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... Flock has drawn criticism in Connecticut about privacy concerns related to its public safety products, specifically its automated license plate readers. CT Insider reported in February that out-of-state agencies were searching local police departments' license plate data for immigration enforcement.

With the public eye on Flock's license plate camera technology, police officials have said the drone program is a vital tool that is often misunderstood.

So what, exactly, would the drones do?

"The drone's purpose is not surveillance, it's first response," Middletown Chief of Police Erik Costa told CT Insider on Wednesday. ...

@#1 ... The drone's purpose is not surveillance ...

Perhaps initially the drones won't be used for surveillance.

But what might occur when the state is full of these Flock drones?

Mission creep?