Flock is ultimately accountable to Silicon Valley investors and windfall ‘exits’ rather than communities with appropriate products. Flock is experimenting with drone surveillance and people profiling tools that merge data from different sources. www.404media.co/license-plat...

Sen @RonWyden wrote to Flock in 2025: “Flock cannot live up to its commitment to protect the privacy and security of Oregonians. Abuse of Flock cameras is inevitable, and Flock has made it clear it takes no responsibility to prevent or detect that.” therecord.media/wyden-letter...

California Attorney General Rob Bonta has sued the city of El Cajon for sharing Flock license plate data with many states around the US in defiance of state laws. oag.ca.gov/news/press-r...

The ACLU reports that Flock, unlike its competitors, has not allowed its products to be independently evaluated for cybersecurity.https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/communities-should-reject-surveillance-products-whose-makers-wont-allow-them-to-be-independently-evaluated

Reports by researchers at UW and journalists at 404media have found numerous examples of police officers searching the Flock network on behalf of federal immigration enforcement. Flock makes such searches easy to do and hard to stop. jsis.washington.edu/humanrights/...

Flock centrally stores ALPR data and is subject to court orders. It said so to the San Diego City Council Public Safety Committee. Source: Meeting archives

Flock re-installed its cameras in Evanston, Illinois after the city ordered cameras removed. Evanston sent Flock a cease-and-desist. evanstonroundtable.com/2025/09/24/f...

Flock deceived the public about creating “back door” access for Customs and Border Patrol in Colorado, in defiance of state law. www.9news.com/article/news...

Flock and San Diego Police broke the law, leaving our license plates open to almost 13,000 searches over three weeks. timesofsandiego.com/crime/2025/0...

Public Safety Committee takes up the PAB advice on Wed, Nov 12 at 2pm at City Hall. Be heard! Tell them to SHUT DOWN FLOCK and explain why Flock makes your community less safe.

Write in a comment here for agenda item 3:
www.sandiego.gov/council-comm...

Contact your city Councilmember and let them know what you think about ALPRs. www.sandiego.gov/citycouncil

Sessions on surveillance and the working class fight with Satomi Rash-Zeigler and Lilly Irani, on surveillance and immigration with Homayra Yusufi (@panasd.org) and Pedro Rios (@pedroconsafos.bsky.social)

RSVP! trst.fyi/su25

Activist Alicia Chastain from Oak Park, IL is sharing how they shut down ALPR!

We've got solidarity and the fight ahead w/Khalid Alexander (Pillars), Dr. Megan Ybarra (geographer+organizer), Christina-Griffin-Jones (fmr Commissioner+organizer), Seth Hall (@loteck.bsky.social)

Our keynote will be Sarah T. Hamid of @eff.org, a community organizer working at the intersection of technology, global/domestic warfare, and punishment-based criminal and bordering systems for the past decade. Due to unforeseen circumstances, Lorena Gonzales cannot attend.

And the Trump admin has declared war on the labor movement by deporting and refusing to return Building Trades brother Kilmar Abrego, by illegally canceling the visas of academic workers, by unilaterally canceling federal worker contracts, and making anti-union appointments.

Flock lied to cities and it has come out that federal immigration agents had direct access to Flock's networks. www.9news.com/article/news...