of the drone is, um, AI. So the call comes out, it's dispatched by the address in which it's been, it's needed. Um, that'll be initiated through telecommunications. Um, on the police side, o...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 1:12:52 ▸ > ...AI. So the call comes out, it's dispatched by the address in which it's been, it's needed. Um, that'll be initiated through telecommunications. Um, on the police side, our, uh, front desk area would be, uh, drone operators and run the operation of the drone during the incident and to basically give eyes to our officers in the sky, um, on the, on how it would work. Um, how I think reason why I'll t...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 1:13:37 ▸ > ...we probably wouldn't continue the, continue the program. Um, that would probably be the number one reason why we wouldn't do it. Um, secondly, uh, our capabilities, we want to make sure that we're efficient. Right now, we have a number of drone operators in the agency that, for our criminal drones, um, search and rescue drones, um, that we use, uh, for major incidences. Um, most recently we had, u...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 1:14:06 ▸ > ...Um, those type of drones, um, put our officers in safe positions. Don't put our dog teams in bad positions as well. Like again, they get eyes on a location, uh, greater than a normal site. Um, so, um, those are the importance of that drone program. So if those drone operators cannot efficiently run the drone, um, with that precision, um, I don't think that would be, uh, good for our city either, b...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 1:14:11 ▸ > ...positions as well. Like again, they get eyes on a location, uh, greater than a normal site. Um, so, um, those are the importance of that drone program. So if those drone operators cannot efficiently run the drone, um, with that precision, um, I don't think that would be, uh, good for our city either, but I don't think that's going to be the case. I think, um, the technology is where it needs to be...
alpr_flock Watch ▸ jump to 1:14:58 ▸ > ...resources when it comes to our Marine unit. It wasn't truthful chief. I have one more. Um, we have drone rescue operators now, the AI flock system. And just again, just for clarification, this would be deployed from, um, a specific location and be there before our drone operators would be there to help dictate where they would then operate. Is that what I'm hearing?...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 1:14:58 ▸ > ...resources when it comes to our Marine unit. It wasn't truthful chief. I have one more. Um, we have drone rescue operators now, the AI flock system. And just again, just for clarification, this would be deployed from, um, a specific location and be there before our drone operators would be there to help dictate where they would then operate. Is that what I'm hearing?...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 1:15:07 ▸ > ...It wasn't truthful chief. I have one more. Um, we have drone rescue operators now, the AI flock system. And just again, just for clarification, this would be deployed from, um, a specific location and be there before our drone operators would be there to help dictate where they would then operate. Is that what I'm hearing? The people at the front desk will be trained on every shift will be somebod...
alpr_flock Watch ▸ jump to 1:15:21 ▸ > ...would be there to help dictate where they would then operate. Is that what I'm hearing? The people at the front desk will be trained on every shift will be somebody trained to be able to run the operation of the flock on every, every scheduled day of, uh, of the patrol division in that front desk area. Right. I, I, I understand that, but we already have drone operators now, correct?...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 1:15:30 ▸ > ...trained to be able to run the operation of the flock on every, every scheduled day of, uh, of the patrol division in that front desk area. Right. I, I, I understand that, but we already have drone operators now, correct? We do. And we have a different style of drone. Right. That's what I mean. I, I just wanted to clarify. So I'm, I'm understanding that. So...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 1:15:35 ▸ > ...of, uh, of the patrol division in that front desk area. Right. I, I, I understand that, but we already have drone operators now, correct? We do. And we have a different style of drone. Right. That's what I mean. I, I just wanted to clarify. So I'm, I'm understanding that. So from the front desk, we could send someone, we could send the drone to that area before our...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 1:15:43 ▸ > ...We do. And we have a different style of drone. Right. That's what I mean. I, I just wanted to clarify. So I'm, I'm understanding that. So from the front desk, we could send someone, we could send the drone to that area before our actual other drone operators get to the actual location. Absolutely. If we have to go to do further searches or whatever else we, I'm sure we could work...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 1:15:49 ▸ > ...Right. That's what I mean. I, I just wanted to clarify. So I'm, I'm understanding that. So from the front desk, we could send someone, we could send the drone to that area before our actual other drone operators get to the actual location. Absolutely. If we have to go to do further searches or whatever else we, I'm sure we could work in, uh, okay. Accordance with the, with the larger drone, um, th...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 1:15:59 ▸ > ...actual other drone operators get to the actual location. Absolutely. If we have to go to do further searches or whatever else we, I'm sure we could work in, uh, okay. Accordance with the, with the larger drone, um, that drone would essentially probably beat the first units on scene. That's what I mean. So like with my drone, we have to get on scene, we have to get drone operators and then deploy i...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 1:16:07 ▸ > ...Absolutely. If we have to go to do further searches or whatever else we, I'm sure we could work in, uh, okay. Accordance with the, with the larger drone, um, that drone would essentially probably beat the first units on scene. That's what I mean. So like with my drone, we have to get on scene, we have to get drone operators and then deploy it. So it could be, if I have a drone operator working, it...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 1:16:11 ▸ > ...in, uh, okay. Accordance with the, with the larger drone, um, that drone would essentially probably beat the first units on scene. That's what I mean. So like with my drone, we have to get on scene, we have to get drone operators and then deploy it. So it could be, if I have a drone operator working, it could be still a five to 10 minute, um, deployment from time around scene, or there could be da...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 1:16:22 ▸ > ...get on scene, we have to get drone operators and then deploy it. So it could be, if I have a drone operator working, it could be still a five to 10 minute, um, deployment from time around scene, or there could be days I don't have a drone operator working and I'll have to call someone from home. That's when we would ask PD to come help. And then vice versa, PD didn't have a drone operator working....
drone Watch ▸ jump to 1:16:27 ▸ > ...operator working, it could be still a five to 10 minute, um, deployment from time around scene, or there could be days I don't have a drone operator working and I'll have to call someone from home. That's when we would ask PD to come help. And then vice versa, PD didn't have a drone operator working. They would ask us if we had one. So there is a delay with the man operated drones. And I can also ...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 1:16:48 ▸ > ...And I can also give you an example as well as that from time to time, we have many calls of service where there's a large fight. People call it. There's 50 people fighting in the middle of the street. This drone would be a first responder. Actually, it's only two people fighting in the street with people just watching. So that, that changes our response as a police department. When you have a larg...
alpr_flock Watch ▸ jump to 1:19:11 ▸ > ...board. Um, I know how important these things are to the city. Okay. Thank you, Chief. Uh, any other questions for customer, Chief Albert? Regarding flock drone agreement? Okay. Uh, did we need to vote on this moving to, um, GCC? Uh, because it's a new agreement now, correct? I believe it doesn't require. Oh, I'm sorry. It doesn't have to go to GCC. Um,...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 1:19:11 ▸ > ...board. Um, I know how important these things are to the city. Okay. Thank you, Chief. Uh, any other questions for customer, Chief Albert? Regarding flock drone agreement? Okay. Uh, did we need to vote on this moving to, um, GCC? Uh, because it's a new agreement now, correct? I believe it doesn't require. Oh, I'm sorry. It doesn't have to go to GCC. Um,...
alpr_flock Watch ▸ jump to 1:22:50 ▸ > ...based on public concern has taken another look and amended said master agreement and recommends that it be, uh, sent to council as amended. So a motion to approve that that revised agreement, master agreement for the flock drone system be presented to council. Okay. So we would need a motion for people to recommend that we're going to send it to the council. I'll make that motion. We send it back,...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 1:22:50 ▸ > ...based on public concern has taken another look and amended said master agreement and recommends that it be, uh, sent to council as amended. So a motion to approve that that revised agreement, master agreement for the flock drone system be presented to council. Okay. So we would need a motion for people to recommend that we're going to send it to the council. I'll make that motion. We send it back,...
alpr_flock Watch ▸ jump to 1:25:54 ▸ > ...My name is Paris Pollack, uh, [address redacted]. I just like to submit two questions for the record. Um, I would like, uh, to see more clarification on the differences between the drones that we already have and the drones that flock can deploy and approximately how much time we're saving. And I'd also like to ask ask how this type of drone system will prevent people from jumping off the ...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 1:26:06 ▸ > ...record. Um, I would like, uh, to see more clarification on the differences between the drones that we already have and the drones that flock can deploy and approximately how much time we're saving. And I'd also like to ask ask how this type of drone system will prevent people from jumping off the bridge and what we can do to stop that from happening. And that's all I have to say. Thanks. Is there ...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 1:27:09 ▸ > ...know, we already have drones. We already have the, uh, the, the capability to man those drones, you know, $50,000, even just in one year is a lot of money. Um, what if we spent $2,000 training someone and maybe buying parts for a drone, or what if we spent $3,000 buying a new drone that's, you know, fit for the winds of the milltown river. Um, and we also paid to train, you know, more of the offic...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 1:27:58 ▸ > ...concerned citizen about the, you know, use of, uh, funds. I also care about the, um, the safety of, of everybody involved. And I do hope that people can be saved from the river, saved from suicide attempts in the future. I just think that, uh, you know, drone wise, why don't we just train in house? Why are we, uh, you know, contracting out. That's fine. Thank you. Anyone else from the public who w...
alpr_flock Watch ▸ jump to 1:28:40 ▸ > ...Hello, everybody. My name is Brendan Berry, and I am a student at Wesleyan University. My address at Wesleyan is [address redacted] I would like to, first of all, thank, uh, chief Albert and chief Costa for taking the time to be here today in regards to the presentation and discussion on the flock drones. I have, I myself have concerns over whether or not the data collected on these drones will, i...
alpr_flock Watch ▸ jump to 1:28:52 ▸ > ...taking the time to be here today in regards to the presentation and discussion on the flock drones. I have, I myself have concerns over whether or not the data collected on these drones will, in fact, remain middle towns. There have been many instances where flock drone data has been legally or illegally shared with DHS and with other law enforcement organizations, both nationally and on the munic...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 1:28:52 ▸ > ...taking the time to be here today in regards to the presentation and discussion on the flock drones. I have, I myself have concerns over whether or not the data collected on these drones will, in fact, remain middle towns. There have been many instances where flock drone data has been legally or illegally shared with DHS and with other law enforcement organizations, both nationally and on the munic...
alpr_flock Watch ▸ jump to 1:29:12 ▸ > ...shared with DHS and with other law enforcement organizations, both nationally and on the municipal level across the country. Even when that ran against the contracts that were signed, there was a city in Wisconsin that had to cancel their contract with flock because the organization, the corporation violated that stipulation of the contract. That was supposed to keep the data in the hands of the l...
alpr_flock Watch ▸ jump to 1:29:24 ▸ > ...city in Wisconsin that had to cancel their contract with flock because the organization, the corporation violated that stipulation of the contract. That was supposed to keep the data in the hands of the local city government. The LAPD also recently canceled their contract with flock as has Cambridge and many other cities across the country. And so I do really wonder, you know, to what extent are w...
fusion_center Watch ▸ jump to 1:30:00 ▸ > ...what guarantees are there for the immigrants in our community that the data on these drones isn't going to be collected to be used in immigration enforcement, especially given the fact that we have a an intelligence fusion center right here in Middletown with representation from DHS. And so I really would like to see some more guarantees that the data being collected here is not, in fact, going to...
alpr_flock Watch ▸ jump to 1:30:16 ▸ > ...like to see some more guarantees that the data being collected here is not, in fact, going to be shared with with national immigration enforcement or with other law enforcement organizations around the country. And unfortunately, given flock's track record, I really don't believe that the current stipulations outlined in the contract would be sufficient in providing that. Thank you. Thank you, Bre...
alpr_flock Watch ▸ jump to 1:30:44 ▸ > ...Thank you, Brendan. Is there anyone else from the public? Hello again. Anson Melek, [address redacted]. Again, kind of on the software front of things, I have issues with even if we strike up some deal, some agreement with flock that it'll be enforceable. This is kind of the central grift with software companies is just like the hyperlink that the presenter mentioned before where they can change t...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 1:31:02 ▸ > ...This is kind of the central grift with software companies is just like the hyperlink that the presenter mentioned before where they can change the deal at any time. Unless you view the code, compile the code and put that code in the drone itself, you won't truly know what that drone is doing. And on top of that, there's alternatives to that, like having the code reviewed by third-party privacy com...
alpr_flock Watch ▸ jump to 1:31:16 ▸ > ...compile the code and put that code in the drone itself, you won't truly know what that drone is doing. And on top of that, there's alternatives to that, like having the code reviewed by third-party privacy companies. And as far as I know, flock has refused to do that. So again, there is no safety guarantees or even enforceability guarantees with this drone. Thank you. Thank you. Could you just rep...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 1:31:22 ▸ > ...And on top of that, there's alternatives to that, like having the code reviewed by third-party privacy companies. And as far as I know, flock has refused to do that. So again, there is no safety guarantees or even enforceability guarantees with this drone. Thank you. Thank you. Could you just repeat that last part? You kind of lost me there. Cool. Yeah. Which part?...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 1:31:55 ▸ > ...You know, pass that. You said enforceability, hyperlink, view code, and then compliance code. So basically, if you're unable to view the code that's been compiled, you can have a third-party security agency basically look at the drone and make sure it's not talking to anything else, like communicating to other servers or talking to other agencies. And as far as I know, I'm not an expert in the spe...
alpr_flock Watch ▸ jump to 1:32:09 ▸ > ...security agency basically look at the drone and make sure it's not talking to anything else, like communicating to other servers or talking to other agencies. And as far as I know, I'm not an expert in the specific instance, but flock has refused to do that. They refuse to... Let somebody look at it....
alpr_flock Watch ▸ jump to 1:32:20 ▸ > ...They refuse to... Let somebody look at it. They have security researchers look at it. Specifically, I should say the flock cameras. I don't know about the drone, but they're, yeah, same jurisdiction. I just want to make sure....
drone Watch ▸ jump to 1:32:23 ▸ > ...Let somebody look at it. They have security researchers look at it. Specifically, I should say the flock cameras. I don't know about the drone, but they're, yeah, same jurisdiction. I just want to make sure. No, yeah. No, thank you so much. Thanks for your time, everyone....
alpr_flock Watch ▸ jump to 1:33:08 ▸ > ...Mr. and Mrs. Reed. Hi, this is Mads Reed again, [address redacted]. Having heard the response by flock via the city attorney, I just want to go on record. I'm not comforted by any of what was said. I do not believe the sales pitch from the tech companies, the reassurance of our privacy and our data....

2026-06-15 -- Public Safety Commission

Public Safety Committee Fire June 2026 (topics: drone)

drone Watch ▸ jump to 1:55 ▸ > ...I'm not seeing anyone online at this moment and there's no one here in 208. So I will close this portion of the agenda and hand it over to Chief Albert. So for correspondence, I did not have any for the month monthly report. We had 392 calls. That was our highest call line to date. It was our busiest month by about 40 to 40 calls or so. We did do several mutual aid calls to South fire district, bu...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 3:33 ▸ > ...And it was a good time just to have people there and fellowshipping together. And then we did have, obviously, the pride event. I want to thank Chief Costa for the hospitality, like always at the PD. We do put our fire staff in that command and their command post as well. We have our drone pilots on the roof. And like always, you guys had great hospitality. We do really work very well together bet...

2026-06-15 -- Public Safety Commission

Public Safety Committee Police June 2026 (topics: drone)

drone Watch ▸ jump to 9:18 ▸ > ...Body one cameras. And then the concerns with, obviously, the fallout of the FLOC cameras and those data sharing. We are in the midst of finalizing our contracts with FLOC for the first response drone. I thought, I'll be honest with you, Briggs, Smith did a great job protecting the city and the data and those things that are necessary for that program. We are hoping we can get funding for that firs...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 9:37 ▸ > ...We are in the midst of finalizing our contracts with FLOC for the first response drone. I thought, I'll be honest with you, Briggs, Smith did a great job protecting the city and the data and those things that are necessary for that program. We are hoping we can get funding for that first year for that drone, so we're looking forward to the opportunity to having it almost there. It's not there yet....

