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"Police beats that had ShotSpotter sensors saw an approximately 32% decrease in homicides," after Shotspotter was removed. That's a larger drop than in areas that never had ShotSpotter. Surveillance isn't safety. news.wttw.com/2025/12/29/s...

Worth re-upping this video about a similar vulnerability exposed in one of Flock's major competitors, Motorola Solutions. The many problems with Flock are common throughout the industry. Flock isn't the problem, surveillance is: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dUn...

Reminder that we are a year into aggressive ICE raids and concentration camps, and there’s not a single example of local cops protecting people against this violence, kidnapping, or death.

COMMUNITY REQUEST: We’re raising funds to cover $78 in monthly recurring operational expenses. Please chip in if you’re able. Venmo.com/divestspd

If your city is suspending or cancelling #Flock, remember that "switching to another #ALPR vendor" is NOT the solution. Dragnet bulk data collection is the core problem. #Flock is just one particularly egregious example. Mass #surveillance does not make any of us safer! 🚫

New Orleans Resists ICE Invasion Despite Surveillance and State Repression truthout.org/articles/new...

Example of how police intentionally make audit logs useless to block the public from seeing how the cops are using mass surveillance wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/11/24/w...

“I was being watched and tracked.”

NEW: an activist has been charged for allegedly wiping a Google Pixel phone before CBP could search it. Search was by a secretive CBP Tactical Terrorism Response Team, which ACLU says "interrogate innocent travelers." We uploaded the indictment here: www.404media.co/man-charged-...

Fusion center and mass surveillance used to identify women for dancing on a cop car. Fusion centers are one of the ways local cops & Feds work together & share data. www.cleveland19.com/2025/07/11/r...

Amazon was caught stealing over $3.7M from thousands of workers in Seattle. Its punishment: Pay what it stole and a $20k fine. www.geekwire.com/2025/amazon-...

If you see someone living outside and it’s cold, tell them they can tell a bus driver they are going to a cold weather shelter and they should not be required to pay fare. Here’s info from KCRHA about cold weather plans across King County. kcrha.org/news-winter-...

This is what fusion centers do, their entire purpose is to make it easier for local cops & feds to share information.

Most of us have no idea how bad it is inside ICE detention centers because they have kept it hidden. Then a truth teller shows up and says it plain. The conditions are filthy. The treatment is inhumane. The abuse is Systematic and routine.

Is Seattle ready for the World Cup 2026? Voices rally with legit social and environmental issues. 🏆 Read more: theevergreenecho.org... @protectourpitch206 @centipedekris.bsky.social #evergreenecho #echothearts #theecho #arts #pnw

🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨 We're suing the city of San Jose for its pervasive ALPR surveillance program. With nearly 500 ALPRs, the SJPD allows its officers to search millions of records, all without a warrant. These unconstitutional searches must be stopped. Read the complaint: www.eff.org/cases/siren...

Surveillance won't help us. We see this all the time from police cameras "malfunctioning" at convenient times for the police to police departments, & prosecutors, ignoring surveillance that exonerates people

Another essential @bennjordan.bsky.social video on #Flock! "Privacy is a form of power that increases your control over your own destiny. And right now, you're at a junction where you're made to be so scared of your neighbors that you might be willing to give up that power." #deflock #surveillance

More ALPR vendors sharing data with ICE. It isn't just Flock that shares data, its all of them

SPD stores all license plate scans for 90 days www.cascadiadaily.com/2025/nov/13/...

This happens fairly frequently because ALPRs aren't very accurate. www.denver7.com/news/local-n... www.aclu.org/news/privacy...

This is the department City Council & Harrell gave a massive surveillance camera network to. SPD having a mass surveillance network is bad for the people of Seattle even if ICE somehow never gets access to it

A recent UW report on data security issues with automatic license plate readers has been creating waves among law enforcement agencies using the technology, including Lynnwood, Redmond, and Stanwood. Other cities remain committed, despite the risks. Story: www.theurbanist.org/2025/11/13/w...

WA state never stopped sharing drivers' license data with ICE

Another case of ICE accessing local policy surveillance data in violation of multiple laws. santacruzlocal.org/2025/11/07/i...

