Interesting take from @nickaesp.com on the flaws of the recent ruling in the @ij.org lawsuit. Notably around scale and data aggregation from ever expanding #surveillance platform partnerships. #deflock #alpr #fourthamendment #flock #ring

The substitute version of the bill passed out of the Senate yesterday endangers the safety of all Washington residents, but especially vulnerable populations. Tell the House Community Safety Committee that bill must be amended! #SB6002 #WAStateLeg #SocialActionWA #ALPR #SurveillanceCity

⚠️ This is a really important point to get across to your councils. The "DeFlock" term was inspired by the worst offender in the #ALPR space, but alternative vendors provide the same equally problematic products. Mass #surveillance infrastructure is what we are pushing back against! Ban ALPRs! 🚫

⚠️ #Flock is on the Public Safety Committee meeting agenda in Mount Vernon, #WA *TODAY* (Wed, Feb 4) at 6 PM! "Chief Christman - ALPR Discussion" #deflock #mountvernon #surveillance #alpr

In United States v. Jones (2012) SCOTUS held that installing a GPS tracker to a car constitutes a search under the Fourth Amendment and thus requires a warrant. So how is arbitrary collection/retention of our movements via these extremely dense #ALPR dragnets functionally any different? #deflock

Amazon’s Ring and Flock cameras are spying on you. And they share your info with the police and ICE. Join us THIS WEDNESDAY as we break down how these products are used as weapons against our communities. bit.ly/noringxflock

Join Yakima Immigrant Response Network (YIRN) to learn more about Flock camera surveillance. Hear from Phil Neff, Research Coordinator at UW Center for Human Rights followed by a community update from YIRN. Two opportunities to attend: Grandview and Yakima, see flyer for details!

Another day, another #ALPR abuse story! > issuing a BOLO on someone for putting up posters is "both a rejection of the First Amendment, and a really ridiculous misuse of resources." Mass #surveillance infrastructure is a huge problem. Once established, it *will* be repeatedly abused. Ban ALPRs! 🚫

Washington Democrats are on pace to make us the first state to ban surveillance pricing and surge pricing on groceries. But the grocery conglomerates and the tech bros aren't happy, so they want to stop it. Tell your legislators to pass this bill 👉 bit.ly/WA2481

More details on this PR/marketing effort from #Flock. "Flock blasts out a press release with little to no context, creating unnecessary friction between shareholders who simply want a stamp of approval and security teams who want meaningful, long-term fixes." #deflock #surveillance #alpr 💄🐷

Great talk with @profferguson.bsky.social about how data collected by private companies, including from devices in your own home, is so easily weaponized against you and what we should do to protect our civil liberties. #privacy #surveillance #fourthamendment

Mountain View, CA "Effective immediately, all #Flock Safety #ALPR cameras in Mountain View will be turned off. These cameras will remain inactive until our City Council provides further direction about the future of having Flock Safety ALPR cameras in our community." #deflock #surveillance

#Flock demonstrate time and again that they are a completely untrustworthy company; one we should all be demanding gets canceled and removed from our cities ASAP! "I think that they want to keep the cameras up, whether they have permission or not" #deflock #surveillance #alpr 🚫

Denunciemos a #Flock y a #Ring de Amazon por lo que son: redes de vigilancia masiva y criminalización que tienen como blanco a nuestra gente. Únete a nuestros cuatro presentadores expertos el 4 de febrero a las 6pm ET, para nuestra conversación EN VIVO que analizará estos daños. bit.ly/noringxflock

Let’s call out #Flock and Amazon’s #Ring for what they are: mass surveillance + criminalization networks that target our people. Join our four expert speakers on 2/4 at 6PM ET | 3PM PT for our LIVE conversation breaking down their harms. bit.ly/noringxflock

LE use this argument precisely because they're trying to erode our expectations! "If the Fourth Amendment is interpreted as only applying where society agrees we have an expectation of privacy, then [it] loses its meaning when people agree we no longer have an expectation" Ban ALPRs! 🚫 #deflock

Saturday night's all right for activism! If you're in Washington state, here are three actions to say no to age verification, and one on AI. If that's not how you want to spend your Saturday night, no worries. Tomorrow or Monday morning is fine too. Read on for more! (1/N) #waleg