2026-03-05 -- Public Safety Commission

Public Safety Commission Police March 5th 2026 (topics: alpr, drone)

drone Watch ▸ jump to 17:00 ▸ > ...it minimizes confusion it minimizes discrepancy and when officers are making decisions they're making sound decisions when responding to calls because they are front-loaded with information um and knowing what they're going into um that being said um we're looking to expand our drone program at the department enhance our license plate reader technology we are not a flock lpr city we don't we're no...
alpr_flock Watch ▸ jump to 17:07 ▸ > ...sound decisions when responding to calls because they are front-loaded with information um and knowing what they're going into um that being said um we're looking to expand our drone program at the department enhance our license plate reader technology we are not a flock lpr city we don't we're not with flock we are with recor and odonai which is um only a clue what they call closed loop we own al...
alpr_flock Watch ▸ jump to 22:11 ▸ > ...more than happy to answer but if not i can move on to our new business i don't need any hands chief our new business first and foremost i know last um common council meeting on monday we've dealt with flock dfr program which is our drone program i know the project was um tabled for next month as um general council will be dealing with working with flock um council to um put in provisions that are ...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 22:11 ▸ > ...more than happy to answer but if not i can move on to our new business i don't need any hands chief our new business first and foremost i know last um common council meeting on monday we've dealt with flock dfr program which is our drone program i know the project was um tabled for next month as um general council will be dealing with working with flock um council to um put in provisions that are ...
alpr_flock Watch ▸ jump to 22:20 ▸ > ...i don't need any hands chief our new business first and foremost i know last um common council meeting on monday we've dealt with flock dfr program which is our drone program i know the project was um tabled for next month as um general council will be dealing with working with flock um council to um put in provisions that are stronger in language so um the data is um protected um in a layman's te...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 23:59 ▸ > ...know all the things that you don't want people to have the data for for self uh for their self uh purposes or for sale um these will be uh i think they can restrict the data just to criminal activity and needs and that's more than appropriate um so with the drone itself it's it's a first responder it's an it's basically an officer in the air it's a helicopter you've probably seen through the 80s a...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 24:29 ▸ > ...i will tell you that our first time we used our drones was in south south fire we had a forest fire and they didn't know the extent of the size of the fire until we brought the drone out there um so we used the drone to find out the scope uh without putting any firemen in harm's way to try to identify uh the edges of the forest fire and to identify hot spots um that was a significant uh piece uh l...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 24:57 ▸ > ...identify hot spots um that was a significant uh piece uh lieutenant by switch was there and praised the drones for for that safety um it's the same thing here we had four uh suicides uh three um that were successful one that was uh found seriously injured the drone gets deployed uh in the water uh near the water we find the locations faster we put our divers in faster in the location where we know...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 25:24 ▸ > ...we didn't know that until thank god a witness had come forward and said no that's not where he jumped this is where he's jumped from we thought it was when we're looking in the water he's actually on the land the drone can identify that faster if we had we had it up in the air those are the things that this drone will do for us and again i'll reiterate this is um a cost that does not go to the tax...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 25:29 ▸ > ...this is where he's jumped from we thought it was when we're looking in the water he's actually on the land the drone can identify that faster if we had we had it up in the air those are the things that this drone will do for us and again i'll reiterate this is um a cost that does not go to the taxpayer it will go through um for grant funding that we have secured fifty thousand dollars so we're loo...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 26:20 ▸ > ...can you comment on that it's not a true statement that's the best way i can answer i mean i know people are concerned i think i could say it a thousand ways councilman um i can tell you that that drone data cannot be used uh or um ice can't just search that information it's a video we hold that in the cloud in the secured cloud it would have to ask for permission um they can with that being said t...
alpr_flock Watch ▸ jump to 28:08 ▸ > ...to do that either and here in connecticut yeah but nonetheless i do understand and um i can only tell you what i know about the project thank you chief thank you uh keep just to give a little bit more context um and just looking up you know flock and since they are you know part of many drone companies that have uh that are in the business of you know providing services not only to government but ...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 28:08 ▸ > ...to do that either and here in connecticut yeah but nonetheless i do understand and um i can only tell you what i know about the project thank you chief thank you uh keep just to give a little bit more context um and just looking up you know flock and since they are you know part of many drone companies that have uh that are in the business of you know providing services not only to government but ...
alpr_flock Watch ▸ jump to 29:00 ▸ > ...and the use of those drones and the services is meant to provide exactly that safety and information driven to provide increased levels and enhance the safety for our first responders and for the individuals who need that response so at no point in time flock was going to have any backdoor or back-ended way in which to take or record any data or information and then utilize that or sell that off o...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 29:41 ▸ > ...than rescind it uh we pulled it from the agenda to give general counsel and uh to hear what the citizens are saying so we can move forward with this project that i think to your point would be extremely helpful and again i can't like just in the scheme of things in the business um end of it is that flox drone program their actual equipment is is at the top of the line is the best the best and uh t...
alpr_flock Watch ▸ jump to 30:09 ▸ > ...vendors that have come out that we had looked at um and they weren't to the standards that we were looking for the maintenance the care um and obviously we don't want to be paying um fees that we didn't think were necessary and um that's why flock is the national leader in that um but the drone doesn't collect data where they could share with others uh just just one other question um you know barr...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 30:09 ▸ > ...vendors that have come out that we had looked at um and they weren't to the standards that we were looking for the maintenance the care um and obviously we don't want to be paying um fees that we didn't think were necessary and um that's why flock is the national leader in that um but the drone doesn't collect data where they could share with others uh just just one other question um you know barr...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 31:35 ▸ > ...um so would this be uh something that since we do do mutual aid and we're talking about you know where we're responding to other areas would this be something that we could also collaborate with our surrounding towns to kind of help with the cost or no we can't because the drone is only allowed it can only travel three miles from the point of where it's carried uh the cradle is so that's all our m...
alpr_flock Watch ▸ jump to 33:09 ▸ > ...yeah definitely well i really wanted to add more of a statement than a question um as a reassurance to the to the group and to to anyone that you know comes across the recording is that um in digesting the the public's feedback is that i had reached out to both chiefs and asked if we took the the flock drones out of the mix how do our other drones compare what do we have for data collection with t...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 34:20 ▸ > ...that other people will feel reassured as well and thank you again for sending that information i appreciate it absolutely thank you i don't have any more questions chief okay um i'm gonna i'm i'm gonna move on from the drone discussion um in front of us uh we tonight we have a vote that needs to occur to move on to gcc i believe is the revision of the ordinance uh 3-1-1-31-11 um which is the abili...

2026-02-02 -- Common Council

COMMON COUNCIL - SPECIAL MEETING -- QUESTIONS TO DIRECTORS (topics: drone)

drone Watch ▸ jump to 4:44 ▸ > ...So once a call comes in, the dispatcher will be able to hit a button. The drone will self-deploy. It uses GIS and map data, and it's going to go straight to the incident,...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 6:37 ▸ > ...You and your departments. And while you're both there, I have an additional question about the drone, which is really, I've watched it on TV. It's amazing....
drone Watch ▸ jump to 6:58 ▸ > ...What's that? So both departments already have a fully certified drone team. Police and fire, we actually train with each other on a monthly basis....
drone Watch ▸ jump to 7:06 ▸ > ...We also help each other out with calls. If I have a fire, my drone's not available right away. His team will deploy theirs and vice versa. So this drone self-flies...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 7:10 ▸ > ...my drone's not available right away. His team will deploy theirs and vice versa. So this drone self-flies now it will have the ability of once our drone operators come on scene,...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 7:14 ▸ > ...So this drone self-flies now it will have the ability of once our drone operators come on scene, they will then be able to take control of the drone or fly our drone....
drone Watch ▸ jump to 7:16 ▸ > ...now it will have the ability of once our drone operators come on scene, they will then be able to take control of the drone or fly our drone. So we already have people that are certified....
drone Watch ▸ jump to 7:18 ▸ > ...once our drone operators come on scene, they will then be able to take control of the drone or fly our drone. So we already have people that are certified. No additional training is needed...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 7:35 ▸ > ...By the contract. Yeah. All the training that's required to work this new drone would be part of the contract that's in front of you. Okay....
drone Watch ▸ jump to 7:55 ▸ > ...Okay. But they are participating in the sense of pressing the button. The biggest thing about this drone is it deploys the drone so we can adequately send our personnel out appropriately. And sometimes reports of incidences are much bigger...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 8:12 ▸ > ...than what they actually are and vice versa. They're much bigger than reported, and the drone will help us in that deployment. I know on the fire side, it will definitely help them out as well. Yeah, because I've seen that on TV, and it's more specific,...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 8:57 ▸ > ...especially with the river, with the bridge. My dream was to always have, say, we get a jumper off the bridge, to have that drone deploy right away, not wait for us to get on scene, open it up, charge it up, and run it. It would go right from the firehouse....
drone Watch ▸ jump to 9:23 ▸ > ...especially for our response to Wesleyan University. We have situations where a crisis occurs on campus. This drone will deploy with putting us in a safety position where we can deploy officers strategically to minimize any threats that may occur on that campus....
drone Watch ▸ jump to 9:40 ▸ > ...The same thing with the hospital. If we have any threats in the hospital where we feel an appropriate response, this drone will give us that opportunity to pre-plan and info load prior to our arrival, which is very important in crisis situations. Yeah, we have a lot of facilities that will benefit from that, definitely....
drone Watch ▸ jump to 9:57 ▸ > ...Yeah, we have a lot of facilities that will benefit from that, definitely. You can add the gas company, the natural gas, and those type of companies as well. That drone will be able to touch those locations. Right. Awesome....
drone Watch ▸ jump to 10:14 ▸ > ...Next is Councilwoman Sweeney, please. Thank you, Your Honor. While we're talking about all the wonderful things this drone will be able to see, can you speak to the data privacy aspects of it, how that data will be stored, or if it won't be stored long-term?...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 10:26 ▸ > ...can you speak to the data privacy aspects of it, how that data will be stored, or if it won't be stored long-term? This isn't a drone that would collect, like, of concerns, like LPR, license plate data, those type of things. It would not, that won't record those type of things....

2025-10-20 -- Public Safety Commission

Public Safety Commission Fire Oct. 2025 (topics: drone)

drone Watch ▸ jump to 8:20 ▸ > ...left of it you don't want to tell it true yeah so i'm just saying but there's access points so we got there's vulnerabilities and we just got to make sure that because okay yeah yep uh so events i i attended all my required monthly meetings um the connecticut state police purchased a underwater drone um they were kind enough to bring it out to one of our marine unit trainings and get it on the boa...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 8:37 ▸ > ...were kind enough to bring it out to one of our marine unit trainings and get it on the boat with us and show us their its capabilities it is a resource for us and pd to call if we do get a dive incident where we know it is going to be long term and we need to run sonar and have the drone all we have to do is ask for it and it'll be there so um through the trainings that we've done we we created a ...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 16:20 ▸ > ...the language actually jives with what we're currently doing because some of those policies were from before i even got hired and there's things in there that we haven't even heard of so it's time that we really update those um training for the month our drone team was invited to a swap exercise up at higbee um like the capital region swap teams there's swat teams from all over the place but they a...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 16:33 ▸ > ...we really update those um training for the month our drone team was invited to a swap exercise up at higbee um like the capital region swap teams there's swat teams from all over the place but they asked our drone team to come up and help in conjunction with it we were there for most of the day it was really awesome to see and uh seeing their mobile command vehicle as well i really made myself and...

2025-10-01 -- Inland Wetlands and Watercourses Agency

INLAND WETLAND AND WATERCOURSES AGENCY (topics: drone)

drone Watch ▸ jump to 24:45 ▸ > ...So those, oh, what, I meant to bring this up, the, the, um, uh, [address redacted]. Yeah. Um, the word drone is not spelled correctly. What's it spelled? How's it spelled?...

2025-04-28 -- Public Safety Commission

Public Safety Commission April 2025 - Fire (topics: drone)

drone Watch ▸ jump to 15:12 ▸ > ...Go through the city at our real target hazards all 1 year, we talked about open area active shooter, maybe like a 4th of July firework. We really need to start simulating where our true target hazards are, but it was a phenomenal 2 day event. And I think it was an eye opener and I can tell you there's no cities because we're all working collaboratively that looks something to scale. And next month...

2024-12-16 -- Public Safety Commission

Public Safety Commission - Police, December 2024 (topics: drone)

drone Watch ▸ jump to 52:08 ▸ > ...My name is Laura Timmons. I'm at [address redacted] in Middletown. I saw some chatter about drone sightings and things like that. I guess I'd like to hear your opinion on it. I don't have an intelligent one on it, unfortunately....

2024-10-21 -- Public Safety Commission

Public Safety Commission - October 21, 2024 Fire (topics: drone)

drone Watch ▸ jump to 7:42 ▸ > ...And that kind of also led me to something out and talk about new business as well. Another busy month of training, like always, we concluded our dive training, drone training, company level training. And then we had a two-day active shooter drill at Mile Lane. And I talked about it at CBV as well the very next day once it was completed. And we actually made history last month with all the departme...

2024-09-16 -- Public Safety Commission

Public Safety Commission - Fire September 16, 2024 (topics: drone)

drone Watch ▸ jump to 2:20 ▸ > ...Someone tried to commit suicide, drive their car in the river and would not tell anybody if there's anybody else in. So our dive team had to go and we had to dive and confirm that the vehicle was empty. So that was all in an eight day span. So extremely busy, extremely challenging, a lot of tragedies. And, you know, obviously the tragedy with LTIR, who he actually taught our drone program. So abou...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 4:49 ▸ > ...I think it's a great thing and I have a lot of fun. So I'll be doing that for the next several Mondays. Training, dive, marine, and drone continued as always. Company level training and then rebid training with South Fire District all last week on Eastern Drive that acquired structure. So we've been doing some joint operation trainings together there....

2024-09-16 -- Public Safety Commission

Public Safety Commission - Police, September 16, 2024 (topics: drone)

drone Watch ▸ jump to 35:33 ▸ > ...So, I just wanted to... But that helps. We're also looking at using our drone program as a patrol potentially. Yeah. But that will be if it's......

2024-08-26 -- Public Safety Commission

Public Safety Commission Special Meeting - Fire & Police - August 26, 2024 (topics: drone)

drone Watch ▸ jump to 5:09 ▸ > ...We're there for an EMS, but we're also there for fire education and it's also a recruiting tool. You know, it's I'll see the fire truck. We see the drone. We see the bikes, you know, something might pique their interest. So, um, I'm definitely trying to get out in the community a lot more than my guys....
drone Watch ▸ jump to 5:20 ▸ > ...So, um, I'm definitely trying to get out in the community a lot more than my guys. Uh, training busy as always. We had our dive, marine and drone training like we do every month. Uh, we bought new forecast meters for all the apparatus. So the assistant chief had to train all 4 platoons on that....

2024-07-15 -- Public Safety Commission

Public Safety Commission July 15, 2024 - Fire (topics: drone)

drone Watch ▸ jump to 7:53 ▸ > ...So we did have Eversource come in for four days. They did underground emergencies with all four shifts. We did a three guys went to two weeks of drone class. So we added three more certified drone pilots for our drone team. We did have five guys attend a diver class throughout the summer as well....
drone Watch ▸ jump to 7:56 ▸ > ...They did underground emergencies with all four shifts. We did a three guys went to two weeks of drone class. So we added three more certified drone pilots for our drone team. We did have five guys attend a diver class throughout the summer as well. So we've added three divers and two line tenders....
drone Watch ▸ jump to 9:19 ▸ > ...Under old business. So my fill overtime did pick up with just some summer vacancies. And then obviously with the drone class and the dive class, we are we allowed approved leave for that. That's stuff that we've done because it's team specific team training. So, you know, it kind of did come with a cost sending the people to class and then I had to cover their shifts....

2024-07-01 -- Public Safety Commission

Public Safety Commission, Fire - June 17, 2024 (topics: drone)

drone Watch ▸ jump to 4:43 ▸ > ...We did host a trench class to get our department up to speed with all the new hires. We continued our building walkthroughs and pre-planning, dive and marine training. We had our monthly drone training. We reviewed on our annual active violence policies and training as well. And then we did a annual department refresher in trench training....

2024-07-01 -- Public Safety Commission

Public Safety Commission, Police - June 17, 2024 (topics: drone)

drone Watch ▸ jump to 3:04 ▸ > ...Pride being probably the largest pride since I've been here. I think it was somewhere around 35,000 people that we've estimated. All over 200 vendors, about eight city blocks, side streets, 70 police officers to include emergency response teams, support from the city of Hawford, bomb units to patrol the area to protect any potential hazards. To our drone units and partnerships with our stakeholder...

2024-03-18 -- Public Safety Commission

Public Safety Commission Meeting - Fire, March 18, 2024 (topics: drone)

drone Watch ▸ jump to 5:45 ▸ > ...increasing the features now members can just ask for a vacation day on their phone um i've integrated all our truck inspections now right through the phone app and it sends it right to me so it's a good thing and uh so that that's been a plus i did attend drone training we do have an indoor drone and we flew it at kegwin with our drone team what we're going to use that drone for is in the event of...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 5:52 ▸ > ...all our truck inspections now right through the phone app and it sends it right to me so it's a good thing and uh so that that's been a plus i did attend drone training we do have an indoor drone and we flew it at kegwin with our drone team what we're going to use that drone for is in the event of you know an active assailant or active shooter incident we can fly that drone inside the building fir...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 5:57 ▸ > ...thing and uh so that that's been a plus i did attend drone training we do have an indoor drone and we flew it at kegwin with our drone team what we're going to use that drone for is in the event of you know an active assailant or active shooter incident we can fly that drone inside the building first for recon i do believe pd is in the process of getting one and we've already reached out to your m...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 6:07 ▸ > ...you know an active assailant or active shooter incident we can fly that drone inside the building first for recon i do believe pd is in the process of getting one and we've already reached out to your members and hopefully the next time we train this month uh we'll have your drone team there as well and we'll do it as a as a unit um so that that was pretty cool i had a labor management meeting i'l...

2024-03-18 -- Public Safety Commission

Public Safety Commission Meeting - Police, March 18, 2024 (topics: body_camera)

body_camera Watch ▸ jump to 18:11 ▸ > ...contractual obligations but things like that we don't think about like police cars everyone thinks about a police officer just driving a police car it spends gas it puts lights on it has a siren but the equipment in there is mandated you have to have a body-worn camera system that's in there that has a hot spot modems in that car um our next-gen systems and dmv systems that are in there and then o...

2024-02-26 -- Public Safety Commission

Public Safety Commission Meeting, Fire - February 26, 2024 (topics: drone)

drone Watch ▸ jump to 3:06 ▸ > ...All right. Is there anyone else from the public who wishes to speak for the fire department? If no one. I don't see anyone at this time, so I'll close this portion of the agenda and move on to correspondence and hand it over to Chief Warren. Okay. Evening everyone. No correspondence for the month. The monthly report, 336 emergency calls. We had a major structure fire on Scarborough Lane and Westfi...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 6:08 ▸ > ...Uh, teaching us, uh, uh, teaching us better skills at a fire. Uh, once we extinguish fires, it's, it's kind of a fine line. We leave a lot of times we, we leave the building then for them to investigate the fire without disturbing, uh, as much as possible in the extinguishment. So, uh, uh, state farm marshals came in and, and gave a class on, uh, uh, you know, what to touch, what not to touch. Tha...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 6:22 ▸ > ...So, uh, uh, state farm marshals came in and, and gave a class on, uh, uh, you know, what to touch, what not to touch. That was great, great information. And then our, uh, aerial support team, uh, did some, uh, training of the drones. Uh, we have a large drone and we have a small drone. A small drone, uh, has capabilities of flying inside buildings and that would be used for multitude of hazardous ...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 6:38 ▸ > ...A small drone, uh, has capabilities of flying inside buildings and that would be used for multitude of hazardous materials, active violence. Uh, so, uh, they, they did a couple of hours of flying inside Keglin school. Uh, some very interesting footage of, uh, them doing that. So when, when they fly the small drone, uh, they wear special goggles and they have a, uh, joystick. And it's, it's, it's l...

