Flock Safety cameras help solve crimes. But who’s watching the watchers?

"But license plate readers aren’t the only tool Flock wants to deploy on our streets. Now, Roanoke is considering expanding its contract with Flock for a system of acoustic sensors that will record human voices."

From www.coloradon.com: #FortCollins City Council weighs canceling Flock or increasing limits and oversight. www.coloradoan.com/story/news/l...

Interesting article about #flock surveillance cameras in Troy, NY which has led to a state of emergency by the city's Republican mayor, who says that they will never come down: https://archive.ph/0NDBO Amazing how private companies are tracking people in the physical world and selling that data […]

Flock Safety has built a network of automatic license plate readers in more than 6,000 communities across the country in recent years. Its system uses AI-enabled cameras to snap photos of every vehicle that passes, creating a digital “fingerprint.”

Victory in Bandera, TX! 🏆 "Bandera City Council voted 3-2 Tuesday night, May 12, to terminate the city’s contract with #Flock Safety Systems following months of public opposition" Be sure to read the long and completely unhinged statement from CM Flowers! 👀 #deflock #surveillance #alpr

⚠️ Yet Langley claims *they* are under coordinated attack! "this isn’t a state official independently weighing in on a public safety issue. The AG has been solicited and briefed by a private #surveillance company’s Vice President to call individual City Council members on their behalf." #deflock

If you live, work or shop in #Issaquah. "While the issue is in front of everyone, residents are asking the council to pass a moratorium on new #ALPR systems until a proper city ordinance with real safeguards is on the books." dash.palform.app/fill/org_0QC... #deflock #surveillance

Your car is being tracked. DeFlock maps 96,752 Automated License Plate Readers across the USA — open-source & community powered. See the cameras near you, learn the privacy risks, and celebrate 67 cities that said NO to mass surveillance. deflock.org

It is a great resource!

Did you know EFF created the Atlas of Surveillance? It's our database mapping police surveillance tech across the U.S.! You can support our work pushing back against surveillance, and get a t-shirt to show support for that work, today: eff.org/spring

The same warrantless surveillance tactics being used in immigration sweeps could be turned against journalists and their sources. Congress should pass the Government Surveillance Reform Act and close the data broker loophole.

Flock Safety has built a network of automatic license plate readers in more than 6,000 communities across the country in recent years. Its system uses AI-enabled cameras to snap photos of every vehicle that passes, creating a digital “fingerprint.”

In a seven-page lawsuit, petitioners claim that Mantello had abused her power by declaring an emergency over Flock Safety not being paid.

"Mayor circumvents the will of the people and declares a state of emergency to pay a private company to continue surveillance of her town." Fixed it for you.

Tell Atlanta, Flock Off!

Mayo Clinic's "Ambient Listening" has been around for a couple of years, but clearly not all patients know their interactions with nurses are being passively recorded and processed by AI.

The McFarland Police Department will not move forward with a planned purchase of automated license plate reader technology from Flock Safety.

"The Flock Safety patent also states that it will use neural networks to identify and track humans, and then filter them into searchable databases using a person’s age, clothing type, gait/posture, gender, height, race, and weight." Does that sound like a license plate? #Flock #Surveillance #Tech

"DeFlockCentralCoast recently launched an online toolkit of resources, called “how to start de-Flocking”. That sounds very useful. Keep it up everyone!

"In this context, Flock’s system is depicted as monitoring for sounds such as gunfire, glass breaking, or calls for help and then sending an approximate location to police in real time." If they can hear calls for help, they can hear everything else too. Enough is Enough. noalprs.com

Perhaps Verona did start something! Dane County, Monona, and now McFarland have opted to do without Flock camera surveillance systems. www.mcfarland.wi.us/m/newsflash/...

You can't talk about the "program's intent" while ignoring the reality of how these systems actually work, the dangers/abuses it brings & the constitutional rights it tramples on. ALPRs are mass #surveillance infrastructure where *every* vehicle is logged "just in case." #deflock #renton #alpr #4a

Come join us!

@ai-everyday.bsky.social writes #flock has launched Raven—microphones alongside its cameras. They can detect human voices and record conversations. Photo is of our rally with @the-wolves.bsky.social on May 15 in #paloalto. #gettheflockout #flockoffnow #flocksafety is BS

"Opposition to mass #surveillance is not a left-right issue ... government should not be able to build a warrantless database of law-abiding citizens’ movements and later search it at will. This is a direct assault on our constitutional rights." #deflock #alpr #4a

2 whole county is now Flock-free. When everyday people come out and fill the meetings, mass surveillance starts to lose its power! Small towns staying free, let’s keep that spirit alive!

