Four of the Summit County Sheriff’s Office’s 30 Flock Safety automatic license plate reader cameras have been cut down.
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Sgt. Mike Schilling said all were vandalized the night of Aug. 6, a few days after someone tampered with another Flock camera by turning it so it no longer faced its intended area. Deputies corrected the turned camera, Schilling said, but because of the value of the cut-down cameras, whoever vandalized them could be arrested on felony charges.
Two of the cut-down cameras formerly stood along Colorado Highway 9 between Gateway Drive and Revett Drive, just south of the Gold Hill trailhead. Schilling said he could not comment on the locations of the affected cameras because of the ongoing investigation and the potential motives for the crime.
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“Those cameras could have been intentionally tampered with in some sort of deliberate attempt to make a specific area of the county less secure,” Schilling said. Whoever vandalized the cameras could also have been motivated by recent national and local pushback against the use of automatic license plate readers, Schilling added. He said that even if people have issues with the cameras, “criminal vandalism is not the answer.”
This story by Kyle McCabe comes from our partner, Summit Daily. Read the full story here.
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