2023-12-18 -- Public Safety Commission

Public Safety Commission Meeting December 18, 2023 - Fire (topics: drone)

drone Watch ▸ jump to 8:27 ▸ > ...a couple weeks ago we had a large fire in westfield last wednesday evening on stantac road again we went mutual aid with two engine companies our drone and four fire chiefs that's again it was in the media this that that's an unhydrated area of the city so uh that's uh tanker trucks bring the water to those fires we get we got there uh middletown fire we got there relatively fast um as soon as the...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 9:35 ▸ > ...baskets to the kiwanis thanksgiving program uh attended the christian tree lighting at south green uh attended the monthly opioid task force subcommittee meeting uh we had a joint uh middletown fire middletown police drone training out at my lane uh both drone programs got together and uh did some tracking of uh personnel um lost personnel and then did some uh we have smaller drone that could fly ...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 9:55 ▸ > ...uh we had a joint uh middletown fire middletown police drone training out at my lane uh both drone programs got together and uh did some tracking of uh personnel um lost personnel and then did some uh we have smaller drone that could fly inside the building so we did some indoor drone training so uh it was a great we invited um middletown's middletown high's avionics program came and met with both...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 10:10 ▸ > ...uh we have smaller drone that could fly inside the building so we did some indoor drone training so uh it was a great we invited um middletown's middletown high's avionics program came and met with both drone teams uh that's who did some of our initial training so it's no actually there's a two and two uh teachers there i'll teach that they did our initial faa certification so we wanted to uh invi...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 16:35 ▸ > ...the uh training division did gear inspection for both sets of protective gear gets inspected each year uh and lawn that was inspected looking for any kind of deficiencies or uh age requirements on it so that that was done in the past week uh multiple drone training exercises with the drone team uh all four shifts did a walk through of the new field apartments uh they did two weeks of extrication t...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 16:41 ▸ > ...year uh and lawn that was inspected looking for any kind of deficiencies or uh age requirements on it so that that was done in the past week uh multiple drone training exercises with the drone team uh all four shifts did a walk through of the new field apartments uh they did two weeks of extrication training and uh on city yard the vehicles were placed at city yard and they also did lifting and st...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 21:39 ▸ > ...anything additional they need to do so uh they were estimating the v cuts at about 2500 and then they need to go from there once they can inspect once they make the cuts and have to bond it uh our four new drone we have four more new drone pilots they passed their faa uh written certification tests and now they've uh uh doing the hands-on training and they have to do a nist certification because w...

2023-11-20 -- Public Safety Commission

Public Safety Commission Meeting November 20, 2023 - Fire (topics: drone)

drone Watch ▸ jump to 19:12 ▸ > ...So that means we'll have two more going to recruit class starts on February 14th. Let's see. New business. Believe it or not, we're starting to prepare for a budget, getting the budget ready again, 30 that time of year. We have four new drone pilots in school. We purchased a second smaller drone and that one of the reasons we bought a smaller one. We can actually fly the drone into a building, ins...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 19:20 ▸ > ...Let's see. New business. Believe it or not, we're starting to prepare for a budget, getting the budget ready again, 30 that time of year. We have four new drone pilots in school. We purchased a second smaller drone and that one of the reasons we bought a smaller one. We can actually fly the drone into a building, inside a building if we have to. And there's multiple incidents where it would benefi...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 19:30 ▸ > ...We have four new drone pilots in school. We purchased a second smaller drone and that one of the reasons we bought a smaller one. We can actually fly the drone into a building, inside a building if we have to. And there's multiple incidents where it would benefit us or PD or both of us to have the capability to send an unmanned drone into a building, send us a video feed out. The 28th of this mont...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 19:37 ▸ > ...We purchased a second smaller drone and that one of the reasons we bought a smaller one. We can actually fly the drone into a building, inside a building if we have to. And there's multiple incidents where it would benefit us or PD or both of us to have the capability to send an unmanned drone into a building, send us a video feed out. The 28th of this month, we have a group training exercise with...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 19:59 ▸ > ...And there's multiple incidents where it would benefit us or PD or both of us to have the capability to send an unmanned drone into a building, send us a video feed out. The 28th of this month, we have a group training exercise with PD. That's going to be a mile lane with both drone teams and the SWAT team. And they're going to do a group exercise with both units. That's not competitive, correct?...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 20:20 ▸ > ...No, no, that is not. How's the tech team get water? So, actually, this will be, they'll actually be flying the drone inside the mile lane facility, doing some reconnaissance. Oh, wow. Working with the SWAT team, so it'll be soon....
drone Watch ▸ jump to 20:33 ▸ > ...Working with the SWAT team, so it'll be soon. It's good. It's been a great, it's been great to see the supervision that runs our drone program. And it's reached out with PD, and they've been meeting and working together. It's awesome....

2023-09-18 -- Public Safety Commission

Public Safety Commission Meeting - September 18, 2023 - Fire (topics: drone)

drone Watch ▸ jump to 2:30 ▸ > ...It was more like a barn. It was a pretty large structure. We were called to Cromwell to assist with our drone for downed parachutists. We went to Olmo Street and South Fire for a structured fire. And then over, not this past weekend, the weekend before, Meriden for a three-alarm fire from a lightning strike....

2023-08-21 -- Public Safety Commission

Public Safety Commission Meeting August 21, 2023 - Fire (topics: drone)

drone Watch ▸ jump to 5:45 ▸ > ...Since the past month, we had the International Association of Firefighters Hazmat Group come in and do LNG training for us. And then they finished up extrication training on vehicles. And our drone pilots continue to train each week. Old business? Sure....

2023-07-17 -- Public Safety Commission

Public Safety Commission Meeting July 17, 2023 - Fire (topics: drone)

drone Watch ▸ jump to 2:20 ▸ > ...I'll get to in a second. But in Glastonbury, they had a dock break, two docks break free, one with nine boats, one with two boats. As we were leaving work, the Coast Guard and DEEP reached out to us to see if we could fly the drone. And we kind of, Deputy Chief was able to get it in the air. And we kind of watched the mayhem come down the river from Cromwell into Middletown....
drone Watch ▸ jump to 4:44 ▸ > ...So it was just, was what it was. Yeah. The next morning, Public Works asked us to come down and map, take the drone and map, looking at Harbor Park from north down to like the emergency services dock, map the flooding so that when the water recedes, we can remap it and then get a good handle on what, what our rise of the river is here....
drone Watch ▸ jump to 5:54 ▸ > ...I mean, I'm not mapping it, but we'll be measuring it. Yeah, we'll watch, I'll measure it from now on to make sure we know what it's going to do next time. I'll get to the, I'll get to the drone in a second. Let's see. I think that was it for that....
drone Watch ▸ jump to 8:58 ▸ > ...For training, past month they did vehicle rescue and stabilization. Two weeks of that of the city yard. There's been multiple sessions of drone training with all the pilots. Marine operations team, before the flooding, was on the river doing some of their summer training. Monthly EMS training....
drone Watch ▸ jump to 12:24 ▸ > ...Torque box for the ladder. So it's moving along. We've used drone extensively in the past couple weeks. Today we signed a formal MOU with the union. On that, in that MOU, right now we have four unionized drone, members of the union are drone pilots....
drone Watch ▸ jump to 12:33 ▸ > ...We've used drone extensively in the past couple weeks. Today we signed a formal MOU with the union. On that, in that MOU, right now we have four unionized drone, members of the union are drone pilots. We're going to send four more short term and then two more next year. So the team will have a total of 10 FAA certified pilots probably within a year....
drone Watch ▸ jump to 12:56 ▸ > ...We're going to send four more short term and then two more next year. So the team will have a total of 10 FAA certified pilots probably within a year. Chief, are you looking to get another drone? No. We're just talking with one....
drone Watch ▸ jump to 13:27 ▸ > ...Way too big. It will never go through the doorway. But like just a DJI mini, they're about this big, that will be able to fly through something that we had to bring into a building. So you can go down the hallway. Yeah....
drone Watch ▸ jump to 19:29 ▸ > ...Uh, I haven't, but I already had a money set aside in this year's budget. So as soon as they give me the price, we'll, we'll start that project. Uh, again, we, we did the MOU on the drone that was signed today. Uh, we also came to an agreement with the union where we, uh, we're purchasing three bicycles. So we'll have a, uh, bicycle component for like the pride parade, the fireworks, where it's mu...

2023-06-26 -- Public Safety Commission

Public Safety Commission Meeting - June 26, 2023 - Fire (topics: drone)

drone Watch ▸ jump to 5:34 ▸ > ...Uh, let them take a ride up in the hundred foot tower ladder. Uh, and then, uh, what else are we doing? Uh, flew the drone. Yeah, flew the drone. Yeah....
drone Watch ▸ jump to 5:35 ▸ > ...Uh, and then, uh, what else are we doing? Uh, flew the drone. Yeah, flew the drone. Yeah. If you'd see such a good drone....
drone Watch ▸ jump to 5:37 ▸ > ...Yeah, flew the drone. Yeah. If you'd see such a good drone. So put it up bucket of towel. I used to the friends down below and see, and then, uh, came back down here and had lunch....
drone Watch ▸ jump to 26:39 ▸ > ...Nice. Uh, right. And we received our drone. Our drone is in, uh, we've used it at a couple of incidents. It was used at the fire yesterday....
drone Watch ▸ jump to 26:42 ▸ > ...Uh, right. And we received our drone. Our drone is in, uh, we've used it at a couple of incidents. It was used at the fire yesterday. Uh, deputy chief out of fluid, uh, immediately being able to tell me that the roof was compromised....

2023-02-27 -- Public Safety Commission

Public Safety Commission Meeting February 27, 2023 - Police (topics: alpr)

alpr_flock Watch ▸ jump to 21:16 ▸ > ...It just not just something. The license plate. So, the LPR is getting to data from the license plate reader. Correct. Okay....

2023-01-30 -- Public Safety Commission

Public Safety Commission Special Meeting January 30, 2023-Police (topics: drone)

drone Watch ▸ jump to 21:59 ▸ > ...Um, um, even, um, Friday night hoops at the YMCA sponsored by pal. I get up for an academic cadet program. We are, um. We also, um, fluid drone at the visual for, uh, a few Williams. Um, this was given to the mayor's office. We have, um....

2022-05-16 -- Public Safety Commission

Public Safety Commission - Police (topics: drone)

drone Watch ▸ jump to 11:43 ▸ > ...Uh, burnt, uh, in the south end of town next to river road. Uh, by, uh, blue on the having water. Um, we provided services with our drone unit. Uh, we were able to identify hot spotting. Uh, where the fire was with that, there was, uh, give, um, effective response to the firefighters to break that....
drone Watch ▸ jump to 38:36 ▸ > ...All right. Um, just, uh, so that. You already talked about the social workers in law enforcement. So, I just want to go really quick back. Um, I just had one question. Uh, Captain Lushefsky in the department asked for money for a drone and you got a chance to use it. I didn't even know you actually got it. So, how did it go? Um, so the drone first the fire, the drone was able to be used and not pu...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 38:49 ▸ > ...You already talked about the social workers in law enforcement. So, I just want to go really quick back. Um, I just had one question. Uh, Captain Lushefsky in the department asked for money for a drone and you got a chance to use it. I didn't even know you actually got it. So, how did it go? Um, so the drone first the fire, the drone was able to be used and not put people in harm's way. Right? So,...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 39:52 ▸ > ...Uh, during this incident also, I freed up. I know they see there's a house on fire. I'm not relative to this. Active incident and they were able to save 4 lives that were trapped on the 2nd floor. Um, so it just, it's. The drone is, um, a good tool. It's going to eventually be a money saver. Um, I don't know. Um, over time....
drone Watch ▸ jump to 40:14 ▸ > ...The 3D measuring is unbelievable for accidents and we just had an incident in Travis square this weekend. Shooting Travis square this weekend. They're able to use the drone to. To do measurements and those in scale the event. So, it's well worth it....

2022-03-24 -- Public Safety Commission

Public Safety Commission - Fire (topics: drone)

drone Watch ▸ jump to 20:17 ▸ > ...Uh, the, the, the Middletown high school has a. Aviation class, which invited us to go out and take ourselves and PD were out last week to take a look at. We have a drone certification class. I know the police department already has. Certified drone operators. Uh, so we're a little behind on that. So we're going to, they were looking for some participation from the fire department....
drone Watch ▸ jump to 20:21 ▸ > ...Aviation class, which invited us to go out and take ourselves and PD were out last week to take a look at. We have a drone certification class. I know the police department already has. Certified drone operators. Uh, so we're a little behind on that. So we're going to, they were looking for some participation from the fire department. So they're going to put some of our personnel into their summer...

2022-02-28 -- Public Safety Commission

Public Safety Commission - Police (topics: body_camera)

body_camera Watch ▸ jump to 10:05 ▸ > ...Um, so we have submitted our budgets, like all the city departments. I'm not going to go into details into numbers, but just want to advise you on the structure of the budget that we prepared here at the middle of the police department. Um, and I'm involving, um, the CIT program, especially the explorers. How and on there should be, uh, the body worn camera project. Um, I apologize. That was not o...

2021-07-19 -- Public Safety Commission

Public Safety Commission - Police (topics: drone)

drone Watch ▸ jump to 30:24 ▸ > ...Thank you councilwoman. Uh, right if there's no other, uh, no other comments or questions, we'll move on to the next. Item, which is donations revenue line for drone program. Thank you. Thank you, Sergeant Porter. I'm going to defer and let captain speak on this. This is his. Thank you everyone. Good night....
drone Watch ▸ jump to 30:46 ▸ > ...Uh, good evening, everyone. Can you hear me? Yes, we can. Um, I'm coming to the committee to, um, in my first step to, I would like to create a, um, a revenue line for donations for a drone program for the Middletown Police Department. Uh, I obviously have to come through the public safety commission prior to going to finance and government and ultimately a grant confirmation with, um, uh, common ...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 31:14 ▸ > ...Um, I'm coming to the committee to, um, in my first step to, I would like to create a, um, a revenue line for donations for a drone program for the Middletown Police Department. Uh, I obviously have to come through the public safety commission prior to going to finance and government and ultimately a grant confirmation with, um, uh, common council. So, uh, basically what we are doing now is we are...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 31:50 ▸ > ...Uh. Um. Uh, give me or give the commission just a little bit of a background on what we, what we need or would be using this drone program for. Absolutely. The first and foremost, the drone program would be for a search and rescue....
drone Watch ▸ jump to 32:00 ▸ > ...Uh, give me or give the commission just a little bit of a background on what we, what we need or would be using this drone program for. Absolutely. The first and foremost, the drone program would be for a search and rescue. Um. We would use the, uh, drone for incidents when we have the dumpers on the bridge, missing persons....
drone Watch ▸ jump to 32:07 ▸ > ...The first and foremost, the drone program would be for a search and rescue. Um. We would use the, uh, drone for incidents when we have the dumpers on the bridge, missing persons. They walk off into a field or an area where we could save man power, man power, um, man hours where we can just send a drone up to look for these, uh, people or individuals, especially when we get the jumpers that go into...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 32:15 ▸ > ...Um. We would use the, uh, drone for incidents when we have the dumpers on the bridge, missing persons. They walk off into a field or an area where we could save man power, man power, um, man hours where we can just send a drone up to look for these, uh, people or individuals, especially when we get the jumpers that go into the water. It's, it would be a lot easier because a lot of times it takes a...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 32:34 ▸ > ...They walk off into a field or an area where we could save man power, man power, um, man hours where we can just send a drone up to look for these, uh, people or individuals, especially when we get the jumpers that go into the water. It's, it would be a lot easier because a lot of times it takes a little time to get a boat on the water. If we have the drone, it's a lot easier to, um, locate, especi...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 33:30 ▸ > ...I'm not a hundred percent on the training. I know there's some F FAA training involved. Um, some drone training involved. So it basically in the beginning stages, there would be, uh, 2 operators or 2 pilots, if you will. Um, assigned to a drone until, you know, we get it up and running and, and actually tweet the program....
drone Watch ▸ jump to 33:38 ▸ > ...Um, some drone training involved. So it basically in the beginning stages, there would be, uh, 2 operators or 2 pilots, if you will. Um, assigned to a drone until, you know, we get it up and running and, and actually tweet the program. Okay. Okay, and so we, when we say, uh, so donations would be a part of it and then the revenue would obviously it would be a part of....
drone Watch ▸ jump to 34:07 ▸ > ...Okay, and so we, when we say, uh, so donations would be a part of it and then the revenue would obviously it would be a part of. Well, help me understand this. So we start the revenue line, but is this going to be supported through donations consistently? Or just just this 1 time to get it started? Uh, it would probably be the initial upfront cost to get it started, the actual purchase of the brok...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 34:47 ▸ > ...Um, after that, it would be, um, just the maintenance costs and I'm not sure how much in training, but it's really not as significant as the upfront cost. Okay, any idea how much or. I believe I don't have them in front of me. Go figure. I believe 1 of them was in the area of 38,000 was for, I believe the drone was in there. Some of the training and some of the maintenance. Well, that is for the f...
drone Watch ▸ jump to 37:18 ▸ > ...We do. I do that then. All right. Motion on the table by Councilman Salafi to accept donations and create a revenue line to accept those donations for a drone program. I have a 2nd. I'll 2nd constant manager if you go....

2020-09-21 -- Public Safety Commission

Public Safety Commission - Police (topics: body_camera)

body_camera Watch ▸ jump to 20:01 ▸ > ...The quote quotes that you put forth are just for the body cams. I wasn't aware that and I'm still not certain if the law stated cruiser cam as well. That is not in the quote that I gave you. That's just pure body cam. Yes, correct. The law currently does state does state both body and cruiser cams....
body_camera Watch ▸ jump to 20:23 ▸ > ...Again, we're hoping. Fingers crossed that they'll see that cruiser cams are pretty much. You know, obsolete if everybody has a body cam. So it's kind of redundant and an extra cost. But if they insist, then, yes, we'll have to abide by that and have cruiser cams as well....

2020-08-17 -- Public Safety Commission

Public Safety Commission - Police (topics: body_camera)

body_camera Watch ▸ jump to 7:49 ▸ > ...No, I have any questions. No questions. So, I just want to move on and answer, uh, Councilman manager Fico's question regarding, uh, uh, body cam costs. Um, so Captain was ski is on vacation, so he's not here to answer any questions about this, but. I can tell you that, um, so 1 of the companies that is very prominent in this and is the leader, um, in the body cams and supplying body cams for poli...
body_camera Watch ▸ jump to 11:57 ▸ > ...Those are depending on who you talk to those are a little more, they're a little more accurate because wherever the officer turns his head and looks is what's captured on the video with the, with the 1 more on the chest, which is what most departments have right now. That's if the body could be facing 1 way and if the head is turned to the left and the body's facing to the right, you're actually n...

2020-07-20 -- Public Safety Commission

Public Safety Commission - Police (topics: body_camera)

body_camera Watch ▸ jump to 1:47:36 ▸ > ...And I think it's 59 or 63 departments. I don't think there's 1 that posts their every policy on, on the internet. So, um, that being said, we're open to discussion on that. You know, there's people that feel otherwise, but if someone requested a policy, it would get sent to them. I mean, quicker than you would get something in the mail. So it would be sent by email. Um, no problem. There's nothing...
body_camera Watch ▸ jump to 1:49:16 ▸ > ...And just from reviewing the video, they were able to exonerate the officer very quickly because the video, the proof is in the video that it didn't happen or the way the person was saying. So that being said, the numbers were like 80-20. But anyway, then the officer started asking for him. And then at that point, the ACLU kind of came out and said, well, that's great. You could have them. But when...

