Faced with sustained community outrage, lawsuits from the ACLU and other rights groups, fierce criticism over the lack of transparency and public input, cybersecurity, vendor profits and the approval process of the contracts themselves, CT Governor Ned Lamont on Friday called for an immediate statewide halt to new deployments of speed cameras and automated license plate readers (ALPRs).
Read More“In the Colonies, we do not tolerate remote tyrants surveilling our habits and patterns.” — Thomas Paine-In-The-Rear, Uncommon Sense. While local town debates focus on traffic tickets and speed limits, a much larger municipal crisis is unfolding in Town Hall: data sovereignty. When town officials sign off on automated traffic enforcement programs, citizen license plates, movement patterns, and location timestamps get harvested and routed directly into out-of-state, third-party corporate clouds.
Read MoreReporting that reveals how obsolete and manipulated Flood Zone, Open Space & Master Plan maps were inserted into Fairfield’s Town Plan to facilitate construction.
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The surveillance cameras, facial recognition scanners in supermarkets, RR self-pay parking kiosks, virtually every homeowner’s Ring doorbell – all upload Personally Identifiable Information (PII) to the cloud. The town is pressured to abandon its prime directive of protecting its citizens’ PII.
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A 2013 FEMA study placed nearly all seven miles of U.S. 1 in Fairfield in a flood zone—yet municipal planners continue to rely on obsolete maps to push high-density development and synthetic zoning overlays. With 13 years of rising sea levels, closed-door planning sessions, and third-party vendors redrawing traditional neighborhood lines, Fairfield must demand updated hydrology reports before finalizing its Town Plan.
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