Wenatchee, WA deactivated their Flock cameras last year As of yesterday, they plan to turn them back on

The Redmond City Council meeting agendas have been posted for next week, but no sign of the Flock contract cancellation vote that was "tentatively scheduled" for July 7 😞

Just realized Patty Murray took office 5 years before I was born Maria Cantwell took office 3 years after I was born In that time they’ve accepted nearly $1M from AIPAC Maybe it’s time for new people?

Last night Mt. Vernon, WA voted to end their Flock surveillance program, joining Edmonds, Lynnwood, and Mountlake Terrace in doing so

#Yakima City Council waited for community members to leave before holding another vote in the final 10 mins to pass the consolidated $250K #Flock contract 5-1 !! 😩 YCA will be there at the meeting on 7/7 at 5:30pm 🗓️ Sign the petition 👉 tinyurl.com/noflockyak #deflock #surveillance #alpr

Tonight: The City of Spokane passes a one year moratorium on data centers in a 7-1 vote

An action item this week for those in Mount Vernon, WA opposing #Flock mass #surveillance. The petition has 83 signatures so far! ✍️ Here's the meeting agenda with the time, location, and live stream options (if you can't make it in person): www.mountvernonwa.gov/AgendaCenter... #deflock #alpr

Seattle City Light is proposing 9.5% rate hikes in both 2027 and 2028, with plans for a new rate class for data centers starting in 2027 This is after council voted for a 1 year pause on data centers. It'll be worth watching whether council approves both the rate increases and new data center rate

Just a reminder: Seattle City Council meeting to pass a moratorium on data centers in Seattle. 2PM.

Victory in #Edmonds, WA! 🏆 "We are canceling the contract and will not be bringing #Flock cameras back to Edmonds anytime soon" - Mayor Mike Rosen The recent story about the FBI seeking warrantless, real-time access was also cited: ⚠️ arstechnica.com/tech-policy/... #deflock #surveillance #alpr

King County Libraries is looking to implement AI to "serve patrons and staff," which includes hiring an "emerging technology administrator." Librarians, not AI, make libraries one of the best public resources. People can join more than 5K in sending letters to "Keep AI Out of Our Libraries!"

Protester v. Bicycle Weekend

if you came to Bluesky to complain about Seattle bike infrastructure, I hope you have a really bad time.

In Burien this morning, two men were snatched by ICE from what appears to be a white work van This occurred 5 minutes away from the ICE Tukwila Field Office

After having turned their Flock cameras back on last month, Renton voted once again to pause their Flock surveillance program

“There is nothing in writing that all helicopters will be able to land. 
We don’t know what that agreement will actually look like or whether (the Laurelhurst council) will follow through.” The Council was slated to meet on Monday, May 11, but postponed the meeting, according to its website.

Do you know how many other agencies your local police department shares #Flock data with? Check out the Network visualizer on FlockHopper: dontgetflocked.com/maps?mode=ne... #deflock #surveillance #alpr

The Laurelhurst Community Council has agreed to end the medical review committee, the group which determines whether patients can land on the Seattle Children’s hospitals roof, or in a parking lot one mile away

There’s a protest this Saturday at 11:30AM against the neighborhood of Laurelhurst for restricting helicopter flights to the children’s hospital because of “noise” It would be a shame if the Belltown Hellcat showed up

⚠️ #Flock is on the agenda in #Tukwila, WA on Monday May 4! 🗓️ "3rd Party Data Privacy and Security Assessment Flock Contract Update & Recommendation" Agenda and presentation slides: ▪️ records.tukwilawa.gov/WebLink/Brow... Recommendation is thoroughly unsurprising. 🙄 #deflock #surveillance #alpr

Sabey Data Centers has scrapped their plans to expand in Seattle. Equinix and Prologis are the two remaining companies seeking to use 249 megawatts of electricity. Seattle council is working on a one-year data center moratorium after 83,000 have been sent to their offices.