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[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...Mr. and Mrs. Reed. Hi, this is Mads Reed again, [address redacted]. Having heard the response by flock via the city attorney, I just want to go on record. I'm not comforted by any of what was said. I do not believe the sales pitch from the tech companies, the reassurance of our privacy and our data.... Watch ▸ jump to 1:33:08 ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...They refuse to... Let somebody look at it. They have security researchers look at it. Specifically, I should say the flock cameras. I don't know about the drone, but they're, yeah, same jurisdiction. I just want to make sure.... Watch ▸ jump to 1:32:20 ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...security agency basically look at the drone and make sure it's not talking to anything else, like communicating to other servers or talking to other agencies. And as far as I know, I'm not an expert in the specific instance, but flock has refused to do that. They refuse to... Let somebody look at it.... Watch ▸ jump to 1:32:09 ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...compile the code and put that code in the drone itself, you won't truly know what that drone is doing. And on top of that, there's alternatives to that, like having the code reviewed by third-party privacy companies. And as far as I know, flock has refused to do that. So again, there is no safety guarantees or even enforceability guarantees with this drone. Thank you. Thank you. Could you just repeat that last part? You kind of lost me there.... Watch ▸ jump to 1:31:16 ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...Thank you, Brendan. Is there anyone else from the public? Hello again. Anson Melek, [address redacted]. Again, kind of on the software front of things, I have issues with even if we strike up some deal, some agreement with flock that it'll be enforceable. This is kind of the central grift with software companies is just like the hyperlink that the presenter mentioned before where they can change the deal at any time. Unless you view the code,... Watch ▸ jump to 1:30:44 ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...like to see some more guarantees that the data being collected here is not, in fact, going to be shared with with national immigration enforcement or with other law enforcement organizations around the country. And unfortunately, given flock's track record, I really don't believe that the current stipulations outlined in the contract would be sufficient in providing that. Thank you. Thank you, Brendan. Is there anyone else from the public?... Watch ▸ jump to 1:30:16 ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...city in Wisconsin that had to cancel their contract with flock because the organization, the corporation violated that stipulation of the contract. That was supposed to keep the data in the hands of the local city government. The LAPD also recently canceled their contract with flock as has Cambridge and many other cities across the country. And so I do really wonder, you know, to what extent are we actually protecting Middletown's residents, or are we just giving license to a corporation to surveil our daily... Watch ▸ jump to 1:29:24 ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...shared with DHS and with other law enforcement organizations, both nationally and on the municipal level across the country. Even when that ran against the contracts that were signed, there was a city in Wisconsin that had to cancel their contract with flock because the organization, the corporation violated that stipulation of the contract. That was supposed to keep the data in the hands of the local city government. The LAPD also recently canceled their contract with flock as has Cambridge and many... Watch ▸ jump to 1:29:12 ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...taking the time to be here today in regards to the presentation and discussion on the flock drones. I have, I myself have concerns over whether or not the data collected on these drones will, in fact, remain middle towns. There have been many instances where flock drone data has been legally or illegally shared with DHS and with other law enforcement organizations, both nationally and on the municipal level across the country. Even when that ran against the contracts that were signed, there was a... Watch ▸ jump to 1:28:52 ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...Hello, everybody. My name is Brendan Berry, and I am a student at Wesleyan University. My address at Wesleyan is [address redacted] I would like to, first of all, thank, uh, chief Albert and chief Costa for taking the time to be here today in regards to the presentation and discussion on the flock drones. I have, I myself have concerns over whether or not the data collected on these drones will, in fact, remain middle towns. There have been many instances where flock drone data has been legally or illegally... Watch ▸ jump to 1:28:40 ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...My name is Paris Pollack, uh, [address redacted]. I just like to submit two questions for the record. Um, I would like, uh, to see more clarification on the differences between the drones that we already have and the drones that flock can deploy and approximately how much time we're saving. And I'd also like to ask ask how this type of drone system will prevent people from jumping off the bridge and what we can do to stop that from happening. And that's all I have to say. Thanks.... Watch ▸ jump to 1:25:54 ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...based on public concern has taken another look and amended said master agreement and recommends that it be, uh, sent to council as amended. So a motion to approve that that revised agreement, master agreement for the flock drone system be presented to council. Okay. So we would need a motion for people to recommend that we're going to send it to the council. I'll make that motion. We send it back, revise that addressing all the concerns to... Watch ▸ jump to 1:22:50 ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...board. Um, I know how important these things are to the city. Okay. Thank you, Chief. Uh, any other questions for customer, Chief Albert? Regarding flock drone agreement? Okay. Uh, did we need to vote on this moving to, um, GCC? Uh, because it's a new agreement now, correct? I believe it doesn't require. Oh, I'm sorry. It doesn't have to go to GCC. Um,... Watch ▸ jump to 1:19:11 ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...would be there to help dictate where they would then operate. Is that what I'm hearing? The people at the front desk will be trained on every shift will be somebody trained to be able to run the operation of the flock on every, every scheduled day of, uh, of the patrol division in that front desk area. Right. I, I, I understand that, but we already have drone operators now, correct?... Watch ▸ jump to 1:15:21 ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...resources when it comes to our Marine unit. It wasn't truthful chief. I have one more. Um, we have drone rescue operators now, the AI flock system. And just again, just for clarification, this would be deployed from, um, a specific location and be there before our drone operators would be there to help dictate where they would then operate. Is that what I'm hearing?... Watch ▸ jump to 1:14:58 ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...them wherever it takes them. And that current changes from minute to minute. It can, it won't be the same current when we get there in five minutes from our response. And then obviously, yes, for structure fires, uh, there's a fire anywhere throughout the city. If that flock can get up really quick, a dispatcher can see someone at the desk or someone in my department sees it. It's only going to better help us with our resources and to allocate them appropriately. So. Okay. Um, so I pose this to the... Watch ▸ jump to 1:07:47 ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...underlined, Flock does not own and shall not sell customer data. Again, that's the important stuff. So the customer will use Flock services, Flock hardware, and Flock software in a drone as first responder, DFR capacity, and not in a license plate reader LPR capacity. So I can let the chief speak to sort of operationally what that means. But what it should mean is that this is intended for life, health, safety, emergency situations that is not intended, will not be used for... Watch ▸ jump to 59:25 ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...And again, I want to thank Flock safety for their responsiveness to this. But this language underlined, Flock does not own and shall not sell customer data. Again, that's the important stuff. So the customer will use Flock services, Flock hardware, and Flock software in a drone as first responder, DFR capacity, and not in a license plate reader LPR capacity. So I can let the chief speak to sort of operationally what that means. But what it should mean is that this is intended for... Watch ▸ jump to 59:18 ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...And then at the very bottom, this language is, I will tell you, this language is unique to Middletown. And again, I want to thank Flock safety for their responsiveness to this. But this language underlined, Flock does not own and shall not sell customer data. Again, that's the important stuff. So the customer will use Flock services, Flock hardware, and Flock software in a drone as first responder, DFR capacity, and not in a license plate reader LPR capacity. So I can let the chief... Watch ▸ jump to 59:13 ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...that is completely up to us as the customer to determine whether and how they receive any such data. And then at the very bottom, this language is, I will tell you, this language is unique to Middletown. And again, I want to thank Flock safety for their responsiveness to this. But this language underlined, Flock does not own and shall not sell customer data. Again, that's the important stuff. So the customer will use Flock services, Flock hardware, and Flock software in a drone as first... Watch ▸ jump to 59:05 ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...belongs to us and is shared only in the following respects. One is to the sub-processors to provide the Flock services. Two is to support and improve Flock products and services. For avoidance of doubt. And this is why I think one of the most important things we've heard is using this technology in support of enforcement actions by ICE. That was one of the big concerns... Watch ▸ jump to 58:17 ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...audio and or video and the metadata associated there with. So all that stuff that is most sensitive belongs to us and is shared only in the following respects. One is to the sub-processors to provide the Flock services. Two is to support and improve Flock products and services. For avoidance of doubt. And this is why I think one of the most important things we've heard is... Watch ▸ jump to 58:11 ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...you are going to have obviously access to our customer data, which is the stuff that's sort of sensitive. You go back to the first page of the agreement, customer data is defined as all data and information captured by Flock hardware on behalf of customer through the Flock services. So images, audio and or video and the metadata associated there with. So all that stuff that is most sensitive belongs to us and is shared only in the following respects. One is to the... Watch ▸ jump to 57:51 ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...Customer hereby grants to Flock a limited, non-exclusive, royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual world license to a, using disclosed customer data solely to Flock sub-processors to provide the Flock services. What that means is we said, listen, you are going to have obviously access to our customer data, which is the stuff that's sort of sensitive. You go back to the first page of the agreement, customer data is defined as all data... Watch ▸ jump to 57:35 ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...all right title and interest in and to customer data belong to and are retained by customer. Customer hereby grants to Flock a limited, non-exclusive, royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual world license to a, using disclosed customer data solely to Flock sub-processors to provide the Flock services. What that means is we said, listen, you are going to have obviously access to our customer data, which is the stuff that's sort of... Watch ▸ jump to 57:28 ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...So one of the most important protections for the city is customer data as between Flock and customer, all right title and interest in and to customer data belong to and are retained by customer. Customer hereby grants to Flock a limited, non-exclusive, royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual world license to a, using disclosed customer data solely to Flock sub-processors to provide the Flock services. What that means is we said, listen,... Watch ▸ jump to 57:23 ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...So if you go to, and I'll give you a minute or two to flip to it, but section 4.1.1, customer data. I'll give you just a minute. So one of the most important protections for the city is customer data as between Flock and customer, all right title and interest in and to customer data belong to and are retained by customer. Customer hereby grants to Flock a limited, non-exclusive, royalty-free, irrevocable,... Watch ▸ jump to 57:09 ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...and one that better spells out what the technology is going to be used for and what its limitations are. So what I want to highlight at the very beginning is that the technology is not going to be used as a license plate reader. So if you go to, and I'll give you a minute or two to flip to it, but section 4.1.1, customer data. I'll give you just a minute.... Watch ▸ jump to 56:44 ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...And I do want to say, cause I was online and I was able to hear some of the public comments. And those are exactly the comments that we were trying to. Be sensitive to in talking with Flock safety about providing us a more comprehensive agreement and one that better spells out what the technology is going to be used for and what its limitations are. So what I want to highlight at the very beginning is that the technology is not... Watch ▸ jump to 56:23 ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...more specific. So we endeavored to do just that. And we spent, um, you know, months working with Flock safety on that. And so what you have now in front of you, this master services agreement, you'll notice is a much more substantial document than the, uh, boilerplate contract.... Watch ▸ jump to 55:43 ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...And I said, well, let me look at it. And, uh, and I think the council member and the public made some good points. And so we said, let's talk to Flock safety about seeing if we can't make the agreement more specific. So we endeavored to do just that.... Watch ▸ jump to 55:32 ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...and there's some concerns about whether the representations that we're seeing in chief cost is letter to the community. And then the, the statement from Flock safety's CEO are fairly encompassed within this agreement. And I said, well, let me look at it. And, uh, and I think the council member and the public made some good points.... Watch ▸ jump to 55:20 ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...the $50,000 per year contract. Quote, and that Mayor Eugene Nassar is authorized to send, sign any and all documents for this Flock safety drone as first responder DFR program, subject to review and approval as to content informed by the office of the general council. Um, and then if you look attached to that resolution, you will see, uh, what was then sort of their... Watch ▸ jump to 54:54 ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...chief um at the table there so we can see you on webex state your name address you have five minutes to speak to any agenda item yep councilman i have a letter that was sent via linda reed um is this the time that it's it's about public comment in regards to the flock cameras should i read that into the record that that's what the request of the sender is we normally do this at the end of public comment chief so if you go to the end okay no thank you i'll take your guidance on it thank you... Watch ▸ jump to 0:45 ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...right we don't have any visibility on what code it's running on the machine um and then just to give context i wanted to read out i'm sure this will be reviewed later um but i wanted to just give context to read out that from the flock drone site itself um this response 9-1-1 9-1-1 calls license plate reader hits gun gunshot detection it shares live video life thermal video night vision video um to uh they list stakeholders here... Watch ▸ jump to 5:48 ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...Um, extremely excited about that. And again, um, all the credos go to those that wear the shield and wear the patch of the city of Middletown and its police department. So I'm extremely proud of that as well. Um, if there's no questions, I'll move on to flock, uh, drone agreement. Um, and that will be, I believe Briggs on this call. If, uh, you want to bring Briggs up, he'll be presenting this topic for the commission.... Watch ▸ jump to 50:01 ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Fire July 2026

...Is there anyone who would like to speak tonight? On the fire? Through the through the chair, I just like to acknowledge that this public hearing is for the fire department agenda. So for anybody here to speak about the flock drones, you want to wait until the police portion of the agenda. I recognize some folks, but thank you for coming. Is there anyone else here who would like to speak on matters on the fire agenda?... Watch ▸ jump to 1:00 ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...which is currently violating our constitutional rights to privacy we are asking anyone with the ability to please intervene and do not allow the trial of these devices to be extended in middletown and we would also ask that the removal of any existing flock or similar alpr products currently in use of middletown be duly considered thank you thank you mr reed is there anyone else from the public who wishes to speak at this time yeah hand up frank... Watch ▸ jump to 17:20 ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...this car it's its own car um and so unfortunately um uh uh uh counselors um this is just a a situation where we're living in a time where you know the the tech uh industries you know are are heavily unregulated these these issues come up over and over again for flock they come up over and over again for you know meta or they come over and over again for google errors that are uh attributed to ai or most recent technologies and i just like to encourage you to um to uh not move ahead with the flock uh drone... Watch ▸ jump to 4:16 ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...that we skimmed through and clicked accept to we have no means to opt out of this service other than appealing to our local representatives to protect our privacy we have seen many cities and towns including some here in connecticut have now reversed course on alpr our technologies canceling contracts and removing installed devices due to the privacy concerns of their citizens we believe that this is a trend that will continue and grow as more residents learn of the privacy issues associated with this technology... Watch ▸ jump to 16:05 ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...recent technologies and i just like to encourage you to um to uh not move ahead with the flock uh drone because you know no matter what form the flock technology takes it is feeding into the flock system and we know the flock system has errors and is sometimes inaccurate thank you all right thank you all right is there anyone else who would like to come up and speak uh yes hey come on up sir hello my name is anson milik uh [address redacted] um 04657 i'm an automation engineer... Watch ▸ jump to 4:40 ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...reside at [address redacted] here in middletown thank you um we as concerned citizens of middletown want to express our strong concerns for the for the privacy of the residents of middletown uh as we understand it the use of these uh automated license plate reading cameras are presented uh to the public as a tool of local law enforcement to increase public safety however they are also gathering huge amounts of data for tech firms to sell access to that data is then being fed into real-time black... Watch ▸ jump to 14:56 ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...unregulated these these issues come up over and over again for flock they come up over and over again for you know meta or they come over and over again for google errors that are uh attributed to ai or most recent technologies and i just like to encourage you to um to uh not move ahead with the flock uh drone because you know no matter what form the flock technology takes it is feeding into the flock system and we know the flock system has errors and is sometimes inaccurate thank you all right thank you... Watch ▸ jump to 4:27 ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...oh okay well look it looked like you had your hand raised apologies okay awesome all right and just note i think in the chat there was uh someone from the public his name was alex who was in support of the drone program so just noting that for the record alex jones i am in support of flock drone program as a town resident and it looks like now we have alicia reed who has raised her hand or their hand and would like to speak... Watch ▸ jump to 13:21 ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...for you know meta or they come over and over again for google errors that are uh attributed to ai or most recent technologies and i just like to encourage you to um to uh not move ahead with the flock uh drone because you know no matter what form the flock technology takes it is feeding into the flock system and we know the flock system has errors and is sometimes inaccurate thank you all right thank you all right is there anyone else who would like to come up and speak uh yes... Watch ▸ jump to 4:35 ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...officers there's been um a lot of instances of um stalking and harassment used with these cameras and um we've also been involved in hacking penetrations by predators including creators of child sex material these cameras are put on walking trails and parks um and paths they flock safety is currently facing massive scrutiny over the release of images facing a girls gymnastic studio any company that's facing this level of scrutiny and dissatisfaction from the public is not something that i want my town to be associated with... Watch ▸ jump to 8:45 ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...which means i work with robots on a daily basis um and it's generally my job to make sure that they work well and that they are um essentially doing what they're told right following the code that they're programmed and my main issue with the flock drone as well as flock itself is there's no guarantee that this flock drone will follow the programming or follow the orders of the cops we have here right we don't have any visibility on what code it's running on the machine... Watch ▸ jump to 5:27 ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...for him his car was just not the right car it was just missing two uh two numbers which would have made it identical to the car that had been stolen so fortunately the man was fine you know everything worked out in that specific situation and that local police department reached out to flock and asked is this your regular procedure um can we expect this in the future how does this work and floc's response was kind of basically well there is some there is some error on our side so this is just one... Watch ▸ jump to 3:15 ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...it shares live video life thermal video night vision video um to uh they list stakeholders here which could be anyone um essentially my big worry is without that oversight we're handing plausible deniability to flock or even our police officers here if they aren't exactly following the law um to fly a drone over our city and to spot anyone they want and i don't think that's something anyone here wants uh thank you for the time okay thank you... Watch ▸ jump to 6:17 ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...so the specific instance i'll just quickly try to summarize is a man in uh minnesota had his car pinged uh there was a car in california the fbi realized was um was a stolen car and so they put out sort of a you know like a search for it the automatic license plate reader in minnesota uh determined that this man's car uh was the exact match of this stolen car in california unfortunately for him uh you know he was out doing errands and four you know cops showed up with guns drawn um and unfortunately... Watch ▸ jump to 2:43 ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...all right so who would like to speak first hello um so my uh my legal name is james calabresi um and i live at [address redacted] middletown um 06457 and um yeah i'd like to speak about um flock so um flock as a nationwide service um uh reads 20 billion uh license plates in america every month 20 billion is a really big number it's a lot bigger than the number of americans there are but when it comes to uh their success rate uh their success rate... Watch ▸ jump to 1:19 ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...um and then just to give context i wanted to read out i'm sure this will be reviewed later um but i wanted to just give context to read out that from the flock drone site itself um this response 9-1-1 9-1-1 calls license plate reader hits gun gunshot detection it shares live video life thermal video night vision video um to uh they list stakeholders here which could be anyone um essentially my big worry is without that oversight we're handing plausible... Watch ▸ jump to 5:54 ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...well and that they are um essentially doing what they're told right following the code that they're programmed and my main issue with the flock drone as well as flock itself is there's no guarantee that this flock drone will follow the programming or follow the orders of the cops we have here right we don't have any visibility on what code it's running on the machine um and then just to give context i wanted to read out i'm sure this will be reviewed later... Watch ▸ jump to 5:32 ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...four documents. One ought to be a letter from Chief Costa of the community. One ought to be a sort of a one pager from Flock Safety's CEO about their technology. One ought to be the resolution that council passed back in January of 2026. And then one ought to be the proposed master services agreement.... Watch ▸ jump to 53:55 ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
[2026-03-05] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police March 5th 2026

