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The Visalia City Council convened on October 6, 2026, for a regular meeting that included a pledge of allegiance led by Councilmember Soto and an invocation by Councilmember Nelson. No agenda or minutes were available for this summary; the supplied transcript identifies the meeting date inconsistently as Monday, October 5, 2006, while the date used here is the meeting date provided for this summary. After public comment, the council unanimously approved the consent calendar and adjourned.
Welcome to the Visalia City Council meeting. Today's Monday, October 5th, 2006, and we're gonna go ahead and get started with our Pledge of Allegiance offered by Councilmember Soto, followed by immunication by Councilmember Nelson. Everybody please stand. We ask or determinate or what we're all key. Thank you very much. So we're gonna go on to public comments. Um citizens are now invited to comment on issues within the jurisdiction of the Visaya City Council. The council asks that you keep your comments concise and positive, creative criticism presented with appropriate courtesy is welcome. The city does not tolerate disruptive behaviors in our meetings. The council is considered a limited public forum, which means the council can regulate the time, place, and manner of speech. Speakers' comments during public comments must be limited to matters within the council's authority, generally referred to as within the council's subject matter jurisdiction. If a speaker's comments are not related to council's subject matter jurisdiction, the presiding officer will rule the speaker out of order. The speaker will not be ruled out of order because of disagreement with the content of their speech. Um please step up to the podium and inform a line. And those who are calling in, if you can raise your digital hand now and or dial star nine on your telephone to indicate you wish to speak. And at the appropriate time, star six to unmute yourself. Uh, please begin your comments by stating and spelling your name and providing your city of residence. Each speaker tonight will be allowed three minutes to speak. Uh, we'll go ahead and start public comments with everybody who who is here in the room. Uh good evening, Jim Raves Vaiselia. Uh last week on the first of October, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma ruled on a case involving the flock cameras. And the arrest that followed from that incident was uh ruled inappropriate. The judge had quite a bit to say on the flock systems, and I'm not gonna repeat all of it. But it did say that the court finds that because the ALPR system, the deputy used to search the arrestees' historical location information included, intruded, excuse me, on her reasonable expectation of privacy in the whole of her physical movements. It was a search under the Fourth Amendment. And this is the case. This case is one of the first to so rule. Other courts have ruled differently. And this case is not particularly uh doesn't um is not binding on other cases, but uh I expect that there will be more rulings similar to this in the future. On a local level, on September 10th, I requested information on Flock derived cases in Visalia from January 4th, 25 through what is that? January, February, March, April, May 29th, 26th. There were 123 incidents of successfully investigated cases or arrests that involved the use of flock cameras. Now, in that time period, using the uh what seems like a consistent number from the transparency page of 350,000 unique plate reads each month. That ends up being 5,950,000 plate reads for 123 incidents. That's zero zero, I'm sorry, 0.0020, 67% success rate for those number of uh images for our system. For our system, the city didn't buy anything.