“Privacy controls to enable certain vehicles to ‘opt-out‘ of being captured” 🤔 "Time to find out if he was lying to the Sussex County Sheriff’s Office, or if for some reason there is a two-tiered #surveillance system where normal citizens don’t fall under ‘certain vehicles‘" #deflock #flock #alpr

Jon Padfield's upcoming 'Brushfires of Freedom Tour' "A live presentation related to #privacy issues from #Flock cameras popping up all over the country to #ClearForce tracking employees in real time 24/7 to #Palantir compiling dossiers on literally everyone in the country." BrushfiresTour.com

A $1 contract with a multi-billion dollar #surveillance tech company? 🤔 "it is easy to extrapolate that LAPD does not need to assign a dollar amount to the contract with #Flock because they would be paying with an even more valuable asset: the public’s data." www.eff.org/deeplinks/20... #deflock

"How we’re organizing to get #FLOCK out of our communities" The alpr.watch website was supposed to automate this, but it doesn't look like it's reliable enough (yet). In the meantime, this is a great crowdsourced alternative! ✅ Source: imginn.com/reel/DZQUaVF... #deflock #surveillance #alpr

Talk w/ Jason Hunyar on #Flock push-back in #Dunwoody, GA "[It's] not just about one city. It is about how #surveillance technology can spread across the country before the public ever has a real debate about consent, oversight, #privacy, cybersecurity, and the Fourth Amendment." #deflock #alpr

Some good discussion in this episode! 🎙️ "a number of communities in #Wisconsin have decided to stop using AI-powered law enforcement cameras. We talk with a reporter about the developments and a #surveillance expert about the legal and ethical dilemmas the cameras introduce." #deflock #alpr

Here's the recording of the webinar launching the "Solidarity Over Surveillance" campaign on Wednesday, June 3. 👀 "Corporate and government #surveillance violates our constitutional rights — and policymakers must put a stop to it." #SOS #privacy

Just 3 days after a council meeting where they promised to stop using them for demonstration projects, Brian Bernard, VP of Flock's Product Platform, shared the #Dunwoody network with "Flock City PD - Law Enforcement Demo", "Flock Safety - Sales" & "Flock Safety Commercial Sales Demo" ! #deflock 🤥

"The disclosure failure has always done double duty for #Flock: hide what the system collects, and dodge enforcement when no one knows to ask. Now Flock wants it to pull a third shift — wall the undisclosed fields off from the one proceeding built to drag them into the light." #deflock #alpr

The #Ithaca contract with #Flock ended on May 23, but the cameras have yet to Flock Off! "It was warrantless mass #surveillance. So today we are here to simply cover them up, not to destroy or damage anything, but to cover them… to protect our community" - Anne Johnson #deflock #alpr

"The disclosure failure has always done double duty for #Flock: hide what the system collects, and dodge enforcement when no one knows to ask. Now Flock wants it to pull a third shift — wall the undisclosed fields off from the one proceeding built to drag them into the light." #deflock #alpr

Same issues, different logo! "Unlike in other municipalities, no residents spoke out in favor of or against the #Flock cameras at Tuesday's meeting. The five-person town board decided to end their deal with Flock, which was set to expire next summer, and to enter into a new agreement with #Axon."

On 6/1 #Issaquah City Council approved a resolution to accept the DOJ grant funding *without* #Flock cameras! ✅ This also included a policy adoption requirement before further city action on #ALPR technology (and it will return). Great work by 'No Flock in Issaquah' ! 🏆 #deflock #surveillance

⚠️ Government spying violates our most basic rights! Solidarity Over Surveillance is a new multi-state effort to protect our basic privacy and civil liberties. 🌐 solidarityoversurveillance.com Join their webinar this week to learn more 🗓️ Wed, June 3 (12pm PT, 3pm ET) Register: bit.ly/fpsossocial

#Flock cameras are everywhere across #Texas! "Cities and counties are tapping a little-known grant program to expand Flock's reach across Texas. Join us for a digital webinar to learn the dirty details." 🗓️ June 2nd, at 7pm CST Register at: tinyurl.com/flockintexas #deflock #surveillance #alpr

False accusations of "loitering" by an AI surveillance camera - what a world we live in! 😩 "They are sold to retailers as a cheaper alternative to a guard, but they cannot tell a shoplifter from a man waiting on his fiancée."