...more than happy to answer but if not i can move on to our new business i don't need any hands chief our new business first and foremost i know last um common council meeting on monday we've dealt with flock dfr program which is our drone program i know the project was um tabled for next month as um general council will be dealing with working with flock um council to um put in provisions that are stronger in language so um the data is um protected um in a layman's term... Watch ▸ jump to 22:11 ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
[2026-03-05] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police March 5th 2026

...to do that either and here in connecticut yeah but nonetheless i do understand and um i can only tell you what i know about the project thank you chief thank you uh keep just to give a little bit more context um and just looking up you know flock and since they are you know part of many drone companies that have uh that are in the business of you know providing services not only to government but to municipalities there was an article that did refer to them working with the government at one time... Watch ▸ jump to 28:08 ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
[2026-03-05] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police March 5th 2026

...i don't need any hands chief our new business first and foremost i know last um common council meeting on monday we've dealt with flock dfr program which is our drone program i know the project was um tabled for next month as um general council will be dealing with working with flock um council to um put in provisions that are stronger in language so um the data is um protected um in a layman's term in that project there is no data to be protected because only is imagery and that imagery usually... Watch ▸ jump to 22:20 ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
[2026-03-05] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police March 5th 2026

...yeah definitely well i really wanted to add more of a statement than a question um as a reassurance to the to the group and to to anyone that you know comes across the recording is that um in digesting the the public's feedback is that i had reached out to both chiefs and asked if we took the the flock drones out of the mix how do our other drones compare what do we have for data collection with those how are those policies managed what manufacturer are they and i had that information within minutes um i was... Watch ▸ jump to 33:09 ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
[2026-03-05] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police March 5th 2026

...sound decisions when responding to calls because they are front-loaded with information um and knowing what they're going into um that being said um we're looking to expand our drone program at the department enhance our license plate reader technology we are not a flock lpr city we don't we're not with flock we are with recor and odonai which is um only a clue what they call closed loop we own all of our data our data doesn't go to a third party we have we have the rights on our data so we don't have to go into... Watch ▸ jump to 17:07 ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
[2026-03-05] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police March 5th 2026

...and the use of those drones and the services is meant to provide exactly that safety and information driven to provide increased levels and enhance the safety for our first responders and for the individuals who need that response so at no point in time flock was going to have any backdoor or back-ended way in which to take or record any data or information and then utilize that or sell that off or provide it to any other fourth or third party entity that's correct and then general counsel is... Watch ▸ jump to 29:00 ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
[2026-03-05] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police March 5th 2026

...vendors that have come out that we had looked at um and they weren't to the standards that we were looking for the maintenance the care um and obviously we don't want to be paying um fees that we didn't think were necessary and um that's why flock is the national leader in that um but the drone doesn't collect data where they could share with others uh just just one other question um you know barring you know major incidences and let's just say you know it does help us respond and we like it after a year is... Watch ▸ jump to 30:09 ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
[2023-02-27] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Meeting February 27, 2023 - Police

...It just not just something. The license plate. So, the LPR is getting to data from the license plate reader. Correct. Okay.... Watch ▸ jump to 21:16 ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)

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[2024-03-18] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Meeting - Police, March 18, 2024

...contractual obligations but things like that we don't think about like police cars everyone thinks about a police officer just driving a police car it spends gas it puts lights on it has a siren but the equipment in there is mandated you have to have a body-worn camera system that's in there that has a hot spot modems in that car um our next-gen systems and dmv systems that are in there and then our mobile camera as well and they all have to be in sync that costs money so our average car... Watch ▸ jump to 18:11 ▸ (term: body_camera, unreviewed)
[2022-02-28] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission - Police

...Um, so we have submitted our budgets, like all the city departments. I'm not going to go into details into numbers, but just want to advise you on the structure of the budget that we prepared here at the middle of the police department. Um, and I'm involving, um, the CIT program, especially the explorers. How and on there should be, uh, the body worn camera project. Um, I apologize. That was not on part of the, uh, on the agenda there. I do want to speak about that tonight. Um, for us, I think, um, as we see this wrinkle effect in our agency, we'd like more consistency with having an officer w... Watch ▸ jump to 10:05 ▸ (term: body_camera, unreviewed)
[2020-09-21] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission - Police

...Again, we're hoping. Fingers crossed that they'll see that cruiser cams are pretty much. You know, obsolete if everybody has a body cam. So it's kind of redundant and an extra cost. But if they insist, then, yes, we'll have to abide by that and have cruiser cams as well.... Watch ▸ jump to 20:23 ▸ (term: body_camera, unreviewed)
[2020-09-21] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission - Police

...The quote quotes that you put forth are just for the body cams. I wasn't aware that and I'm still not certain if the law stated cruiser cam as well. That is not in the quote that I gave you. That's just pure body cam. Yes, correct. The law currently does state does state both body and cruiser cams.... Watch ▸ jump to 20:01 ▸ (term: body_camera, unreviewed)
[2020-08-17] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission - Police

...Those are depending on who you talk to those are a little more, they're a little more accurate because wherever the officer turns his head and looks is what's captured on the video with the, with the 1 more on the chest, which is what most departments have right now. That's if the body could be facing 1 way and if the head is turned to the left and the body's facing to the right, you're actually not capturing what the office are seeing. At that time, so, but I do believe it's for the standard worn on the chest body cam and it's it includes a link that when the officer gets to the station and d... Watch ▸ jump to 11:57 ▸ (term: body_camera, unreviewed)
[2020-08-17] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission - Police

...No, I have any questions. No questions. So, I just want to move on and answer, uh, Councilman manager Fico's question regarding, uh, uh, body cam costs. Um, so Captain was ski is on vacation, so he's not here to answer any questions about this, but. I can tell you that, um, so 1 of the companies that is very prominent in this and is the leader, um, in the body cams and supplying body cams for police departments in this state, especially is, uh, axon.... Watch ▸ jump to 7:49 ▸ (term: body_camera, unreviewed)
[2020-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission - Police

...And just from reviewing the video, they were able to exonerate the officer very quickly because the video, the proof is in the video that it didn't happen or the way the person was saying. So that being said, the numbers were like 80-20. But anyway, then the officer started asking for him. And then at that point, the ACLU kind of came out and said, well, that's great. You could have them. But when you got to come into that domestic, you got to shut them off because that's an invasion of privacy. And that kind of defeats the whole purpose of having the body cam. So there's been a debate back an... Watch ▸ jump to 1:49:16 ▸ (term: body_camera, unreviewed)
[2020-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission - Police

...And I think it's 59 or 63 departments. I don't think there's 1 that posts their every policy on, on the internet. So, um, that being said, we're open to discussion on that. You know, there's people that feel otherwise, but if someone requested a policy, it would get sent to them. I mean, quicker than you would get something in the mail. So it would be sent by email. Um, no problem. There's nothing to hide. There's nothing to hide here. We're an open book and you walk them. Um, the public's comments and, uh, and their thoughts because we're here. Okay. Thank you, chief. And I have one more ques... Watch ▸ jump to 1:47:36 ▸ (term: body_camera, unreviewed)

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drone¶

[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...Let somebody look at it. They have security researchers look at it. Specifically, I should say the flock cameras. I don't know about the drone, but they're, yeah, same jurisdiction. I just want to make sure. No, yeah. No, thank you so much. Thanks for your time, everyone.... Watch ▸ jump to 1:32:23 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...know, we already have drones. We already have the, uh, the, the capability to man those drones, you know, $50,000, even just in one year is a lot of money. Um, what if we spent $2,000 training someone and maybe buying parts for a drone, or what if we spent $3,000 buying a new drone that's, you know, fit for the winds of the milltown river. Um, and we also paid to train, you know, more of the officers. I just personally am worried that we're spending a lot of money up front after... Watch ▸ jump to 1:27:09 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...concerned citizen about the, you know, use of, uh, funds. I also care about the, um, the safety of, of everybody involved. And I do hope that people can be saved from the river, saved from suicide attempts in the future. I just think that, uh, you know, drone wise, why don't we just train in house? Why are we, uh, you know, contracting out. That's fine. Thank you. Anyone else from the public who wishes to speak at this time online? We got Brendan from online. Okay.... Watch ▸ jump to 1:27:58 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...taking the time to be here today in regards to the presentation and discussion on the flock drones. I have, I myself have concerns over whether or not the data collected on these drones will, in fact, remain middle towns. There have been many instances where flock drone data has been legally or illegally shared with DHS and with other law enforcement organizations, both nationally and on the municipal level across the country. Even when that ran against the contracts that were signed, there was a... Watch ▸ jump to 1:28:52 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...This is kind of the central grift with software companies is just like the hyperlink that the presenter mentioned before where they can change the deal at any time. Unless you view the code, compile the code and put that code in the drone itself, you won't truly know what that drone is doing. And on top of that, there's alternatives to that, like having the code reviewed by third-party privacy companies. And as far as I know, flock has refused to do that. So again, there is no safety... Watch ▸ jump to 1:31:02 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...And on top of that, there's alternatives to that, like having the code reviewed by third-party privacy companies. And as far as I know, flock has refused to do that. So again, there is no safety guarantees or even enforceability guarantees with this drone. Thank you. Thank you. Could you just repeat that last part? You kind of lost me there. Cool. Yeah. Which part?... Watch ▸ jump to 1:31:22 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...You know, pass that. You said enforceability, hyperlink, view code, and then compliance code. So basically, if you're unable to view the code that's been compiled, you can have a third-party security agency basically look at the drone and make sure it's not talking to anything else, like communicating to other servers or talking to other agencies. And as far as I know, I'm not an expert in the specific instance, but flock has refused to do that.... Watch ▸ jump to 1:31:55 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...record. Um, I would like, uh, to see more clarification on the differences between the drones that we already have and the drones that flock can deploy and approximately how much time we're saving. And I'd also like to ask ask how this type of drone system will prevent people from jumping off the bridge and what we can do to stop that from happening. And that's all I have to say. Thanks. Is there anyone else from the public who wishes to speak?... Watch ▸ jump to 1:26:06 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...based on public concern has taken another look and amended said master agreement and recommends that it be, uh, sent to council as amended. So a motion to approve that that revised agreement, master agreement for the flock drone system be presented to council. Okay. So we would need a motion for people to recommend that we're going to send it to the council. I'll make that motion. We send it back, revise that addressing all the concerns to... Watch ▸ jump to 1:22:50 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...board. Um, I know how important these things are to the city. Okay. Thank you, Chief. Uh, any other questions for customer, Chief Albert? Regarding flock drone agreement? Okay. Uh, did we need to vote on this moving to, um, GCC? Uh, because it's a new agreement now, correct? I believe it doesn't require. Oh, I'm sorry. It doesn't have to go to GCC. Um,... Watch ▸ jump to 1:19:11 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...And I can also give you an example as well as that from time to time, we have many calls of service where there's a large fight. People call it. There's 50 people fighting in the middle of the street. This drone would be a first responder. Actually, it's only two people fighting in the street with people just watching. So that, that changes our response as a police department. When you have a large fight of 50 people, you're asking for all units to, to, to respond when... Watch ▸ jump to 1:16:48 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...operator working, it could be still a five to 10 minute, um, deployment from time around scene, or there could be days I don't have a drone operator working and I'll have to call someone from home. That's when we would ask PD to come help. And then vice versa, PD didn't have a drone operator working. They would ask us if we had one. So there is a delay with the man operated drones. And I can also give you an example as well as that from time to time, we have many calls of service... Watch ▸ jump to 1:16:27 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...get on scene, we have to get drone operators and then deploy it. So it could be, if I have a drone operator working, it could be still a five to 10 minute, um, deployment from time around scene, or there could be days I don't have a drone operator working and I'll have to call someone from home. That's when we would ask PD to come help. And then vice versa, PD didn't have a drone operator working. They would ask us if we had one. So there is a delay with the man operated drones.... Watch ▸ jump to 1:16:22 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...in, uh, okay. Accordance with the, with the larger drone, um, that drone would essentially probably beat the first units on scene. That's what I mean. So like with my drone, we have to get on scene, we have to get drone operators and then deploy it. So it could be, if I have a drone operator working, it could be still a five to 10 minute, um, deployment from time around scene, or there could be days I don't have a drone operator working and I'll have to call someone from home.... Watch ▸ jump to 1:16:11 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...Absolutely. If we have to go to do further searches or whatever else we, I'm sure we could work in, uh, okay. Accordance with the, with the larger drone, um, that drone would essentially probably beat the first units on scene. That's what I mean. So like with my drone, we have to get on scene, we have to get drone operators and then deploy it. So it could be, if I have a drone operator working, it could be still a five to 10 minute, um, deployment from time around scene,... Watch ▸ jump to 1:16:07 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...actual other drone operators get to the actual location. Absolutely. If we have to go to do further searches or whatever else we, I'm sure we could work in, uh, okay. Accordance with the, with the larger drone, um, that drone would essentially probably beat the first units on scene. That's what I mean. So like with my drone, we have to get on scene, we have to get drone operators and then deploy it. So it could be, if I have a drone... Watch ▸ jump to 1:15:59 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...Right. That's what I mean. I, I just wanted to clarify. So I'm, I'm understanding that. So from the front desk, we could send someone, we could send the drone to that area before our actual other drone operators get to the actual location. Absolutely. If we have to go to do further searches or whatever else we, I'm sure we could work in, uh, okay. Accordance with the, with the larger drone, um, that drone would essentially... Watch ▸ jump to 1:15:49 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...We do. And we have a different style of drone. Right. That's what I mean. I, I just wanted to clarify. So I'm, I'm understanding that. So from the front desk, we could send someone, we could send the drone to that area before our actual other drone operators get to the actual location. Absolutely. If we have to go to do further searches or whatever else we, I'm sure we could work... Watch ▸ jump to 1:15:43 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...of, uh, of the patrol division in that front desk area. Right. I, I, I understand that, but we already have drone operators now, correct? We do. And we have a different style of drone. Right. That's what I mean. I, I just wanted to clarify. So I'm, I'm understanding that. So from the front desk, we could send someone, we could send the drone to that area before our... Watch ▸ jump to 1:15:35 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...trained to be able to run the operation of the flock on every, every scheduled day of, uh, of the patrol division in that front desk area. Right. I, I, I understand that, but we already have drone operators now, correct? We do. And we have a different style of drone. Right. That's what I mean. I, I just wanted to clarify. So I'm, I'm understanding that. So... Watch ▸ jump to 1:15:30 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...It wasn't truthful chief. I have one more. Um, we have drone rescue operators now, the AI flock system. And just again, just for clarification, this would be deployed from, um, a specific location and be there before our drone operators would be there to help dictate where they would then operate. Is that what I'm hearing? The people at the front desk will be trained on every shift will be somebody... Watch ▸ jump to 1:15:07 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...resources when it comes to our Marine unit. It wasn't truthful chief. I have one more. Um, we have drone rescue operators now, the AI flock system. And just again, just for clarification, this would be deployed from, um, a specific location and be there before our drone operators would be there to help dictate where they would then operate. Is that what I'm hearing?... Watch ▸ jump to 1:14:58 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...positions as well. Like again, they get eyes on a location, uh, greater than a normal site. Um, so, um, those are the importance of that drone program. So if those drone operators cannot efficiently run the drone, um, with that precision, um, I don't think that would be, uh, good for our city either, but I don't think that's going to be the case. I think, um, the technology is where it needs to be, uh, for this to be a very successful program, um, especially where it's located. It's, it's covering... Watch ▸ jump to 1:14:11 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...Um, those type of drones, um, put our officers in safe positions. Don't put our dog teams in bad positions as well. Like again, they get eyes on a location, uh, greater than a normal site. Um, so, um, those are the importance of that drone program. So if those drone operators cannot efficiently run the drone, um, with that precision, um, I don't think that would be, uh, good for our city either, but I don't think that's going to be the case. I think, um, the technology is where it needs to be,... Watch ▸ jump to 1:14:06 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...we probably wouldn't continue the, continue the program. Um, that would probably be the number one reason why we wouldn't do it. Um, secondly, uh, our capabilities, we want to make sure that we're efficient. Right now, we have a number of drone operators in the agency that, for our criminal drones, um, search and rescue drones, um, that we use, uh, for major incidences. Um, most recently we had, um, obviously an active shooter on the west side of the city, uh, at the beginning of the month of June.... Watch ▸ jump to 1:13:37 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...AI. So the call comes out, it's dispatched by the address in which it's been, it's needed. Um, that'll be initiated through telecommunications. Um, on the police side, our, uh, front desk area would be, uh, drone operators and run the operation of the drone during the incident and to basically give eyes to our officers in the sky, um, on the, on how it would work. Um, how I think reason why I'll tell you straight, the reason why number one, why it wouldn't work is that the technology is not... Watch ▸ jump to 1:12:52 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...this doesn't work for our city? Well, the training we didn't, I wouldn't know the exact time or hours into training. I would have to obviously revisit that. Um, but the train does encompass the, the deployment of the drone is, um, AI. So the call comes out, it's dispatched by the address in which it's been, it's needed. Um, that'll be initiated through telecommunications. Um, on the police side, our, uh, front desk area... Watch ▸ jump to 1:12:32 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...time, but any bit of information to help us start our incident off on the right foot is only going to help us and make us better. Um, so that's kind of what we've always wanted was right from the initial dispatch call, that drone can go up and get eyes right on that bridge because they will normally float for a little bit, but then eventually they're going to go down and that current is going to take them wherever it takes them. And that current changes from minute to minute. It can, it won't be the same... Watch ▸ jump to 1:07:29 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...So, in the scheme of things, when a police officer responds to an incident, uh, the drone could be there, um, in flight as like a helicopter would be a manned by, uh, the state police or any other entity. Um, the drone give us eyes on scene to ensure resources are being deployed in the right direction with the right amount necessary and also, um, provides opportunity for, again, I can't speak about the fire side of it, but, um, I know putting the joint up, um, in a fire, I know the, the fire chief of... Watch ▸ jump to 1:04:40 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...that video will be considered evidence as part of any investigation that involves, uh, death or criminal action, um, an incident occurs. Uh, it provides eyes. It's basically a first responder drone. So, in the scheme of things, when a police officer responds to an incident, uh, the drone could be there, um, in flight as like a helicopter would be a manned by, uh, the state police or any other entity. Um, the drone give us eyes on scene to ensure resources are being deployed in the right... Watch ▸ jump to 1:04:29 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...about the agreement and to protect, um, that data. It does collect video. Um, obviously, that video will be considered evidence as part of any investigation that involves, uh, death or criminal action, um, an incident occurs. Uh, it provides eyes. It's basically a first responder drone. So, in the scheme of things, when a police officer responds to an incident, uh, the drone could be there, um, in flight as like a helicopter would be a manned by, uh, the state police or any other... Watch ▸ jump to 1:04:21 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...had, uh, taken their own life via jumping the bridge, uh, or, um, driving their cars into the river. Um, what had happened is in that response, obviously, uh, when these acts happen, um, people go underneath the water, uh, very quickly. Uh, the drone technology could be dispatched at the, at the first call, uh, be the first eyes to the incident and point us in the right direction. Um, we had an incident where a gentleman had, had jumped off the bridge and didn't actually go into the... Watch ▸ jump to 1:03:17 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...And again, I want to thank Flock safety for their responsiveness to this. But this language underlined, Flock does not own and shall not sell customer data. Again, that's the important stuff. So the customer will use Flock services, Flock hardware, and Flock software in a drone as first responder, DFR capacity, and not in a license plate reader LPR capacity. So I can let the chief speak to sort of operationally what that means. But what it should mean is that this is intended for... Watch ▸ jump to 59:18 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...the $50,000 per year contract. Quote, and that Mayor Eugene Nassar is authorized to send, sign any and all documents for this Flock safety drone as first responder DFR program, subject to review and approval as to content informed by the office of the general council. Um, and then if you look attached to that resolution, you will see, uh, what was then sort of their... Watch ▸ jump to 54:54 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...The letter. And that's it. A drone. So they have the, not the resolution, but they have the full agreement. Is that what Briggs about to present?... Watch ▸ jump to 52:06 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...Um, extremely excited about that. And again, um, all the credos go to those that wear the shield and wear the patch of the city of Middletown and its police department. So I'm extremely proud of that as well. Um, if there's no questions, I'll move on to flock, uh, drone agreement. Um, and that will be, I believe Briggs on this call. If, uh, you want to bring Briggs up, he'll be presenting this topic for the commission.... Watch ▸ jump to 50:01 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...oh okay well look it looked like you had your hand raised apologies okay awesome all right and just note i think in the chat there was uh someone from the public his name was alex who was in support of the drone program so just noting that for the record alex jones i am in support of flock drone program as a town resident and it looks like now we have alicia reed who has raised her hand or their hand and would like to speak... Watch ▸ jump to 13:21 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...which could be anyone um essentially my big worry is without that oversight we're handing plausible deniability to flock or even our police officers here if they aren't exactly following the law um to fly a drone over our city and to spot anyone they want and i don't think that's something anyone here wants uh thank you for the time okay thank you is there anyone else please come on up um my name is meredith pollack i reside at [address redacted]... Watch ▸ jump to 6:23 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...right we don't have any visibility on what code it's running on the machine um and then just to give context i wanted to read out i'm sure this will be reviewed later um but i wanted to just give context to read out that from the flock drone site itself um this response 9-1-1 9-1-1 calls license plate reader hits gun gunshot detection it shares live video life thermal video night vision video um to uh they list stakeholders here... Watch ▸ jump to 5:48 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...well and that they are um essentially doing what they're told right following the code that they're programmed and my main issue with the flock drone as well as flock itself is there's no guarantee that this flock drone will follow the programming or follow the orders of the cops we have here right we don't have any visibility on what code it's running on the machine um and then just to give context i wanted to read out i'm sure this will be reviewed later... Watch ▸ jump to 5:32 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...which means i work with robots on a daily basis um and it's generally my job to make sure that they work well and that they are um essentially doing what they're told right following the code that they're programmed and my main issue with the flock drone as well as flock itself is there's no guarantee that this flock drone will follow the programming or follow the orders of the cops we have here right we don't have any visibility on what code it's running on the machine... Watch ▸ jump to 5:27 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...unregulated these these issues come up over and over again for flock they come up over and over again for you know meta or they come over and over again for google errors that are uh attributed to ai or most recent technologies and i just like to encourage you to um to uh not move ahead with the flock uh drone because you know no matter what form the flock technology takes it is feeding into the flock system and we know the flock system has errors and is sometimes inaccurate thank you all right thank you... Watch ▸ jump to 4:27 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Fire July 2026

