“Cheap, ubiquitous and always on, cameras are uniquely useful targets. Poorly secured feeds can reveal where officials live, how convoys move and who walked into which building when. And new AI tools can turn that flood of footage into something searchable and operationally useful.”

Now unlocked: Mariame Kaba @prisonculture.bsky.social & Andrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social on how to understand the spectacular violence of Trump’s ICE surges as an extension of the violence of everyday policing, and why to abolish ICE we must abolish the police soundcloud.com/deathpanel/a...

I interviewed with WNYC's On the Media about what is happening to trans people in the United States. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

The problem of surveillance is bigger than Flock Safety. Join us on 4/15 for a webinar to learn more about why Flock Safety is just a starting point for challenging the surveillance apparatus around us. Please register at tinyurl.com/biggerthanflock

The way forward won't be building hardened publicly owned data centers, it will be giving public money to defend private data centers. Opposition to data centers becomes a threat to national security, punishable by law of course.

New from SASSI: "DHS Has Sown Seeds of Authoritarianism Since Its Founding" sassisouth.org/projects/dhs...

BlueLeaks 2.0 (91.53 GB) BlueLeaks 2.0 contains millions of submissions and tips about alleged crimes and terrorist acts. The data comes from P3, which is used by intelligence, law enforcement, and schools. ddosecrets.org/article/blue... Help us keep publishing: donorbox.org/ddosecrets

New from SASSI: "DHS Has Sown Seeds of Authoritarianism Since Its Founding" sassisouth.org/projects/dhs...

Everyone, let me introduce to you the largest investor in Flock Safety.

To be clear, none of what has been reported about how police use Flock Safety and other ALPRs is "misuse." Police are using these tools as they were designed to be used. urbanmilwaukee.com/2026/03/15/p...

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I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out: www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

If you haven't, we would recommend reviewing the recent updates Flock made to its terms of service. Might be worth asking your elected officials if they have seen these updates. haveibeenflocked.com/news/terms-f...

“The University of Wisconsin-Madison Academic Staff Assembly passed a resolution on Monday calling for UWPD to end their contract with Flock Safety and publish all other contracts with surveillance technology companies, like Motorola Safeties and Rhombus.”

Scoop: DHS ousted multiple privacy officers at CBP after they questioned orders to purposely mislabel records about government surveillance to prevent their release under FOIA.

The Atlanta Police Department is doing the Lord's work. Included in the Homeland Security Unit's report about the April 2023 Stop Cop City "Week of Resiliency" are a number of events with national security concerns, including a bake sale. Cupcakes are known to be a telltale sign of terrorism.

“Axon was sued by shareholders last month after rejecting a transparency proposal asking the policing technology firm to disclose its political spending strategy and make transparent all direct and indirect political contributions.”

What's fun about this is that the continued existence of the LAPD also "undercuts the city's promise as a haven for immigrants, those seeking gender-affirming care and other vulnerable groups."

Discovered because of anti-surveillance activist run haveibeenflocked.com

Flock continues to take hits across the country. Flock is not an anomaly. We need to place the same level of scrutiny on all vendors and the police and corporations who use these tools. Surveillance isn't safety. atlpresscollective.com/2026/02/25/d...

The growing movement to cancel Flock Safety contracts across the country is great. We need to remember that Flock is one of many ALPR vendors and we need to oppose all of them. If we're not careful, we're going to dismantle Flock only to have Axon or Motorola take their place.

Now unlocked: we speak with Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Craig Gilmore about the rapid escalation of police forces and carceral logics on US streets and why abolition is the only way soundcloud.com/deathpanel/t...

“Meta’s internal memo said the political tumult in the US was good timing for the feature’s release. ‘We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.’”

We can win. The future doesn't have to be a surveillance & AI dystopia. The future will not be fascist. We can abolish DHS, the fusion center network, and all police. www.theverge.com/news/878447/...

Today in @thenation.com, originally entitled No Quick Fixes for Fascism www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border Join @harshawalia.bsky.social, @silkys13.bsky.social, & @reallandsend.bsky.social of @deathpanel.bsky.social for a discussion on the brutal enforcement of immigration policing in Minneapolis and beyond. Thursday at 7 PM ET events.haymarketbooks.org/events/hayma...

