Rochester's Select Board has paused its Flock license-plate cameras while the town investigates the system and its contract. After residents packed the Senior Center meeting room on Monday, Oct. 5, the board voted unanimously to suspend use for 30 days, according to The Wanderer.
Rochester turns off its Flock cameras for a month, joining other South Coast towns reconsidering them. After residents spoke against the license-plate readers at its Monday, Oct. 5 meeting, the Select Board halted their use.
The Rochester Select Board met briefly on September 21 and approved the Board of Assessors' recommendation to set the FY2027 property tax rate at $10.62 per thousand dollars of assessed value — just three cents above the current rate.