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A mayoral candidate and longtime Dumfries councilman demanded to know where attendees lived during a public town hall on license-plate cameras Thursday night — then told people from outside the tiny town to stop weighing in.

Councilman Brian K. Fields, who is running against Mayor Derrick R. Wood, interrupted the discussion on Flock Safety’s automated license plate readers and called for a show of hands from people who actually live inside the incorporated Town of Dumfries.


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Chair-at-Large Deshundra Jefferson said Prince William County will schedule a work session on license plate readers, red-light cameras, and who can access the footage.

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The Dumfries Town Council voted 4-2 to keep newly installed Flock license-plate readers dark, halt any new data collection and send the program back for public engagement before the cameras can go live.

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