Knoxville is following a national pattern by switching to Axon from Flock for ALPRs. Axon is selling their product as a solution to the problems of Flock. The problem is that ALPRs and the business of mass data collection & sharing is dangerous, no matter the vendor. www.wbir.com/article/news...

The Durham City Council decided against signing a contract with Peregrine aka Palantir-lite, a company who sells a predictive policing tool according to the City's own assessment of Peregrine. www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...

An interview with Donna Mae, a longtime resident of Minneapolis and registered nurse speaking about the community resistance to ICE / CBP in their city, the legacy of the George Floyd Uprising and mutual aid thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2026/02...

Resisting the Surveillance Systems Behind ICE’s Kidnappings with Ed Vogel of @sassisouth.bsky.social millennialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/resisting-th...

As if we needed another example that the courts are not going to protect people. The courts are going to protect the interests of corporations and the state. www.flocksafety.com/blog/federal...

Scoop: Police have recently been ordered to be "as vague as permissible" in the Flock system about the searches they do in a message shared with several major police departments around the country by the FBI. Actively avoiding transparency is now the strategy: www.404media.co/police-told-...

Worth the time

The reason Nashville is one of the only cities in the entire country that doesn't have license plate readers is because of community members fighting like hell over the past 5ish years to protect our neighbors. No matter how exhausted we are, we will never, ever give up this fight.

Robin D.G. Kelley www.bostonreview.net/articles/ren...

The Raleigh Police Department now has Starchase and were able to acquire the technology because "the department received a boost from a donation by the Raleigh Police Department Foundation" hoodline.com/2026/01/rale...

A private entity building the local surveillance apparatus: "With nearly a million dollars from a Savannah College of Art and Design grant, the Savannah City Council approved the purchase of drones, emergency phones and cameras at an end-of-the-year meeting." www.savannahnow.com/story/news/l...

Join SASSI on Wednesday, February 4th at 8pm ET for, "Simple Steps to Melt ICE." This is the latest session in our ongoing community safety series. On January 8th, @404media.co published a story about how ICE is using a tool called Webloc.

Call to Action for Durham! The Durham City Council is currently considering building a Real Time Crime Center. This surveillance hub won't make Durham safer, it will only intensify the criminalization of Durham's Black, brown, immigrant, queer, trans, and activist communities, among other folks.

We honor the courage of Manuel Teran, known to fellow forest defenders as Tortuguita, who sacrificed all in defense of Weelaunee Forest three years ago today. 🖤 And we give thanks for those who responded to Tortuguita's murder with a wave of fierce direct action. 🏴 crimethinc.com/LivinginanEa...

"The fight in New Orleans is one that every city will eventually face. New Orleans is the laboratory for mass surveillance experiments that eventually may spread to the rest of the country." truthout.org/articles/bat...

New feature on HaveIBeenFlocked.com The list of all agencies searching Flock's national database who also have 287g agreements. haveibeenflocked.com/ice-287g

According to John Brown over at the FBI office in Atlanta, HaveIBeenFlocked.com "poses significant officer safety risk to law enforcement personnel." Surprise, surprise but the FBI doesn't like anyone interrogating what cops do, especially when it comes to their surveillance toys like Flock.

The Huffman Independent School District in Texas contracts with Flock Safety for ALPRs & shares their data directly to the Texas Department of Public Safety. From Nov.: "Texas DPS troopers will have immigration enforcement powers under new agreements with ICE" www.dallasnews.com/news/immigra...

This bizarre email that Flock Safety sent to its customers in December has made the rounds. What we haven't seen discussed is the odd inclusion of a hyperlink to this story: theoutline.com/post/6131/sn... Garrett's feelings were hurt in 2018 and he holds grudges.

There's a pattern here with police using ALPR systems & data to stalk people. It's easy to do and more common than we know. After countless examples of this, it continues because it cannot actually be prevented. ALPRs are dangerous. ALPRs make us all less safe. thegeorgiagazette.com/featured/for...

"Building up an RTCC would not only be a step backwards, but upend all the progress we’ve made." www.durhamdispatch.com/post/real-ti...