⚠️ Government spying violates our most basic rights! Solidarity Over Surveillance is a new multi-state effort to protect our basic privacy and civil liberties. 🌐 solidarityoversurveillance.com Join their webinar this week to learn more 🗓️ Wed, June 3 (12pm PT, 3pm ET) Register: bit.ly/fpsossocial

"When police and salespeople trot out cherry-picked cases to argue that a mass #surveillance technology is an ‘important‘ tool, they obfuscate that it's a convenient shortcut around due process." - "residency verification" - "employment" - "background check" - "music" NoALPRs.com 🚫 #deflock #alpr

Victory in Fitchburg, WI! 🏆 "The Common Council of Fitchburg voted unanimously Tuesday to discontinue its contract with #Flock Safety" The current plan is to terminate the contract within 120 days (by September 23), but they could be deactivated before then. #deflock #surveillance #alpr

A new lawsuit against #Flock cameras in #Boulder, CO! "This is the kind of dragnet #surveillance that turns every neighborhood into a checkpoint and every commute into a serious violation of privacy rights. The #Colorado Constitution does not permit it and we intend to put a stop to it." #deflock

“You wine and dine them, take them on golf trips, teach them how to write grants, and then you give them a job after they retire. Then, they go and sell contracts to other police departments, and who are they going to listen to? Other police who have used this technology.” #deflock #surveillance

An update from #Redmond City Council President Melissa Stuart via email! ✅ "At the conclusion of this week’s briefing, Council gave unanimous direction to schedule action on the #Flock contract. It will likely be scheduled for our June 16 business meeting." 🗓️ 06/16 ⏳ #deflock #surveillance #alpr

🧵 Updates from the 5/26 #Redmond City Council meeting on the #Flock #ALPR grant funding... The finance department found no compliance or audit concerns and no need to return funds unless we get a refund from the vendor. Everything was spent as intended, so we're all good! 🥳 1/3

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

🧵 Updates from the 5/26 #Redmond City Council meeting on the #Flock #ALPR grant funding... The finance department found no compliance or audit concerns and no need to return funds unless we get a refund from the vendor. Everything was spent as intended, so we're all good! 🥳 1/3

⚠️ The patent #Flock holds does not describe a license plate reader, but a system to: - Track and profile human beings - Create "fingerprint" data for every object detected - Build a unified trajectory across time and space - Generate automatic alerts - Integrate with drones #deflock #surveillance

🚨 This is completely outrageous!! "The company anticipates the plans will receive resistance from communities that already have school buses with BusPatrol cameras installed" They would be correct! "The reason for turning buses into #surveillance vehicles is to generate more revenue" WTF! #alpr

⚠️ The patent #Flock holds does not describe a license plate reader, but a system to: - Track and profile human beings - Create "fingerprint" data for every object detected - Build a unified trajectory across time and space - Generate automatic alerts - Integrate with drones #deflock #surveillance

A poignant reminder that the world in which you grow up is considered "normal" to you. Do really we want ubiquitous mass surveillance from AI cameras, ALPRs and drones to become the new normal for subsequent generations?

#Flock cameras are everywhere across #Texas! "Cities and counties are tapping a little-known grant program to expand Flock's reach across Texas. Join us for a digital webinar to learn the dirty details." 🗓️ June 2nd, at 7pm CST Register at: tinyurl.com/flockintexas #deflock #surveillance #alpr

We've seen this a few times already. They're all the same! "The cameras did not go away. The license plate reading did not go away. The #surveillance infrastructure did not go away. The name on the contract changed. The public stopped paying attention. And #Axon picked up another city." #deflock

An interesting interview with James Fletes who has been investigating AI #surveillance and #Flock cameras in #Conroe, TX. #deflock #alpr