A federal judge just upheld Norfolk's #ALPR dragnet and @ij.org is appealing. Here's how *you* can help by using your state's public records law to obtain ALPR related documents from your local law enforcement agency. 📝 businessreform.org/open-records... #deflock #surveillance #fourthamendment

Victory in Natick, MA! 🏆 "the Board was not aware of the #Flock pilot until the previous weekend when a member was asked by a resident about them, as people had started noticing stationary readers installed on poles around town." Nice betrayal of public trust there! #deflock #surveillance #alpr 🚫

"Flock Program Update" from the Mill Creek City Council Regular Meeting on January 27 Mostly standard #Flock talking points. ▪️ 18 cameras ▪️ Sharing with Everett, Lake Stevens & Mukilteo ▪️ Claim not 4A violating ▪️ Calling out SB 6002 / HB 2332 ▪️ 24 hour retention #deflock #wa #surveillance #alpr

"Must bring your own lipstick, we'll supply the pig."

A great opinion piece on #Flock as a non-partisan freedom issue. "If you wouldn’t want a police officer personally following you every time you left your house, even when you weren’t doing anything wrong, then why accept cameras doing that job invisibly?" #deflock #surveillance #alpr 🚫

People Power WA is changing our stance on the Senate version of this bill due to harmful amendments that were made. Read more, and tell your Senators NO on SB 6002! #SB6002 #WAStateLeg #SocialActionWA #APLR #SurveillanceCity

A statement from @ij.org regarding the decision yesterday. "As abuses of these #ALPR systems are mounting nationwide, it's more important than ever to vindicate the people's right to security from mass #surveillance guaranteed by the Fourth Amendment" Thanks for your continued efforts! ❤️ #deflock

Victory in Los Altos Hills, CA! 🏆 "The City Council at its Jan. 15 meeting voted to direct city staff to begin the process of ending its contract with #Flock Safety immediately for its 31 cameras around town." #deflock #surveillance #alpr 🚫

Victory in Watertown, MA! 🏆 "None of the cameras from the City’s contract have been installed in Watertown, Proakis said, and he said he will work with the Procurement Office on the steps to extract the City from that contract." #deflock #surveillance #alpr #flock 🚫

#Flock are desperately trying to reassure LE despite overwhelming public resentment of this form of mass #surveillance. It's not over. The court decision will be appealed, but it shows the importance of continuing to fight at the state & local level. Ban ALPRs! 🚫 Cancel Flock! 🚫 #deflock #alpr

Win for privacy! Yesterday, the Portsmouth Town Council voted 7-0 to REJECT the RI State Police’s request to install a Flock Safety automated license plate reader (ALPR) in the town. Portsmouth is the second town to recently refuse to install this invasive technology w/out legal safeguards in place.

Victory in Prosser, WA! 🏆 The 20 cameras around the city have now been shut off, but the contract will be maintained through November 2026. It might be a good to physically cover them to avoid any potential accidental reactivation? #deflock #surveillance #alpr 🚫

If you're in Washington here's two actions to stop “Surveillance pricing”: setting a different price for each consumer based on the maximum they are willing to pay. That shouldn't be legal, and this bill -- developed working with the UFCW 3000 union -- prohibits it. #waleg

"But the fact of the matter is, there’s not anything you can do to make this kind of technology safe. It’s just designed to be abused." - Ky Fireside (of eyesoffeugene.org 🏆) 💯. "Guardrails" are merely a band-aid, not a solution. ALPRs should just be banned! 🚫 #deflock #oregon #surveillance #alpr

We only know about a lot of the ways mass surveillance has been used because of public records requests by reporters & community groups. Cops & surveillance companies are obscuring info on use. And, WA state legislature is working on a bill SB 6002 to exempt surveillance data from public records

"Whether it’s laziness or active profiling, the system is designed to make disproportionate surveillance the path of least resistance... they built a system where retrieving a month of someone’s movements requires less thought than ordering a cup of coffee." #deflock #surveillance #alpr #flock 🚫

NEW: Police officers are being told to “be as vague as permissible” about why they are using the Flock surveillance system in order to not leak sensitive information via public records requests, according to records obtained using a public records request.

