deflock presents: National Week of Action against ALPRS. Demand an end to automated licence plate readers! More info coming soon. Sign up to receive updates: www.noalprs.com
DeFlock has just announced a National Week of Action against ALPRs! Details coming soon ... for now, there's a web site you can sign up at if you're interested.
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A tweet from Representative Thomas Massie that reads: I just viewed 2 Top Secret FISA docs. 1) FISA Court opinion that raises serious concerns about FBI implementation of FISA 702. 2) letter by Senator Wyden describing a secret government interpretation of FISA law. The Constitution requires I vote No on FISA 702 reauthorization.
I sent a classified letter to House and Senate colleagues about a secret interpretation of surveillance law that every American should be concerned about.
Representative Massie is right. The Constitution requires EVERY member to vote against a clean reauthorization.
City Council – The Mayor has asked that the Congressional Community Appropriations Grant & Automated License Plate Reader Cameras topic currently scheduled for the May 19 SSP and June 15 Council meeting be shifted to later in the year. An exact date is uncertain as we are awaiting confirmation of any deadlines for accepting the congressional grant. If there are community inquiries on a meeting date for Flock/ALPR cameras, the Clerk's office is happy to add individuals to a notification list. We will then alert those folks of any public meetings on the topic once meeting dates are set.
Update: Flock/ALPR camera meetings previously planned for May/June have been postponed. If you want to stay informed about new dates, email me at kevin.nichols@issaquahwa.gov or our City Clerk to join a notification list. Public feedback is always welcome, even before meetings are scheduled as well.
Thanks for the update!
I know Flock Safety being a dangerous panopticon has certainly landed in the wider culture because CINEMASINS of all channels dropped a reference to it.
Along with passing legislation banning cooperation with ICE, Pittsburgh City Council also passed a resolution to disclose all surveillance technology the city is currently using against citizens.
Another story on abuse of mass #surveillance data! 😩
"in 'one month‘s time,' the sheriff queried his wife’s license plate number approximately 152 times. His stated purpose was to assess the system’s reliability before a contract decision."
Ban ALPRs! 🚫
#deflock #alpr
Dunwoody City Council faces public backlash over Flock camera data sharing practices
The Dunwoody City Council heard concerns about Flock cameras and postponed a vote on renewing a $15,000 contract with the organization, while also approving money for park improvements and introducing a dog for…
Issaquah CM here. Can confirm the city received a grant to buy Flock cameras and will discuss at upcoming public meetings (details below). I’d recommend anyone with opinions in Issaquah reach out to council. I have serious concerns but will save my own comments for the public meetings.
Map of Issaquah, WA overlaid with red icons indicating proposed locations for 19 Flock mass surveillance cameras. These will indiscriminately capture and store the license plates of every passing vehicle regardless of suspicion.
⚠️ Could #Flock mass #surveillance be coming to #Issaquah soon?
This was pitched to council a year ago, but was awaiting a grant which we're told has now come through.
19 potential entry/exit points will be considered as part of a "pilot program" at an estimated cost of up to $200K per year.
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!
We don’t even have a national consumer data privacy law for the same reason: Congress is subservient to Big Tech.
Silicon Valley has clearly expressed they prefer Trump to a democracy in which their power could be contested and their abuses checked. Democrats need to face this reality and fight.
My latest about Mayor Wilson's surveillance announcement last week and the new state license plate reader bill.
We made a short one-pager about all of the problems with ALPRs to hand out at future events / talks.
Feel free to take this one and rip it off for your own events. More resources coming soon! #Flock #ALPR #DeFlock
short.lucyparsonslabs.com/alpronepager
And in case there was any room for doubt, the Republican coauthor of KOSA explicitly said she expects and hopes the bill to make it harder for queer people to connect with each other and find out they're not alone (as Katelyn says she did here)
www.them.us/story/kosa-s...
If you give *everyone* privacy, you don't have to scan their driver's licenses first before deciding how much privacy to offer them.
“The fact that they didn’t take the cameras down shows that we are the product,” Diaz said. “They were never really selling to us in the first place. What they are doing is selling to much bigger agencies the ability to spy on a ton of people.”
"Why should I care? I'm not doing anything wrong."
You can help stop this intrusion.
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video from the Mount Vernon city council meeting last week with plenty of discussion of #Flock
“If the Berkeley Police Department was looking to hire a police officer who had the kind of track record Flock has — had been fired from multiple institutions, there are credible allegations of a lack of confidentiality — I don’t think they would hire Flock,” Saginor said.
I'm grateful RVA has an independent nonprofit newsroom that will run stories like this, and to all the other independent media around the country that have led the way on Flock. Especially @404media.co @unraveledpress.com @readfrontier.bsky.social @bennjordan.bsky.social. Support independent media!
Thanks for your reporting on this! We highlighted some of the abuses in Wisconsin during the legislature's discussions of Flock regulation, it's very helpful to see the patterns across states.
No reporter in Wisconsin has covered the issues involved with Flock surveillance more than @isiaholmes.bsky.social. Here's his latest: Wisconsin communities grapple with police misuse of Flock surveillance
Here's the full video from the #Redmond Police Technology Update study session on 3/10.
Presentation order
1. Body worn cameras
2. Drones
3. #ALPR / #Flock cameras
Unfortunately there is no direct link to the questioning, but it starts at 29 mins and lasts a further 1 hr 20 mins.
Wow! A huge victory in the EU Parliament in the fight against #chatControl: a majority of MEPs voted to end the untargeted mass scanning of private communications!
Up next: the "trilogue" negotiations between the EU Parliament, the European Commission, and the Council of the EU.
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...
Two knitting ladies in the audience of a West St. Paul City Council meeting looking at each other quizzically
Knitting ladies react to Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley calling Deflock a "terroristic organization" "whose primary motivation is chaos"
@vandanaslatter.bsky.social was the only Senate Democrat to vote "no" on concurring with the weak House version of SB 6002.
It's a courageous vote! So please thank her -- along with Rep. Brianna Thomas, the only Democrat to vote "no" in the House
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