...We finished that up for the last fiscal year. We've been doing marine and dive training since it is the season. My drone training continues to go on every month. We did training on the new extractor washer and dryer. We obtained that through the CDBG money.... Watch ▸ jump to 4:38 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-06-15] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Committee Police June 2026

...We are in the midst of finalizing our contracts with FLOC for the first response drone. I thought, I'll be honest with you, Briggs, Smith did a great job protecting the city and the data and those things that are necessary for that program. We are hoping we can get funding for that first year for that drone, so we're looking forward to the opportunity to having it almost there. It's not there yet. It has to go in front of the council.... Watch ▸ jump to 9:37 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-06-15] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Committee Fire June 2026

...And it was a good time just to have people there and fellowshipping together. And then we did have, obviously, the pride event. I want to thank Chief Costa for the hospitality, like always at the PD. We do put our fire staff in that command and their command post as well. We have our drone pilots on the roof. And like always, you guys had great hospitality. We do really work very well together between two departments, probably the best I've ever seen it throughout my 18 years here in the city. How cohesive it is. And I think that starts at the top. So thank you, Chief. I appreciate that.... Watch ▸ jump to 3:33 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-06-15] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Committee Fire June 2026

...I'm not seeing anyone online at this moment and there's no one here in 208. So I will close this portion of the agenda and hand it over to Chief Albert. So for correspondence, I did not have any for the month monthly report. We had 392 calls. That was our highest call line to date. It was our busiest month by about 40 to 40 calls or so. We did do several mutual aid calls to South fire district, but then we did have a drone assist with the PD when they had an incident out in the Westlake area events. I worked planning meetings as we are just over a week away from that event. I did hold a comman... Watch ▸ jump to 1:55 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-06-15] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Committee Police June 2026

...Body one cameras. And then the concerns with, obviously, the fallout of the FLOC cameras and those data sharing. We are in the midst of finalizing our contracts with FLOC for the first response drone. I thought, I'll be honest with you, Briggs, Smith did a great job protecting the city and the data and those things that are necessary for that program. We are hoping we can get funding for that first year for that drone, so we're looking forward to the opportunity to having it almost there.... Watch ▸ jump to 9:18 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-03-05] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police March 5th 2026

...that other people will feel reassured as well and thank you again for sending that information i appreciate it absolutely thank you i don't have any more questions chief okay um i'm gonna i'm i'm gonna move on from the drone discussion um in front of us uh we tonight we have a vote that needs to occur to move on to gcc i believe is the revision of the ordinance uh 3-1-1-31-11 um which is the ability for this commission to set rates... Watch ▸ jump to 34:20 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-03-05] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police March 5th 2026

...it minimizes confusion it minimizes discrepancy and when officers are making decisions they're making sound decisions when responding to calls because they are front-loaded with information um and knowing what they're going into um that being said um we're looking to expand our drone program at the department enhance our license plate reader technology we are not a flock lpr city we don't we're not with flock we are with recor and odonai which is um only a clue what they call closed loop we own all of our data... Watch ▸ jump to 17:00 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-03-05] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police March 5th 2026

...than rescind it uh we pulled it from the agenda to give general counsel and uh to hear what the citizens are saying so we can move forward with this project that i think to your point would be extremely helpful and again i can't like just in the scheme of things in the business um end of it is that flox drone program their actual equipment is is at the top of the line is the best the best and uh there are other vendors that have come out that we had looked at um and they weren't to the standards that we were looking for... Watch ▸ jump to 29:41 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-03-05] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police March 5th 2026

...we didn't know that until thank god a witness had come forward and said no that's not where he jumped this is where he's jumped from we thought it was when we're looking in the water he's actually on the land the drone can identify that faster if we had we had it up in the air those are the things that this drone will do for us and again i'll reiterate this is um a cost that does not go to the taxpayer it will go through um for grant funding that we have secured fifty thousand dollars so we're looking... Watch ▸ jump to 25:24 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-03-05] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police March 5th 2026

...um so would this be uh something that since we do do mutual aid and we're talking about you know where we're responding to other areas would this be something that we could also collaborate with our surrounding towns to kind of help with the cost or no we can't because the drone is only allowed it can only travel three miles from the point of where it's carried uh the cradle is so that's all our major entities are hospitals to cbh hospital middlesex hospital our downtown area north end and... Watch ▸ jump to 31:35 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-03-05] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police March 5th 2026

...vendors that have come out that we had looked at um and they weren't to the standards that we were looking for the maintenance the care um and obviously we don't want to be paying um fees that we didn't think were necessary and um that's why flock is the national leader in that um but the drone doesn't collect data where they could share with others uh just just one other question um you know barring you know major incidences and let's just say you know it does help us respond and we like it after a year is... Watch ▸ jump to 30:09 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-03-05] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police March 5th 2026

...identify hot spots um that was a significant uh piece uh lieutenant by switch was there and praised the drones for for that safety um it's the same thing here we had four uh suicides uh three um that were successful one that was uh found seriously injured the drone gets deployed uh in the water uh near the water we find the locations faster we put our divers in faster in the location where we know where to look uh the the party that jumped off the bridge didn't make the water he was on the site on the land... Watch ▸ jump to 24:57 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-03-05] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police March 5th 2026

...i will tell you that our first time we used our drones was in south south fire we had a forest fire and they didn't know the extent of the size of the fire until we brought the drone out there um so we used the drone to find out the scope uh without putting any firemen in harm's way to try to identify uh the edges of the forest fire and to identify hot spots um that was a significant uh piece uh lieutenant by switch was there and praised the... Watch ▸ jump to 24:29 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-03-05] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police March 5th 2026

...know all the things that you don't want people to have the data for for self uh for their self uh purposes or for sale um these will be uh i think they can restrict the data just to criminal activity and needs and that's more than appropriate um so with the drone itself it's it's a first responder it's an it's basically an officer in the air it's a helicopter you've probably seen through the 80s and 90s or uh that has eyes in the skies that give us a better idea of what we're dealing with as we respond... Watch ▸ jump to 23:59 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-03-05] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police March 5th 2026

...to do that either and here in connecticut yeah but nonetheless i do understand and um i can only tell you what i know about the project thank you chief thank you uh keep just to give a little bit more context um and just looking up you know flock and since they are you know part of many drone companies that have uh that are in the business of you know providing services not only to government but to municipalities there was an article that did refer to them working with the government at one time... Watch ▸ jump to 28:08 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-03-05] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police March 5th 2026

...more than happy to answer but if not i can move on to our new business i don't need any hands chief our new business first and foremost i know last um common council meeting on monday we've dealt with flock dfr program which is our drone program i know the project was um tabled for next month as um general council will be dealing with working with flock um council to um put in provisions that are stronger in language so um the data is um protected um in a layman's term... Watch ▸ jump to 22:11 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-03-05] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police March 5th 2026

...can you comment on that it's not a true statement that's the best way i can answer i mean i know people are concerned i think i could say it a thousand ways councilman um i can tell you that that drone data cannot be used uh or um ice can't just search that information it's a video we hold that in the cloud in the secured cloud it would have to ask for permission um they can with that being said though they could go through the... Watch ▸ jump to 26:20 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-03-05] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police March 5th 2026

...this is where he's jumped from we thought it was when we're looking in the water he's actually on the land the drone can identify that faster if we had we had it up in the air those are the things that this drone will do for us and again i'll reiterate this is um a cost that does not go to the taxpayer it will go through um for grant funding that we have secured fifty thousand dollars so we're looking forward to that up that opportunity any questions for that i'll refer to the commission first if there... Watch ▸ jump to 25:29 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-02-02] Common Council -- COMMON COUNCIL - SPECIAL MEETING -- QUESTIONS TO DIRECTORS

...So once a call comes in, the dispatcher will be able to hit a button. The drone will self-deploy. It uses GIS and map data, and it's going to go straight to the incident,... Watch ▸ jump to 4:44 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-02-02] Common Council -- COMMON COUNCIL - SPECIAL MEETING -- QUESTIONS TO DIRECTORS

...Okay. But they are participating in the sense of pressing the button. The biggest thing about this drone is it deploys the drone so we can adequately send our personnel out appropriately. And sometimes reports of incidences are much bigger... Watch ▸ jump to 7:55 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-02-02] Common Council -- COMMON COUNCIL - SPECIAL MEETING -- QUESTIONS TO DIRECTORS

...By the contract. Yeah. All the training that's required to work this new drone would be part of the contract that's in front of you. Okay.... Watch ▸ jump to 7:35 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-02-02] Common Council -- COMMON COUNCIL - SPECIAL MEETING -- QUESTIONS TO DIRECTORS

...once our drone operators come on scene, they will then be able to take control of the drone or fly our drone. So we already have people that are certified. No additional training is needed... Watch ▸ jump to 7:18 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-02-02] Common Council -- COMMON COUNCIL - SPECIAL MEETING -- QUESTIONS TO DIRECTORS

...Next is Councilwoman Sweeney, please. Thank you, Your Honor. While we're talking about all the wonderful things this drone will be able to see, can you speak to the data privacy aspects of it, how that data will be stored, or if it won't be stored long-term?... Watch ▸ jump to 10:14 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-02-02] Common Council -- COMMON COUNCIL - SPECIAL MEETING -- QUESTIONS TO DIRECTORS

...now it will have the ability of once our drone operators come on scene, they will then be able to take control of the drone or fly our drone. So we already have people that are certified.... Watch ▸ jump to 7:16 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-02-02] Common Council -- COMMON COUNCIL - SPECIAL MEETING -- QUESTIONS TO DIRECTORS

...than what they actually are and vice versa. They're much bigger than reported, and the drone will help us in that deployment. I know on the fire side, it will definitely help them out as well. Yeah, because I've seen that on TV, and it's more specific,... Watch ▸ jump to 8:12 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-02-02] Common Council -- COMMON COUNCIL - SPECIAL MEETING -- QUESTIONS TO DIRECTORS

...So this drone self-flies now it will have the ability of once our drone operators come on scene, they will then be able to take control of the drone or fly our drone.... Watch ▸ jump to 7:14 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-02-02] Common Council -- COMMON COUNCIL - SPECIAL MEETING -- QUESTIONS TO DIRECTORS

...especially with the river, with the bridge. My dream was to always have, say, we get a jumper off the bridge, to have that drone deploy right away, not wait for us to get on scene, open it up, charge it up, and run it. It would go right from the firehouse.... Watch ▸ jump to 8:57 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-02-02] Common Council -- COMMON COUNCIL - SPECIAL MEETING -- QUESTIONS TO DIRECTORS

...my drone's not available right away. His team will deploy theirs and vice versa. So this drone self-flies now it will have the ability of once our drone operators come on scene,... Watch ▸ jump to 7:10 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-02-02] Common Council -- COMMON COUNCIL - SPECIAL MEETING -- QUESTIONS TO DIRECTORS

...especially for our response to Wesleyan University. We have situations where a crisis occurs on campus. This drone will deploy with putting us in a safety position where we can deploy officers strategically to minimize any threats that may occur on that campus.... Watch ▸ jump to 9:23 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-02-02] Common Council -- COMMON COUNCIL - SPECIAL MEETING -- QUESTIONS TO DIRECTORS

...We also help each other out with calls. If I have a fire, my drone's not available right away. His team will deploy theirs and vice versa. So this drone self-flies... Watch ▸ jump to 7:06 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-02-02] Common Council -- COMMON COUNCIL - SPECIAL MEETING -- QUESTIONS TO DIRECTORS

...The same thing with the hospital. If we have any threats in the hospital where we feel an appropriate response, this drone will give us that opportunity to pre-plan and info load prior to our arrival, which is very important in crisis situations. Yeah, we have a lot of facilities that will benefit from that, definitely.... Watch ▸ jump to 9:40 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-02-02] Common Council -- COMMON COUNCIL - SPECIAL MEETING -- QUESTIONS TO DIRECTORS

...What's that? So both departments already have a fully certified drone team. Police and fire, we actually train with each other on a monthly basis.... Watch ▸ jump to 6:58 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-02-02] Common Council -- COMMON COUNCIL - SPECIAL MEETING -- QUESTIONS TO DIRECTORS

...Yeah, we have a lot of facilities that will benefit from that, definitely. You can add the gas company, the natural gas, and those type of companies as well. That drone will be able to touch those locations. Right. Awesome.... Watch ▸ jump to 9:57 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-02-02] Common Council -- COMMON COUNCIL - SPECIAL MEETING -- QUESTIONS TO DIRECTORS

...You and your departments. And while you're both there, I have an additional question about the drone, which is really, I've watched it on TV. It's amazing.... Watch ▸ jump to 6:37 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2026-02-02] Common Council -- COMMON COUNCIL - SPECIAL MEETING -- QUESTIONS TO DIRECTORS

...can you speak to the data privacy aspects of it, how that data will be stored, or if it won't be stored long-term? This isn't a drone that would collect, like, of concerns, like LPR, license plate data, those type of things. It would not, that won't record those type of things.... Watch ▸ jump to 10:26 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2025-10-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Fire Oct. 2025

...were kind enough to bring it out to one of our marine unit trainings and get it on the boat with us and show us their its capabilities it is a resource for us and pd to call if we do get a dive incident where we know it is going to be long term and we need to run sonar and have the drone all we have to do is ask for it and it'll be there so um through the trainings that we've done we we created a pretty good partnership with the connecticut state police dive team which is nice because in the past it wasn't... Watch ▸ jump to 8:37 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2025-10-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Fire Oct. 2025

...the language actually jives with what we're currently doing because some of those policies were from before i even got hired and there's things in there that we haven't even heard of so it's time that we really update those um training for the month our drone team was invited to a swap exercise up at higbee um like the capital region swap teams there's swat teams from all over the place but they asked our drone team to come up and help in conjunction with it we were there for most of the day it was really awesome to see... Watch ▸ jump to 16:20 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2025-10-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Fire Oct. 2025

...left of it you don't want to tell it true yeah so i'm just saying but there's access points so we got there's vulnerabilities and we just got to make sure that because okay yeah yep uh so events i i attended all my required monthly meetings um the connecticut state police purchased a underwater drone um they were kind enough to bring it out to one of our marine unit trainings and get it on the boat with us and show us their its capabilities it is a resource for us and pd to call if we do get a dive incident... Watch ▸ jump to 8:20 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2025-10-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Fire Oct. 2025

...we really update those um training for the month our drone team was invited to a swap exercise up at higbee um like the capital region swap teams there's swat teams from all over the place but they asked our drone team to come up and help in conjunction with it we were there for most of the day it was really awesome to see and uh seeing their mobile command vehicle as well i really made myself and costa have kind of talked about that i think that is something that we can really benefit from with all the events that we... Watch ▸ jump to 16:33 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2025-10-01] Inland Wetlands and Watercourses Agency -- INLAND WETLAND AND WATERCOURSES AGENCY

