This is the second time in under a year the camera proposal has failed.
Last June, council said no to an $80,000 plan that would have placed 15 Flock cameras in the city.
Akron Police have used the license plate readers for several months and credit the cameras for helping them find stolen cars and track down an endangered senior citizen. In the last year, Huff said that 16 cars and several catalytic converters had been stolen from the lot. Huff believes if Norton had the license plate reading technology, some potential thefts could be prevented.
"These things are artificial intelligence, and generally, they upgrade. So where does it stop?" she said.
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