3 WA representatives voted with 39 other Democrats to reauthorize warrantless surveillance powers for Trump: • Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-3) • Kim Schrier (WA-8) • Marilyn Strickland (WA-10)

Seattle Children's Hospital has to land half off their helicopters at a helipad located one mile away because the helicopters annoyed the wealthy homeowners When the hospital wanted to build a new surgery building to better serve patients, Laurelhurst also fought against that:

Two homeowners in Seattle have Flock cameras installed on their property and angled toward public sidewalks and roads These cameras are not subject to any public records, so they could be sharing information to virtually anyone with access How creepy of them

Everett, WA has turned their Flock cameras back on Their 81 cameras have detected 530,054 “vehicles” in the last 30 days

Renton, WA has turned their Flock cameras back on, after WA state passed a bill which eliminates the ability for the public to request public records related to Flock. Minimizing public transparency around a private equity backed surveillance system is a step backward

The 3 data center companies looking to use 1/3 of Seattle’s average daily power are Sabey, Prologis, and Equinix. One company has already canceled their plans amid public pushback Sabey also leases office space to ICE in Tukwila

⚠️ #Flock cameras are on the City of #Tukwila agenda on Mon April 20 @ 7PM! Public comments can be made in person (most impactful), via phone or online via Teams: 🗓️ www.tukwilawa.gov/event/city-c... Agenda bill: 📄 records.tukwilawa.gov/WebLink/Elec... #deflock #surveillance #alpr

Wow. In just under 24 hours, the list of people demanding a data center moratorium in Seattle has grown from 4,500 to 37,000

Seattle residents are fighting against 5 potential data centers planning to leech off 1/3 from the grid’s average daily power Over 4,500 have already signed an action letter 👇 actionnetwork.org/letters/no-n...

5 large data centers are being proposed in Seattle. They would use 369 megawatts, which is 1/3 of the electricity Seattle currently uses Seattle City Light declines to identify the four companies. They should hold a public input meeting before making any final decisions.

Stanwood, WA just turned their Flock cameras back on, right as a new state bill blocks the public from accessing records on Flock data. Taxpayer-funded cameras tracking residents? Fine. Residents asking how that data is being used? Suddenly a problem.

I'm at the town hall event on surveillance in Seattle, where Mayor Katie Wilson is being interviewed onstage by the South Seattle Emerald's Florangela Davila. Read and watch along with me!

ICE’s Field Office in Tukwila is a short term detention facility disguising itself as just a “holding room.” After analyzing a FOIA Databse, one entry shows how a woman was held for 100 days. A 1 year old and 79 year old were also held there.

If Governor Ferguson signs SB-6002, it would remove our ability to seek public records for Flock data. We would have no way of knowing how much of our personal data is collected by these private equity funded surveillance systems.

The Puget Sound Energy CEO brought in $9,204,291 in 2025, with $7,809,817 tied to ‘Non-Equity Incentive Plan Compensation’ As your utility rates rise, her salary gets even bigger

Washingtonians found a way to get Flock surveillance data: public records requests. 6 cities, including Mt. Vernon, responded by turning off their cameras. Now the legislature just voted to close that loophole entirely Yesterday, Mt. Vernon voted to keep Flock turned on

Please keep Howard Schultz and his 328-foot, $300 million yacht in your thoughts as he moves across the country to avoid paying a 9.9% tax on annual income over $1M

Chief Lowe with the "no expectation of privacy on a public road" argument. However, being observable in public is NOT the same as law enforcement actively building out a dragnet #surveillance infrastructure to track all of our movements 24/7! Thank you CM Parsi.

PSE is raising electric rates for 1.3 million customers and cutting them for their only “special contract” customer. That customer is Microsoft. Residential: +16.75% Microsoft: -12.49%

In preparation for the light rail, Bellevue has created a new Light Rail Police Unit to “…focus specifically on those challenges that the light rail brings to Bellevue.” This is in addition to Sound Transit security btw

Puget Sound Energy is jacking electric rates 30% even though residential customers only used 0.2% more power from 2024-2025, according to their annual financial statements. Any other PSE customers see their bills spike despite using LESS power?

A bill (HB2515) to regulate Washington State data centers failed to move forward, which included a fee linked to their energy consumption Meanwhile, PSE is proposing to hike electric rates on their residential customers to 16.75% in 2027

I take no AIPAC or correlate money. Let's take down DelBene! Help us out! www.electhunter.com

Norfolk PD was looking at how to spend their marketing budget and thought “hmm what about the in 62 bus in Seattle?”

A reminder that all WA federal representatives and both senators are AIPAC funded except for Jayapal

There’s an emergency protest today (2/28) at Pike Place, 2PM in response to the USA and Israel attacking Iran

Protesters had planned to attend the Hunts Point town council meeting because Mayor John Sabey is a landlord to ICE in Tukwila through the Sabey Corporation. Hunts Point just cancelled this meeting citing “lack of agenda items, a reason not recognized under Washington’s Open Public Meetings Act.

Everett’s mayor just issued new directives in response to future ICE presence: • Officers are instructed to take action if they observe excessive force commited by ICE/CBP • ICE prohibited from entering city owned areas • Everett police are required to record interactions

NEW: Everett pauses Flock surveillance program