...So those, oh, what, I meant to bring this up, the, the, um, uh, [address redacted]. Yeah. Um, the word drone is not spelled correctly. What's it spelled? How's it spelled?... Watch ▸ jump to 24:45 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2025-04-28] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission April 2025 - Fire

...Go through the city at our real target hazards all 1 year, we talked about open area active shooter, maybe like a 4th of July firework. We really need to start simulating where our true target hazards are, but it was a phenomenal 2 day event. And I think it was an eye opener and I can tell you there's no cities because we're all working collaboratively that looks something to scale. And next month we're going to put together a nice video for you guys and we'll play it here. Uh, drone footage, body cams, pictures, and we'll kind of have a couple of our guys come and speak about maybe some stats... Watch ▸ jump to 15:12 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2024-12-16] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission - Police, December 2024

...My name is Laura Timmons. I'm at [address redacted] in Middletown. I saw some chatter about drone sightings and things like that. I guess I'd like to hear your opinion on it. I don't have an intelligent one on it, unfortunately.... Watch ▸ jump to 52:08 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2024-10-21] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission - October 21, 2024 Fire

...And that kind of also led me to something out and talk about new business as well. Another busy month of training, like always, we concluded our dive training, drone training, company level training. And then we had a two-day active shooter drill at Mile Lane. And I talked about it at CBV as well the very next day once it was completed. And we actually made history last month with all the departments. All three fire departments have never actually done a training... Watch ▸ jump to 7:42 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2024-09-16] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission - Police, September 16, 2024

...So, I just wanted to... But that helps. We're also looking at using our drone program as a patrol potentially. Yeah. But that will be if it's...... Watch ▸ jump to 35:33 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2024-09-16] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission - Fire September 16, 2024

...Someone tried to commit suicide, drive their car in the river and would not tell anybody if there's anybody else in. So our dive team had to go and we had to dive and confirm that the vehicle was empty. So that was all in an eight day span. So extremely busy, extremely challenging, a lot of tragedies. And, you know, obviously the tragedy with LTIR, who he actually taught our drone program. So about 10 of our members had a really good, he was a friend of mine, close relationship with him. So we are bringing in some peer support this week to the whole department, just give the guys a chance at n... Watch ▸ jump to 2:20 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2024-09-16] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission - Fire September 16, 2024

...I think it's a great thing and I have a lot of fun. So I'll be doing that for the next several Mondays. Training, dive, marine, and drone continued as always. Company level training and then rebid training with South Fire District all last week on Eastern Drive that acquired structure. So we've been doing some joint operation trainings together there.... Watch ▸ jump to 4:49 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2024-08-26] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Special Meeting - Fire & Police - August 26, 2024

...We're there for an EMS, but we're also there for fire education and it's also a recruiting tool. You know, it's I'll see the fire truck. We see the drone. We see the bikes, you know, something might pique their interest. So, um, I'm definitely trying to get out in the community a lot more than my guys.... Watch ▸ jump to 5:09 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2024-08-26] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Special Meeting - Fire & Police - August 26, 2024

...So, um, I'm definitely trying to get out in the community a lot more than my guys. Uh, training busy as always. We had our dive, marine and drone training like we do every month. Uh, we bought new forecast meters for all the apparatus. So the assistant chief had to train all 4 platoons on that.... Watch ▸ jump to 5:20 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2024-07-15] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission July 15, 2024 - Fire

...So we did have Eversource come in for four days. They did underground emergencies with all four shifts. We did a three guys went to two weeks of drone class. So we added three more certified drone pilots for our drone team. We did have five guys attend a diver class throughout the summer as well.... Watch ▸ jump to 7:53 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2024-07-15] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission July 15, 2024 - Fire

...They did underground emergencies with all four shifts. We did a three guys went to two weeks of drone class. So we added three more certified drone pilots for our drone team. We did have five guys attend a diver class throughout the summer as well. So we've added three divers and two line tenders.... Watch ▸ jump to 7:56 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2024-07-15] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission July 15, 2024 - Fire

...Under old business. So my fill overtime did pick up with just some summer vacancies. And then obviously with the drone class and the dive class, we are we allowed approved leave for that. That's stuff that we've done because it's team specific team training. So, you know, it kind of did come with a cost sending the people to class and then I had to cover their shifts.... Watch ▸ jump to 9:19 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2024-07-01] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission, Police - June 17, 2024

...Pride being probably the largest pride since I've been here. I think it was somewhere around 35,000 people that we've estimated. All over 200 vendors, about eight city blocks, side streets, 70 police officers to include emergency response teams, support from the city of Hawford, bomb units to patrol the area to protect any potential hazards. To our drone units and partnerships with our stakeholders. As Chief Albert has said, in regards to partnerships, without partnerships, it would be difficult to run events like this. It was quite the event. It did test our abilities and thank goodness it wa... Watch ▸ jump to 3:04 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2024-07-01] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission, Fire - June 17, 2024

...We did host a trench class to get our department up to speed with all the new hires. We continued our building walkthroughs and pre-planning, dive and marine training. We had our monthly drone training. We reviewed on our annual active violence policies and training as well. And then we did a annual department refresher in trench training.... Watch ▸ jump to 4:43 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2024-03-18] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Meeting - Fire, March 18, 2024

...increasing the features now members can just ask for a vacation day on their phone um i've integrated all our truck inspections now right through the phone app and it sends it right to me so it's a good thing and uh so that that's been a plus i did attend drone training we do have an indoor drone and we flew it at kegwin with our drone team what we're going to use that drone for is in the event of you know an active assailant or active shooter incident we can fly that drone inside the building... Watch ▸ jump to 5:45 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2024-03-18] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Meeting - Fire, March 18, 2024

...you know an active assailant or active shooter incident we can fly that drone inside the building first for recon i do believe pd is in the process of getting one and we've already reached out to your members and hopefully the next time we train this month uh we'll have your drone team there as well and we'll do it as a as a unit um so that that was pretty cool i had a labor management meeting i'll talk about this next in new business but jim pierce from our pma from our assurance carrier with... Watch ▸ jump to 6:07 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2024-03-18] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Meeting - Fire, March 18, 2024

...all our truck inspections now right through the phone app and it sends it right to me so it's a good thing and uh so that that's been a plus i did attend drone training we do have an indoor drone and we flew it at kegwin with our drone team what we're going to use that drone for is in the event of you know an active assailant or active shooter incident we can fly that drone inside the building first for recon i do believe pd is in the process of getting one and we've already reached out to your... Watch ▸ jump to 5:52 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2024-03-18] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Meeting - Fire, March 18, 2024

...thing and uh so that that's been a plus i did attend drone training we do have an indoor drone and we flew it at kegwin with our drone team what we're going to use that drone for is in the event of you know an active assailant or active shooter incident we can fly that drone inside the building first for recon i do believe pd is in the process of getting one and we've already reached out to your members and hopefully the next time we train this month uh we'll have your drone team there as well... Watch ▸ jump to 5:57 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2024-02-26] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Meeting, Fire - February 26, 2024

...All right. Is there anyone else from the public who wishes to speak for the fire department? If no one. I don't see anyone at this time, so I'll close this portion of the agenda and move on to correspondence and hand it over to Chief Warren. Okay. Evening everyone. No correspondence for the month. The monthly report, 336 emergency calls. We had a major structure fire on Scarborough Lane and Westfield. Last week, we responded with four chiefs, two fire, two engine companies in our drone. And then we had a chimney fire, pretty lengthy chimney fire in Long Lane last week. Other than that, it was ... Watch ▸ jump to 3:06 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2024-02-26] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Meeting, Fire - February 26, 2024

...A small drone, uh, has capabilities of flying inside buildings and that would be used for multitude of hazardous materials, active violence. Uh, so, uh, they, they did a couple of hours of flying inside Keglin school. Uh, some very interesting footage of, uh, them doing that. So when, when they fly the small drone, uh, they wear special goggles and they have a, uh, joystick. And it's, it's, it's like a partial, it's all virtual flying it where the big one, they fly it by sight. Uh, the small one, they fly virtual inside the building. So let me guess they like the small one better.... Watch ▸ jump to 6:38 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2024-02-26] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Meeting, Fire - February 26, 2024

...Uh, teaching us, uh, uh, teaching us better skills at a fire. Uh, once we extinguish fires, it's, it's kind of a fine line. We leave a lot of times we, we leave the building then for them to investigate the fire without disturbing, uh, as much as possible in the extinguishment. So, uh, uh, state farm marshals came in and, and gave a class on, uh, uh, you know, what to touch, what not to touch. That was great, great information. And then our, uh, aerial support team, uh, did some, uh, training of the drones. Uh, we have a large drone and we have a small drone. A small drone, uh, has capabilitie... Watch ▸ jump to 6:08 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2024-02-26] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Meeting, Fire - February 26, 2024

...So, uh, uh, state farm marshals came in and, and gave a class on, uh, uh, you know, what to touch, what not to touch. That was great, great information. And then our, uh, aerial support team, uh, did some, uh, training of the drones. Uh, we have a large drone and we have a small drone. A small drone, uh, has capabilities of flying inside buildings and that would be used for multitude of hazardous materials, active violence. Uh, so, uh, they, they did a couple of hours of flying inside Keglin school. Uh, some very interesting footage of, uh, them doing that. So when, when they fly the small dro... Watch ▸ jump to 6:22 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2023-12-18] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Meeting December 18, 2023 - Fire

...baskets to the kiwanis thanksgiving program uh attended the christian tree lighting at south green uh attended the monthly opioid task force subcommittee meeting uh we had a joint uh middletown fire middletown police drone training out at my lane uh both drone programs got together and uh did some tracking of uh personnel um lost personnel and then did some uh we have smaller drone that could fly inside the building so we did some indoor drone... Watch ▸ jump to 9:35 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2023-12-18] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Meeting December 18, 2023 - Fire

...anything additional they need to do so uh they were estimating the v cuts at about 2500 and then they need to go from there once they can inspect once they make the cuts and have to bond it uh our four new drone we have four more new drone pilots they passed their faa uh written certification tests and now they've uh uh doing the hands-on training and they have to do a nist certification because we're public safety so they've transitioned into the hands-on flying so uh as soon as they're... Watch ▸ jump to 21:39 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2023-12-18] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Meeting December 18, 2023 - Fire

...year uh and lawn that was inspected looking for any kind of deficiencies or uh age requirements on it so that that was done in the past week uh multiple drone training exercises with the drone team uh all four shifts did a walk through of the new field apartments uh they did two weeks of extrication training and uh on city yard the vehicles were placed at city yard and they also did lifting and stabilization... Watch ▸ jump to 16:41 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2023-12-18] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Meeting December 18, 2023 - Fire

...uh we have smaller drone that could fly inside the building so we did some indoor drone training so uh it was a great we invited um middletown's middletown high's avionics program came and met with both drone teams uh that's who did some of our initial training so it's no actually there's a two and two uh teachers there i'll teach that they did our initial faa certification so we wanted to uh invite them out to see how both programs have grown and they were quite surprised in a year how... Watch ▸ jump to 10:10 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2023-12-18] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Meeting December 18, 2023 - Fire

...the uh training division did gear inspection for both sets of protective gear gets inspected each year uh and lawn that was inspected looking for any kind of deficiencies or uh age requirements on it so that that was done in the past week uh multiple drone training exercises with the drone team uh all four shifts did a walk through of the new field apartments uh they did two weeks of extrication training and uh on city yard the vehicles were... Watch ▸ jump to 16:35 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2023-12-18] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Meeting December 18, 2023 - Fire

...a couple weeks ago we had a large fire in westfield last wednesday evening on stantac road again we went mutual aid with two engine companies our drone and four fire chiefs that's again it was in the media this that that's an unhydrated area of the city so uh that's uh tanker trucks bring the water to those fires we get we got there uh middletown fire we got there relatively fast um as soon as there was water put on the fire... Watch ▸ jump to 8:27 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2023-12-18] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Meeting December 18, 2023 - Fire

...uh we had a joint uh middletown fire middletown police drone training out at my lane uh both drone programs got together and uh did some tracking of uh personnel um lost personnel and then did some uh we have smaller drone that could fly inside the building so we did some indoor drone training so uh it was a great we invited um middletown's middletown high's avionics program came and met with both drone teams uh that's who did some of our initial training so it's no actually... Watch ▸ jump to 9:55 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2023-11-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Meeting November 20, 2023 - Fire

...We purchased a second smaller drone and that one of the reasons we bought a smaller one. We can actually fly the drone into a building, inside a building if we have to. And there's multiple incidents where it would benefit us or PD or both of us to have the capability to send an unmanned drone into a building, send us a video feed out. The 28th of this month, we have a group training exercise with PD. That's going to be a mile lane with both drone teams and the SWAT team.... Watch ▸ jump to 19:37 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2023-11-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Meeting November 20, 2023 - Fire

...So that means we'll have two more going to recruit class starts on February 14th. Let's see. New business. Believe it or not, we're starting to prepare for a budget, getting the budget ready again, 30 that time of year. We have four new drone pilots in school. We purchased a second smaller drone and that one of the reasons we bought a smaller one. We can actually fly the drone into a building, inside a building if we have to.... Watch ▸ jump to 19:12 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2023-11-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Meeting November 20, 2023 - Fire

...Let's see. New business. Believe it or not, we're starting to prepare for a budget, getting the budget ready again, 30 that time of year. We have four new drone pilots in school. We purchased a second smaller drone and that one of the reasons we bought a smaller one. We can actually fly the drone into a building, inside a building if we have to. And there's multiple incidents where it would benefit us or PD or both of us to have the capability to send an unmanned drone into a building, send us a video feed out.... Watch ▸ jump to 19:20 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2023-11-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Meeting November 20, 2023 - Fire

...And there's multiple incidents where it would benefit us or PD or both of us to have the capability to send an unmanned drone into a building, send us a video feed out. The 28th of this month, we have a group training exercise with PD. That's going to be a mile lane with both drone teams and the SWAT team. And they're going to do a group exercise with both units. That's not competitive, correct?... Watch ▸ jump to 19:59 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2023-11-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Meeting November 20, 2023 - Fire

...We have four new drone pilots in school. We purchased a second smaller drone and that one of the reasons we bought a smaller one. We can actually fly the drone into a building, inside a building if we have to. And there's multiple incidents where it would benefit us or PD or both of us to have the capability to send an unmanned drone into a building, send us a video feed out. The 28th of this month, we have a group training exercise with PD.... Watch ▸ jump to 19:30 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2023-11-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Meeting November 20, 2023 - Fire

...Working with the SWAT team, so it'll be soon. It's good. It's been a great, it's been great to see the supervision that runs our drone program. And it's reached out with PD, and they've been meeting and working together. It's awesome.... Watch ▸ jump to 20:33 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2023-11-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Meeting November 20, 2023 - Fire

...No, no, that is not. How's the tech team get water? So, actually, this will be, they'll actually be flying the drone inside the mile lane facility, doing some reconnaissance. Oh, wow. Working with the SWAT team, so it'll be soon.... Watch ▸ jump to 20:20 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2023-09-18] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Meeting - September 18, 2023 - Fire

...It was more like a barn. It was a pretty large structure. We were called to Cromwell to assist with our drone for downed parachutists. We went to Olmo Street and South Fire for a structured fire. And then over, not this past weekend, the weekend before, Meriden for a three-alarm fire from a lightning strike.... Watch ▸ jump to 2:30 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2023-08-21] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Meeting August 21, 2023 - Fire

...Since the past month, we had the International Association of Firefighters Hazmat Group come in and do LNG training for us. And then they finished up extrication training on vehicles. And our drone pilots continue to train each week. Old business? Sure.... Watch ▸ jump to 5:45 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2023-07-17] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Meeting July 17, 2023 - Fire

...For training, past month they did vehicle rescue and stabilization. Two weeks of that of the city yard. There's been multiple sessions of drone training with all the pilots. Marine operations team, before the flooding, was on the river doing some of their summer training. Monthly EMS training.... Watch ▸ jump to 8:58 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2023-07-17] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Meeting July 17, 2023 - Fire

...We've used drone extensively in the past couple weeks. Today we signed a formal MOU with the union. On that, in that MOU, right now we have four unionized drone, members of the union are drone pilots. We're going to send four more short term and then two more next year. So the team will have a total of 10 FAA certified pilots probably within a year.... Watch ▸ jump to 12:33 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2023-07-17] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Meeting July 17, 2023 - Fire

...Torque box for the ladder. So it's moving along. We've used drone extensively in the past couple weeks. Today we signed a formal MOU with the union. On that, in that MOU, right now we have four unionized drone, members of the union are drone pilots.... Watch ▸ jump to 12:24 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2023-07-17] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Meeting July 17, 2023 - Fire

...Way too big. It will never go through the doorway. But like just a DJI mini, they're about this big, that will be able to fly through something that we had to bring into a building. So you can go down the hallway. Yeah.... Watch ▸ jump to 13:27 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2023-07-17] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Meeting July 17, 2023 - Fire

...I'll get to in a second. But in Glastonbury, they had a dock break, two docks break free, one with nine boats, one with two boats. As we were leaving work, the Coast Guard and DEEP reached out to us to see if we could fly the drone. And we kind of, Deputy Chief was able to get it in the air. And we kind of watched the mayhem come down the river from Cromwell into Middletown.... Watch ▸ jump to 2:20 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2023-07-17] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Meeting July 17, 2023 - Fire

...I mean, I'm not mapping it, but we'll be measuring it. Yeah, we'll watch, I'll measure it from now on to make sure we know what it's going to do next time. I'll get to the, I'll get to the drone in a second. Let's see. I think that was it for that.... Watch ▸ jump to 5:54 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2023-07-17] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Meeting July 17, 2023 - Fire

...We're going to send four more short term and then two more next year. So the team will have a total of 10 FAA certified pilots probably within a year. Chief, are you looking to get another drone? No. We're just talking with one.... Watch ▸ jump to 12:56 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2023-07-17] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Meeting July 17, 2023 - Fire

...So it was just, was what it was. Yeah. The next morning, Public Works asked us to come down and map, take the drone and map, looking at Harbor Park from north down to like the emergency services dock, map the flooding so that when the water recedes, we can remap it and then get a good handle on what, what our rise of the river is here.... Watch ▸ jump to 4:44 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2023-07-17] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Meeting July 17, 2023 - Fire