Interview with Eric Fowler about the growing resistance to #Flock cameras in #Arizona and legislation to limit #ALPR #surveillance. "There's a certain set of steps that tend to keep happening. The cameras are introduced by some kind of manner that doesn't need a public comment." #deflock

Albany City Council is voting on whether to turn Flock cameras back on. We need community members to PACK THE ROOM and show that Albany residents do not want expanded mass surveillance in our community. RSVP: https://loom.ly/aE27BXs Read more about the issue here: https://loom.ly/NZGU8e4

"Local movements to rid city streets of AI-powered #surveillance cameras and Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR) networks used by law enforcement are growing rapidly amid scandals, mounting #privacy concerns, and public backlash to AI and mass surveillance" NoALPRs.com 🚫 #deflock #alpr

"Whether this 💩 is in your city now or not, now is the time when you need to contact your local politicians and ask them where they stand on government #surveillance. And then very persistently let them know where *you* stand on it." #deflock #alpr

"Whether this 💩 is in your city now or not, now is the time when you need to contact your local politicians and ask them where they stand on government #surveillance. And then very persistently let them know where *you* stand on it." #deflock #alpr

Please make a quick call (TIME SENSITIVE) to stop Flock from surveilling Americans!! Script in first comment.

⚠️ Now is a very good time to contact your representative – whether or not they're on the committee – and ask them to support the amendment. Let them know we don't want #ALPR #surveillance! 🚫 🗓️ Due: Thursday, May 21 at 9AM (tomorrow!) #deflock

"Conditioning that funding on a ban of the technology would, in practical effect, force any state, county, or municipality that takes federal highway money (essentially all of them) to either remove the cameras or restructure their use around tolling alone." #deflock #surveillance #alpr

@404media.co covering this! "Councilmember Jeff Flowers, a staunch #Flock supporter, said that if people in the town wanted privacy then the city council should basically ban all technology, essentially calling people who did not want government #surveillance hypocrites." #deflock #alpr 🤡

"Gifts from Police Foundations and Wealthy Donors" "Police can beam into 2,700 private cameras posted around the city and watch footage from a growing fleet of 93 drones. The total cost came to $9.4 million, all paid by Larsen." #surveillance

"for nearly three years, officers have been adding entries - most of them permanent, almost none documented - to private watchlists connected to a national #surveillance network, in the one neighborhood that is, by a wide margin, the most heavily Black in the county." #deflock #alpr

Victory in Menominee, MI! 🏆 One was camera activated w/o approval! 😩 "motion to approve an ordinance to activate #Flock Cameras in the city of #Menominee failed unanimously 8 to 0 on Monday evening. In addition, the city council voted to unanimously cancel the contract with Flock." #deflock #alpr

"for nearly three years, officers have been adding entries - most of them permanent, almost none documented - to private watchlists connected to a national #surveillance network, in the one neighborhood that is, by a wide margin, the most heavily Black in the county." #deflock #alpr

Great report! "no city hall meeting, no debate, and no public explanation about the long-term costs, legal obligations, or privacy concerns connected to the system. By the time residents learned the cameras existed, the contracts had already been signed." #deflock #mountvernon #surveillance #alpr

Using lower level retail thefts to justify mass #surveillance infrastructure. This, in turn, adds to the network effect and further entrenches the technology! "If this sounds like state-funded asset protection for your depressing local shopping mall, that's probably by design" #deflock #alpr

It's hard to imagine how the narrative around cities "owning their data" fits in with this. NoALPRs.com 🚫 #deflock #surveillance #alpr #4a

"This is not installed by some untouchable, shadowy cabal in Washington. This was approved by your mayor, your city council, your county commissioners, your police chiefs & county sheriffs. They made the decision to use your tax dollars to turn your home town into a #surveillance state." #deflock

Join Renton Residents & provide testimony at Renton City Council meeting Monday at 7pm. Speak/email why ALPR cameras need to continue to be shutdown. Or you can also address the Renton Police Chief's statement on facebook on Friday, May 15th. Note: Email today before Monday's meeting at 7pm. ✊️👊