Say no to age verification in Washington state! If you're a Washington resident, tell your legislators not to follow Texas' lead! HB 2112 is one of several age verification bills this session,. It's based an odious Texas age verification law.... www.takeaction.network/xactions/46385

This is a pretty interesting new tool from @flockhopper.bsky.social It lets you plan a route avoiding #Flock cameras by leveraging the same #OSM data as deflock.me and shows you the difference in cameras/distance from the direct option! ✅ 👉 dontgetflocked.com/map #deflock #surveillance #alpr

Nobody but retailers and data brokers benefit from the exploitation that is #surveillance pricing. There's no upside for us, only increased monitoring of our daily lives! Let's get this banned in Washington State! 🚫 Due by Jan 28 • 8:00am 🗓️ #waleg

"Redmond City Council now must work through the logistics of ending the contract with Flock Safety. This may prove difficult, as the City accepted grant money to help fund the installation" Another reason NOT to accept funding for #surveillance like this! Cancel #Flock! 🚫 #deflock #redmond #alpr

⚠️ Reminder: This action on SB 6002 is due by Monday January 26 at 5 PM 🗓️ As it stands, this is a weak, compromised bill allowing for 21 day retention!! 👎 Given everything we know, we should be passing best-in-nation regulation or better yet, an outright ban! 🚫 #deflock #surveillance #alpr #waleg

⚠️ Reminder: This action on SB 6002 is due by Monday January 26 at 5 PM 🗓️ As it stands, this is a weak, compromised bill allowing for 21 day retention!! 👎 Given everything we know, we should be passing best-in-nation regulation or better yet, an outright ban! 🚫 #deflock #surveillance #alpr #waleg

🚨 A call to action opposing online age verification 🚨 By Tue Jan 27 at 6PM HB 2112: Modeled on a bad Texas bill! 👉 www.takeaction.network/xactions/46385 By Mon Jan 26 at 3PM HB 1834: Has a poison pill: age verification / ID checks! 👉 www.takeaction.network/xactions/46462 #privacy #wa #waleg

The City of Verona, WI canceled back in November 2025 🏆, but #Flock are showing their true colors (again) by ignoring their requests to remove the cameras! 😠 So, like in Evanston IL, they are having to take matters into their own hands. Good job Mayor Diaz! 👍 #deflock #surveillance #alpr

Interesting talk on #privacy (or lack thereof) within modern, connected cars. 🎙️ A plethora of sensors monitors your vehicle and its occupants, which is collected and used/monetized in ways not in your best interests! It's obviously bad, but they go over a few things you can do to limit some of it.

"With the growing deployment of #Flock Safety cameras and their networked cloud-based database, it is increasingly easier for law enforcement to: ▪️Track the vehicles of people showing up at protests ▪️Search for people who meet certain criteria ▪️Target specific communities" #deflock #alpr

Hoping to start seeing a lot more community energy like this across the country now we know what's been going on! ▪️ Reject surveillance infrastructure! 🚫 ▪️ Cancel #Flock! 🚫 ▪️ Ban ALPRs! 🚫 Surveillance is not safety! @eyesoffcolorado.bsky.social #deflock #surveillance #alpr

🚨 #Flock mass #surveillance cameras are *everywhere* in Washington State! We need LOTS of people to speak up against passing weak #ALPR legislation to counter the bias towards lobbyists and LE. 👉 www.takeaction.network/xactions/46383 👈 See the map: deflock.me/map#map=7/47... #deflock #wa #waleg

Victory (of sorts) in Greenfield, MA! 🏆 "should the program continue, the cost of the cameras would eventually fall to the taxpayer — an expense that he said the city cannot afford to prioritize. The plan is to remove two in May and then the other two in October." #deflock #surveillance #alpr 🚫

🚨 This amended version of SB 6002 passed on Thursday! 🚨 It's horrible and means we're now negotiating from a weaker starting point! Please use this to contact your #WA legislators ASAP *OPPOSING* the current bill and demand they work to make it much stronger! 📢 #deflock #surveillance #alpr #waleg

A great resource for articles related to #Flock #surveillance! 📰 Over 770 entries have been added and tagged so far. It allows you to filter by city, county, state, etc. and even has RSS feeds for any given selection! 👉 gettheflockoutofhere.com/database/ #deflock #alpr 🚫

Is #Flock facilitating the evasion of oversight from audits? 🤔 "The available data does, however, support the idea that Flock and police have been building a shadow network, and that some restricted agencies, like those in California, have been using it." #deflock #alpr #surveillance 🚫