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Wyoming City Council Work Session September 14, 2026

WKTV Community Media · 9 hours ago

The short version: WKTV Community Media's recording of Wyoming's September 2026 council work session is a reminder that surveillance contracts often get decided in meetings nobody watches.

Our Take

Credit to WKTV Community Media for keeping a camera on local government — work sessions like this one are exactly where decisions about police tech, budgets, and vendor contracts get hashed out before they ever hit a formal vote. These recordings rarely trend, but they're often the only public record of how a council actually arrived at a policy.

We don't have a transcript or agenda breakdown here, so we're not going to guess what Wyoming's council discussed line by line. What we do know is that Flock Safety and other ALPR vendors have been pitching city councils across the country in exactly this kind of low-visibility setting, often bundled with vague language about 'public safety' and 'crime trends' that skips past questions of data retention, access logs, and who else gets to query the network.

If you live in or near Wyoming, the move is to watch the full session yourself and ask your council directly whether license plate readers or similar surveillance tools are on the table. Check our camera map to see what's already been deployed nearby, and use our take-action guide if you want to push back before a work session quietly becomes a signed contract.

This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of WKTV Community Media, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.