...Uh, I haven't, but I already had a money set aside in this year's budget. So as soon as they give me the price, we'll, we'll start that project. Uh, again, we, we did the MOU on the drone that was signed today. Uh, we also came to an agreement with the union where we, uh, we're purchasing three bicycles. So we'll have a, uh, bicycle component for like the pride parade, the fireworks, where it's much easier to get a bicycle through the crowds.... Watch ▸ jump to 19:29 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2023-06-26] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Meeting - June 26, 2023 - Fire

...Uh, right. And we received our drone. Our drone is in, uh, we've used it at a couple of incidents. It was used at the fire yesterday. Uh, deputy chief out of fluid, uh, immediately being able to tell me that the roof was compromised.... Watch ▸ jump to 26:42 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2023-06-26] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Meeting - June 26, 2023 - Fire

...Uh, let them take a ride up in the hundred foot tower ladder. Uh, and then, uh, what else are we doing? Uh, flew the drone. Yeah, flew the drone. Yeah.... Watch ▸ jump to 5:34 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2023-06-26] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Meeting - June 26, 2023 - Fire

...Yeah, flew the drone. Yeah. If you'd see such a good drone. So put it up bucket of towel. I used to the friends down below and see, and then, uh, came back down here and had lunch.... Watch ▸ jump to 5:37 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2023-06-26] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Meeting - June 26, 2023 - Fire

...Uh, and then, uh, what else are we doing? Uh, flew the drone. Yeah, flew the drone. Yeah. If you'd see such a good drone.... Watch ▸ jump to 5:35 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2023-06-26] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Meeting - June 26, 2023 - Fire

...Nice. Uh, right. And we received our drone. Our drone is in, uh, we've used it at a couple of incidents. It was used at the fire yesterday.... Watch ▸ jump to 26:39 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2023-01-30] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Special Meeting January 30, 2023-Police

...Um, um, even, um, Friday night hoops at the YMCA sponsored by pal. I get up for an academic cadet program. We are, um. We also, um, fluid drone at the visual for, uh, a few Williams. Um, this was given to the mayor's office. We have, um.... Watch ▸ jump to 21:59 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2022-05-16] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission - Police

...The 3D measuring is unbelievable for accidents and we just had an incident in Travis square this weekend. Shooting Travis square this weekend. They're able to use the drone to. To do measurements and those in scale the event. So, it's well worth it.... Watch ▸ jump to 40:14 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2022-05-16] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission - Police

...Uh, burnt, uh, in the south end of town next to river road. Uh, by, uh, blue on the having water. Um, we provided services with our drone unit. Uh, we were able to identify hot spotting. Uh, where the fire was with that, there was, uh, give, um, effective response to the firefighters to break that.... Watch ▸ jump to 11:43 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2022-05-16] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission - Police

...You already talked about the social workers in law enforcement. So, I just want to go really quick back. Um, I just had one question. Uh, Captain Lushefsky in the department asked for money for a drone and you got a chance to use it. I didn't even know you actually got it. So, how did it go? Um, so the drone first the fire, the drone was able to be used and not put people in harm's way. Right? So, yes, that's what the purpose of the drone was, especially during searches of people that are missing. But our dog, our dog, our dog and our services out in the woods, same thing with this fire. Um, i... Watch ▸ jump to 38:49 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2022-05-16] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission - Police

...Uh, during this incident also, I freed up. I know they see there's a house on fire. I'm not relative to this. Active incident and they were able to save 4 lives that were trapped on the 2nd floor. Um, so it just, it's. The drone is, um, a good tool. It's going to eventually be a money saver. Um, I don't know. Um, over time.... Watch ▸ jump to 39:52 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2022-05-16] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission - Police

...All right. Um, just, uh, so that. You already talked about the social workers in law enforcement. So, I just want to go really quick back. Um, I just had one question. Uh, Captain Lushefsky in the department asked for money for a drone and you got a chance to use it. I didn't even know you actually got it. So, how did it go? Um, so the drone first the fire, the drone was able to be used and not put people in harm's way. Right? So, yes, that's what the purpose of the drone was, especially during searches of people that are missing. But our dog, our dog, our dog and our services out in the woods... Watch ▸ jump to 38:36 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2022-03-24] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission - Fire

...Aviation class, which invited us to go out and take ourselves and PD were out last week to take a look at. We have a drone certification class. I know the police department already has. Certified drone operators. Uh, so we're a little behind on that. So we're going to, they were looking for some participation from the fire department. So they're going to put some of our personnel into their summer class. So we can get our, uh, some of our fire personnel certified certified certified to fly drones.... Watch ▸ jump to 20:21 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2022-03-24] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission - Fire

...Uh, the, the, the Middletown high school has a. Aviation class, which invited us to go out and take ourselves and PD were out last week to take a look at. We have a drone certification class. I know the police department already has. Certified drone operators. Uh, so we're a little behind on that. So we're going to, they were looking for some participation from the fire department.... Watch ▸ jump to 20:17 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2021-07-19] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission - Police

...They walk off into a field or an area where we could save man power, man power, um, man hours where we can just send a drone up to look for these, uh, people or individuals, especially when we get the jumpers that go into the water. It's, it would be a lot easier because a lot of times it takes a little time to get a boat on the water. If we have the drone, it's a lot easier to, um, locate, especially when the drone is, is, uh, would be equipped with an infrared camera. Secondly, we would have mapping software anytime where we would have, uh, major crime scenes where we'd have to spend hours m... Watch ▸ jump to 32:34 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2021-07-19] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission - Police

...Um, after that, it would be, um, just the maintenance costs and I'm not sure how much in training, but it's really not as significant as the upfront cost. Okay, any idea how much or. I believe I don't have them in front of me. Go figure. I believe 1 of them was in the area of 38,000 was for, I believe the drone was in there. Some of the training and some of the maintenance. Well, that is for the first year I'm, but what what we're having now is we're, um, the 2 gentlemen that are assigned to do the research are presenting me with 3 different, um, 3 different packages. So I'm not 100% locked in... Watch ▸ jump to 34:47 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2021-07-19] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission - Police

...We do. I do that then. All right. Motion on the table by Councilman Salafi to accept donations and create a revenue line to accept those donations for a drone program. I have a 2nd. I'll 2nd constant manager if you go.... Watch ▸ jump to 37:18 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2021-07-19] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission - Police

...I'm not a hundred percent on the training. I know there's some F FAA training involved. Um, some drone training involved. So it basically in the beginning stages, there would be, uh, 2 operators or 2 pilots, if you will. Um, assigned to a drone until, you know, we get it up and running and, and actually tweet the program.... Watch ▸ jump to 33:30 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2021-07-19] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission - Police

...Okay, and so we, when we say, uh, so donations would be a part of it and then the revenue would obviously it would be a part of. Well, help me understand this. So we start the revenue line, but is this going to be supported through donations consistently? Or just just this 1 time to get it started? Uh, it would probably be the initial upfront cost to get it started, the actual purchase of the broke broke, um, the actual purchase of the drone. Um, depending on what we, depending on how much money we bring in, you know, we would look at the initial purchase, perhaps some of the training and mayb... Watch ▸ jump to 34:07 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2021-07-19] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission - Police

...Um, some drone training involved. So it basically in the beginning stages, there would be, uh, 2 operators or 2 pilots, if you will. Um, assigned to a drone until, you know, we get it up and running and, and actually tweet the program. Okay. Okay, and so we, when we say, uh, so donations would be a part of it and then the revenue would obviously it would be a part of.... Watch ▸ jump to 33:38 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2021-07-19] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission - Police

...The first and foremost, the drone program would be for a search and rescue. Um. We would use the, uh, drone for incidents when we have the dumpers on the bridge, missing persons. They walk off into a field or an area where we could save man power, man power, um, man hours where we can just send a drone up to look for these, uh, people or individuals, especially when we get the jumpers that go into the water. It's, it would be a lot easier because a lot of times it takes a little time to get a boat on the water.... Watch ▸ jump to 32:07 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2021-07-19] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission - Police

...Uh, good evening, everyone. Can you hear me? Yes, we can. Um, I'm coming to the committee to, um, in my first step to, I would like to create a, um, a revenue line for donations for a drone program for the Middletown Police Department. Uh, I obviously have to come through the public safety commission prior to going to finance and government and ultimately a grant confirmation with, um, uh, common council. So, uh, basically what we are doing now is we are going through, uh, prices and structuring for a drone, um, coming up with, uh, policies in the operating procedures.... Watch ▸ jump to 30:46 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2021-07-19] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission - Police

...Um, I'm coming to the committee to, um, in my first step to, I would like to create a, um, a revenue line for donations for a drone program for the Middletown Police Department. Uh, I obviously have to come through the public safety commission prior to going to finance and government and ultimately a grant confirmation with, um, uh, common council. So, uh, basically what we are doing now is we are going through, uh, prices and structuring for a drone, um, coming up with, uh, policies in the operating procedures. Uh, and, uh, we have several businesses throughout the city that are looking to do... Watch ▸ jump to 31:14 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2021-07-19] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission - Police

...Uh. Um. Uh, give me or give the commission just a little bit of a background on what we, what we need or would be using this drone program for. Absolutely. The first and foremost, the drone program would be for a search and rescue.... Watch ▸ jump to 31:50 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2021-07-19] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission - Police

...Uh, give me or give the commission just a little bit of a background on what we, what we need or would be using this drone program for. Absolutely. The first and foremost, the drone program would be for a search and rescue. Um. We would use the, uh, drone for incidents when we have the dumpers on the bridge, missing persons.... Watch ▸ jump to 32:00 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2021-07-19] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission - Police

...Um. We would use the, uh, drone for incidents when we have the dumpers on the bridge, missing persons. They walk off into a field or an area where we could save man power, man power, um, man hours where we can just send a drone up to look for these, uh, people or individuals, especially when we get the jumpers that go into the water. It's, it would be a lot easier because a lot of times it takes a little time to get a boat on the water. If we have the drone, it's a lot easier to, um, locate, especially when the drone is, is, uh, would be equipped with an infrared camera.... Watch ▸ jump to 32:15 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
[2021-07-19] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission - Police

...Thank you councilwoman. Uh, right if there's no other, uh, no other comments or questions, we'll move on to the next. Item, which is donations revenue line for drone program. Thank you. Thank you, Sergeant Porter. I'm going to defer and let captain speak on this. This is his. Thank you everyone. Good night.... Watch ▸ jump to 30:24 ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)

facial_recognition¶

[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...the public as a tool of local law enforcement to increase public safety however they are also gathering huge amounts of data for tech firms to sell access to that data is then being fed into real-time black box ai tools such as facial recognition and gait analysis to develop profiles on and surveil the everyday actions of americans further access to that data and our profiles is able to be purchased by federal and out of state agencies beyond the reach of middletown as well as who knows corporations and... Watch ▸ jump to 15:18 ▸ (term: facial_recognition, unreviewed)

gunshot_detection¶

[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...um and then just to give context i wanted to read out i'm sure this will be reviewed later um but i wanted to just give context to read out that from the flock drone site itself um this response 9-1-1 9-1-1 calls license plate reader hits gun gunshot detection it shares live video life thermal video night vision video um to uh they list stakeholders here which could be anyone um essentially my big worry is without that oversight we're handing plausible... Watch ▸ jump to 5:54 ▸ (term: gunshot_detection, unreviewed)

mobile_forensics¶

(no findings)

osint_social_monitor¶

(no findings)

predictive_policing¶

(no findings)

purchasing_broker¶

(no findings)

rtcc¶

[2026-07-20] Public Safety Commission -- Public Safety Commission Police July 2026

...what guarantees are there for the immigrants in our community that the data on these drones isn't going to be collected to be used in immigration enforcement, especially given the fact that we have a an intelligence fusion center right here in Middletown with representation from DHS. And so I really would like to see some more guarantees that the data being collected here is not, in fact, going to be shared with with national immigration enforcement or with other law enforcement organizations around the country.... Watch ▸ jump to 1:30:00 ▸ (term: fusion_center, unreviewed)

surveillance_general¶

(no findings)

undercover_tools¶

(no findings)

vehicle_forensics¶

(no findings)

video_analytics¶

(no findings)

Agenda/minutes mentions (unreviewed -- live keyword scan, no human review queue yet)¶

ai_data_fusion¶

(no mentions)

alpr¶

(no mentions)

biometrics_other¶

(no mentions)

body_camera¶

(no mentions)

cad¶

(no mentions)

cell_site_sim¶

(no mentions)

data_broker¶

(no mentions)

doorbell_partnership¶

(no mentions)

drone¶

(no mentions)

facial_recognition¶

(no mentions)

gunshot_detection¶

(no mentions)

mobile_forensics¶

(no mentions)

osint_social_monitor¶

(no mentions)

predictive_policing¶

(no mentions)

purchasing_broker¶

(no mentions)

rtcc¶

(no mentions)

surveillance_general¶

(no mentions)

undercover_tools¶

(no mentions)

vehicle_forensics¶

(no mentions)

video_analytics¶

(no mentions)

How this report was built¶

Everything below describes the corpus and its limits, rather than what was found in it.

Coverage status¶

Channels registered: 1
Active meeting bodies: 27
Videos registered: 2076 (fetched: 395, no captions: 0)
Date range covered: 2013-12-02 to 2026-08-26 (all 2076 videos dated)

Channels¶

display_name	channel_id	handle
City of Middletown (Granicus)	middletown_granicus

Tab crawl history¶

channel_id	tab	last_crawled_at	video_count
middletown_granicus	Default View - Granicus Content	2026-09-05 08:24:45.157166	2076

Registered meeting bodies¶

body_name	category	active	video_count
Budget Hearings	budget_finance	True	40
Insurance and Claims Commission	budget_finance	True	44
Standardization and Specifications Committee	budget_finance	True	3
Charter Revision Commission	council	True	25
Common Council	council	True	460
Board of Education	education	True	75
School Building Committee	education	True	2
Design Review and Preservation Board	land_use	True	3
Inland Wetlands and Watercourses Agency	land_use	True	118
Planning and Zoning Commission	land_use	True	233
Zoning Board of Appeals	land_use	True	78
[address redacted] Building Committee	other	True	14
Anti-Racism Task Force	other	True	26
Commission on the Arts	other	True	13
Economic Development Committee	other	True	25
General Counsel Commission	other	True	70
Human Relations Commission	other	True	54
LGBTQIA+ Commission	other	True	26
Parking Advisory Committee	other	True	7
Public Works and Facilities Commission	other	True	10
Resource Recycling Advisory Commission	other	True	31
Russell Library Board and Committees	other	True	149
Technology Advisory Committee	other	True	18
Water Pollution Control Authority	other	True	66
Code Enforcement Committee	public_safety	True	101
Public Safety 911 Center Building Committee	public_safety	True	14
Public Safety Commission	public_safety	True	128

Agenda/minutes coverage¶

No agenda source registered for this town yet.

Agenda sources¶

(none)

Research log¶

logged_at	field_name	new_value	source	by
2026-09-04 20:09:09.781745	channel_found	middletown_granicus -- Granicus host `middletown`, one flat "Default View" (view_id=2) holding 2,076 clips and ~2,580 hours from 2013-12-02 to 2026-08-26. This DIRECTLY supersedes the 2026-08-22 channel_platform finding, which concluded the transcript pipeline could not monitor Middletown and it would have to be watched manually. That was a limit of a YouTube-only crawl, not of the records: the town has published meeting video continuously for thirteen years.	Granicus view discovery + per-clip table parse, 2026-09-04	claude
2026-08-22 13:34:27.601158	channel_platform	No dedicated official YouTube channel found; current meetings hosted on Granicus (middletownct.gov/755/Granicus). Only YouTube hits are stale 2022 uploads from regional reuploader @jamesbregenzer (1083-video multi-town aggregator) and unrelated out-of-state "Middletown" channels (OH/RI/MI).	yt-dlp ytsearch + WebSearch, 2026-08-22	claude
2026-08-22 13:34:27.601158	flock_status_update	Mayor Eugene Nocera announced 2026-08-17 he will not sign the proposed Flock Safety contract, after a public hearing where 20-30 residents raised privacy concerns. City says it will continue exploring "alternative technologies" for its drone-as-first-responder program; no vendor named. No mention of Axon found in any coverage reviewed.	Patch	claude
2026-09-04 20:09:09.781745	granicus_publishes_test_views	Middletown publishes three views: the real archive (view 2, 2,076 clips) plus "xxTESTING View" (view 3, 232 clips) and "Granicus Test - Granicus Content" (view 4, 1,210 clips). 1,441 of those 1,442 clips are already in view 2. Ingesting them is not merely redundant -- the videos upsert prefers an incoming meeting_body_id_auto, so a test view processed after the real one relabels genuine meetings with a body inferred from "Granicus Test". The catalog now skips test views by name and dedupes clip ids across views, largest view first.	Clip-id set comparison across views 2, 3 and 4, 2026-09-04	claude
2026-09-04 20:09:09.781745	public_safety_commission_archive	The Public Safety Commission has 142 clips totalling 74.5 hours in the Granicus archive, meeting monthly and splitting its sessions into Police and Fire. Mayor Nocera refused to sign the Flock contract on 2026-08-17 and the city said it would keep exploring unnamed "alternative technologies" for its drone-as-first-responder program; no press coverage reviewed names a vendor. This is the body whose minutes would. Roughly 7 GPU-hours to transcribe the whole eleven-year run.	Per-clip title and duration parse of view_id=2, 2026-09-04	claude

Gaps and caveats¶

Videos with no captions available (0 shown, max 25)¶

(none)

Tabs never crawled¶

channel	tab
City of Middletown (Granicus)	videos
City of Middletown (Granicus)	streams

Get the full transcripts¶

Download Middletown's meeting transcripts (.zip)

Every finding in this report is a keyword match against exactly these files. Download them to check a quote in its full context, or to search for something this report's keyword list does not cover.

What's inside: one plain-text .txt file per meeting, named <date>_<video-id>_<meeting-title>.txt, plus a MANIFEST.txt giving the date range and how much of the town's video archive is transcribed.

How to use it

unzip middletown-meeting-transcripts.zip -d middletown
cd middletown

# every meeting that mentions a term, with the surrounding line
grep -rin "license plate" .

# just the meeting dates, from the filenames
grep -ril "flock" . | sort

The filename's leading date is the meeting date, so a hit tells you which meeting to watch. Find that meeting in the Timeline below for a direct, timestamped link to that moment in the video.

These are machine-generated captions, not certified minutes. Expect mis-heard names and technical terms, and quote the video rather than the transcript when accuracy matters.

Generated 2026-09-27T16:32:31 from Middletown's meeting transcripts and agenda documents. Home addresses spoken during public comment are redacted; see the archive MANIFEST for what that means.

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