"The bottom line is that the public simply can't count on these kinds of logs to be a reliable check against the enormous power that its mass surveillance system is placing in the hands of law enforcement." No to mass surveillance! 🚫 Cancel #Flock! 🚫 #deflock #surveillance #alpr #flocksafety

"[R]easonable suspicion now means the police stop the person...and [that person] has to prove to them that [they] didn't commit a crime to be released."

"It’s pretty bold of Harrell to call this a completed contract when in reality, huge chunks of this agreement remain up in the air." @hannahkrieg.bsky.social @divestspd.bsky.social www.theburnerseattle.com/post/city-ce...

An action against surveillance for those living in Redmond:

HOLY FUCKING BASED: Eddie Lin proposes REPEALING sales tax hike and replacing it with capital gains, a tax that doesn't screw over poor people. www.theburnerseattle.com/post/council...

“Ring’s new partnership with Flock shows that the company is more interested in contributing to mounting authoritarianism than servicing the specific needs of their customers,” EFF’s @MGuariglia.bsky.social told @ArsTechnica.com. arstechnica.com/gadgets/202...

ICE accessed license plate readers at 30 WA police agencies, including Renton and Auburn. A month ago, city council voted to expand surveillance despite warnings that something like this would happen.

This was a funding decision by Eugene, they've had years to come up with stable funding for CAHOOTS (non-police response). CAHOOTS was a massive success, a model program, cheap, & operated for 35 years. www.opb.org/article/2025...

My latest on how the 2023 drug law is going in Seattle. It's having a disproportionate impact on Black people, particularly Black men, causing folks to make parallels to the War on Drugs. I also provide updated SODA order numbers (spoiler: the number has gone up).

Not surprising that a mayor expanding mass surveillance of poor people, immigrants, LGBTQIA+ community, & BIPOC communities also violates open records laws to block to public from knowing what he's doing.

At first I was confused as to why Seattle CMs felt the need to pontificate about not cutting public safety and SPD investments since no one is suggesting that. Then I realized they're teeing up for a conversation about cuts after the revenue forecast on Monday.

OUTRAGEOUS: City Council approved the Mayor's sales tax increase knowing full well we already have the highest sales tax in the country and they have a LIST of progressive options to choose from instead www.theburnerseattle.com/post/city-co...

From @wyden.senate.gov, “Abuse of Flock cameras is inevitable, and Flock has made it clear it takes no responsibility to prevent or detect that. For that reason, I must now recommend that communities that have installed Flock cameras reevaluate that decision.” www.404media.co/ice-secret-s...

OPINION: The dangers of increased Seattle police surveillance: A failure of our city council (via @gabitreece.bsky.social) www.dailyuw.com/article/the-...

BREAKING from PP We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens* The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied: Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado www.propublica.org/article/immi... by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

By Enabling Police Surveillance, Elected Officials Fuel Trump’s Agenda truthout.org/articles/by-...

Gov. Newsom vetoes bill restricting use of license plate reader data. The restrictions he vetoed were incredibly mild. www.mercurynews.com/2025/10/09/g...

Stop Surveillance City's October Newsletter is out. Not on our newsletter list? You can read it on our website. stopsurveillancecity.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/s... You can sign up to receive the newsletter by emailing: [email protected]

SPD works with ICE. ICE just has to claim its for a "criminal" matter The recent legislation expanding mass surveillance spelled this out: "While the City cooperates with federal immigration authorities in criminal matters, it does not do so in civil immigration matters except as required by law."

“Even if Flock took a stance on permitted use-cases, a motivated user could simply lie about why they're performing a search." - Even Flock employees admit "guardrails" on how mass surveillance gets used don't protect anyone

Your Ring camera is going to start using facial recognition to further track & record every time you enter & leave your home. The main people your Ring camera surveils are you and your neighbors; mostly you.

“The judge or the prosecutor doesn't know which portions were written by the AI and which portions were written by the officer,” EFF’s @MGuariglia.bsky.social told KPBS News. “It interjects a lot of uncertainty — and a lot of deniability for the officer.” www.kpbs.org/news/public...

Wired - Documents show that ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok and other platforms to target people for deportation. www.wired.com/story/ice-socia...

Charlottesville has joined the list of cities pulling back on police surveillance because no "guardrails" can keep ICE & the feds from getting the data. www.29news.com/2025/06/20/c...