This is what community victory looks like in NC! 👇🚫📸 Pittsboro Commissioners just voted 4-1 to end their Flock Safety contract early and remove the spy cameras. With Chatham County already dropping theirs last month, the 1

It's working..keep it up!

Local governments across Wisconsin have been ending their agreements with the surveillance company Flock Safety. “If police chiefs are bailing on it, that really shows momentum,” says the mayor of Verona, which ended its Flock contract last year.

Will we be installing extra cameras in children's rec centers so Flock execs can watch little kids do gymnastics or is that just a special deal they have with Dunwoody, Georgia?

"Nationally, and often involving law enforcement officers, ALPR systems have been used for personal, non-work-related tracking, including stalking ex-partners. " Think about how many we don't know about. www.noalprs.com Your life shouldn't be searchable.

“Sure, the headline changes with a slightly better company. But the innate issues around ALPRs don’t. You still have similar cameras, similar databases, similar mass, warrantless tracking. You just have a different logo on the contract.” Spot On, Jon McCray-Jones ACLU Wisconsin noalprs.com

Police using face recognition technology are prioritizing low-level crimes over privacy rights, EFF’s Beryl Lipton told @thenvindy.com. We don't want a society "where we expect that just because we went into public, a police officer is going to get to know… or be able to search that in real time."

"Technology that is designed for white faces, Schwarz said, risks perpetuating biases against people of color." @nyclu.org @daniel-schwarz.bsky.social #FacialRecognition #BanTheScan www.localsyr.com/news/local-n...

"Despite Flock’s marketing materials as a technological advancement for public safety, evidence over just the past few months indicates that the powerful technology, accessible by hundreds of different agencies at any given time, poses a massive threat to regular citizens." #deflock #surveillance

Want to show your neighborhood that they are being tracked?

"The department’s school resource officer, Lindsay Brozich, walked up to the podium and slapped her badge down, leaving it there as she walked away." Quitting and having her Flock interview at the same time. National Week of Action Against ALPRs - noalprs.com #trending #viral #fyp #Privacy #AI

Yay! More tax dollars being spent! /s These politicians are wild. They defend Flock to the bitter end. It's almost as if they are scared, but why would they be scared of a giant mass surveillance company..oh I see #SurveillanceState #4thAmendment #ALPR #CivilLiberties #KnowYourRights #DataPrivacy

"Vallejo’s Measure P Oversight Committee recommended spending more than $300,000 in city sales tax revenue on Flock Safety license plate reader technology, but recommended against using it to fund police body and dash cameras." You see what they did there? www.noalprs.com

Read this council members letter to his constituents "Fine, lets go back to the 1880" and take down all cameras and phones in a childish response to losing a vote on Flock Cameras. www.noalprs.com

"On Monday, May 11th, the City Council officially filed a lawsuit against Mayor Mantello. The suit argues that, not only did she abuse her powers by declaring a public safety emergency, but that she improperly authorized a $78,000 payment to Flock behind the city council's back." www.noalprs.com

Hey Everyone! Thank you so much for following us and all of your efforts in making sure our 4th amendment rights are being respected. I would like for you to check out the Official DeFlock bsky @deflock.org for more update to news and events. Thank you everyone! www.noalprs.com

Read the council members childish letter in response to losing a vote on a vendor. "• A Modest Proposal for Total Municipal and Commercial Decommissioning: A total termination of all internet services and electronic record-keeping. We are going back to 1880, paper ledgers and cash only."

A second class action against Home Depot #Flock cameras! ✅ "The new lawsuit challenges the common assumption that private corporations can surveil their customers and others without limitation. As it should, because that assumption is plainly incorrect." #deflock #homedepot #surveillance #alpr

‘The U.S. is spending hundreds of millions of dollars on tools that give federal agents easy access to the home and workplace addresses of American citizens, their social-media accounts, vehicle information, flights, law-enforcement records & other personal information’ reason.com/2026/05/06/s...

@deflock.bsky.social Hi, who runs this account?

They are not just reading plates. They are building searchable records of where people go, who they visit, and how communities move. National Week of Action Against ALPRs August 16–22, 2026 Register: www.noalprs.com #NoALPRs #ALPR #Privacy