A Carbon County man plans to continue his push to have Flock cameras that he said are installed in the Lehighton area removed.

Noah Bryfogle, of Palmerton, addressed Lehighton Borough Council on Monday about the topic and discussed the automated license plate readers that photograph passing vehicles.

Bryfogle said there were at least 18 that he knows of in Carbon County, about 15 of which are in the Lehighton area.

He noted there are two cameras on borough land, one of each are run by Mahoning and Franklin townships.

Bryfogle said the borough has license agreements for both of these cameras, and urged the borough to rid itself of them.

He told borough council that the borough’s cooperation with this matter would be huge.

After the meeting, Bryfogle said he has been filing Right-to-Know public records requests to select municipalities of Carbon County (Lehighton, Franklin Township, Mahoning Township, Weissport, Jim Thorpe, Weatherly) to find out about their ALPR systems and how they are being used.

“Lehighton borough does not have any contracts with Flock, but they have license agreements allowing Franklin and Mahoning townships to install cameras on a couple of their poles,” Bryfogle said. “They denied my request for their ALPR policy/audit logs, claiming these records do not exist.

“Franklin Township denied the majority of my request with an improperly formatted denial,” said Bryfogle, who added he has since filed an appeal. “They did provide an order form and list of officials who have access to their Flock system.

“Mahoning Township handed over invoices and payments, but the majority of my first request and entirety of my second request were denied. They cited security exemptions as their reason for not providing camera locations, a master contract, and license agreements. Their responses have been largely abstract with denials that don’t cite the proper legal exemptions, and I have since appealed those requests as well.

“Jim Thorpe said no responsive records exist, meaning the cameras in their borough are privately paid, not paid by the municipality.”

Bryfogle said each township is paying roughly $3,000 per camera annually, plus installation and maintenance.

He said Mahoning Township had a grant for their first year, costing the township $11,250. The second year increased to $15,000, then the contract was renewed for $18,000, Bryfogle said.

He said that Mahoning Township’s board of supervisors has a meeting at 6 p.m. Wednesday “that I plan on attending to raise my concerns with how the township is handling public records and their ALPR system.”

Bryfogle has started up a website at https://deflockcarbon.org/progress that he said contains all of the public records he has received, as well as the contents of his requests.