Flock removes final two license plate cameras from Evanston after RoundTable inquiry - Evanston RoundTable Despite the City of Evanston ordering Flock Safety to take down all of its automated license plate readers last August, the company left two of the

A great follow-up from @alexhairysun.bsky.social on the #clusterflock of a situation last year in #Evanston, IL. 👀

"Vargas, the city's spokesperson, wrote that the ‘proposal‘ concerned #Flock making an offer to ‘continue the relationship,‘ which the city declined"

#deflock #surveillance #alpr

Here's the 30 min presentation (and some questions) to the #Issaquah council from February 25, 2025

📄 issaquah.civicweb.net/FileStorage/...

"We are not going to be tracking anybody" is just not how this works. It tracks *everybody* !

Might be time to get prepared!

#deflock #surveillance #alpr

Ominous Surveillance "Scarecrows" Appearing Across America A growing surveillance dragnet made up of "scarecrows" and "COWs" is spreading throughout the United States.

“It’s been quite amazing how fast this whole market segment has grown. Having that type of video evidence or other sensor data is really helpful.”

Your daily life shouldn't be searchable.

deflock.me

deflockatlanta.org

#Flock #Surveillance #Tech #ALPR #DeFlock

Sonoma expected to renew Flock Safety contract for automatic license plate readers The move would continue the city’s use of 16 fixed cameras in Sonoma, which are used by the police department as a law enforcement tool, for three more years.

The Sonoma City Council meets at 6 p.m. on Monday, March 30 in City Council Chambers, 177 First St. West.

#Flock #Surveillance #Tech #ALPR #DeFlock

~100 ALPR cameras. $1.25M! Nationwide tracking access 🚨

Asked for my own plate data.
Response: “we’re not required to show you.”

So they track you but you can’t see it! 👀

Excessive and opaque! Absolutely not! 🚫

#Privacy #Surveillance #CivilLiberties #FlockCameras #ALPR #DataPrivacy #Transparency

Cameras have quietly appeared in thousands of US cities – now, their integration with AI is sounding alarms What began as a tool to identify threats to national security is becoming a surveillance infrastructure that can be used to track everyone.

"As a result, data gathered through surveillance infrastructure in the U.S. can circulate with limited transparency or accountability."

#Flock #Surveillance #Tech #ALPR #DeFlock

"Flock Wing License(s) Included": How Speed Cameras Became Surveillance Cameras Procurement records reveal how Flock Safety sneaks its cameras into school zones with zero data governance provisions in the contract.

Sneaky and disgraceful!

⚠️ "The unified Wing network is different: residents are now told they’re getting school zone speed cameras, but the video is being routed into a national #surveillance network with no contractual guardrails"

#deflock #alpr

Berkeley council delays vote on ‘largest surveillance expansion in the city’s history’ After hours of debate, the council's vote on a $2 million expansion of the city’s Flock Safety surveillance network was postponed until June.

City of Berkeley delays #Flock #ALPR vote till June, running out of time at 1:30 in the morning after vociferous public comment. www.berkeleyside.org/2026/03/25/b...

Iran built a vast camera network to control dissent. Israel used it to track targets, AP sources say The role of Israel's hijacking of Iran’s street cameras in the killing of the country’s supreme leader underscores how surveillance systems are increasingly being targeted by adversaries in wartime.

Flock is commonly cited as an important measure for public safety, but what happens when your surveillance network is turned on you? What happens when you are betrayed by your infrastructure?

www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...

#Flock #ALPR #Surveillance #Privacy #Miami #Florida #Tech #AI

"Flock Wing License(s) Included": How Speed Cameras Became Surveillance Cameras Procurement records reveal how Flock Safety sneaks its cameras into school zones with zero data governance provisions in the contract.

"The word “privacy” does not appear — except once, regarding credit card processing when subjects pay for the privilege of their surveillance."

#Flock #Surveillance #Tech #ALPR #DeFlock

DeFlock Find license plate readers (LPRs) near you.

There's an #ALPR mapping project at deflock.org/map which has crowdsourced locations.

Map from deflock.org showing the Flock surveillance cameras around the University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ.

Just as an example, one location that caught our eye a few months back was the University of Arizona

deflock.org/map#map=12/3...

deflock.org is a mapping project that shows crowdsourced #ALPR data from OpenStreetMap and includes all vendor types, not just #Flock.

ICE Law Has Worrying Gap | The East Hampton Star There is an important caveat regarding privacy and the way locally collected data could be abused.

"In its proposal, the village would formalize its position that the Flock surveillance cameras installed within village limits could not be used for civil immigration enforcement.

However, there are plenty of ways for ICE to circumvent this type of restriction. "

#Flock #Surveillance #Tech #ALPR

Albany Lowe's also has Flock cameras. Who sees the data? Large retailers have looked to Flock to combat store theft.

"Albany hit pause on its one operating Flock camera in February, following a nonprofit report that highlighted network searches from U.S. Border Patrol last summer. "

#Flock #Surveillance #Tech #ALPR #DeFlock

Op-Ed: Northeast Ohio Officials Must Protect Residents and Reject Flock Surveillance technology is on the rise, putting Ohioan’s privacy rights at risk.

"But Flock CEO Langley has argued his critics are trying to “normalize lawlessness.” I would argue, we the People, simply want to protect our own rights."

#Flock #Surveillance #Tech #ALPR #DeFlock

Op-Ed: Northeast Ohio Officials Must Protect Residents and Reject Flock Surveillance technology is on the rise, putting Ohioan’s privacy rights at risk.

"Flock CEO Langley has argued his critics are trying to “normalize lawlessness.” I would argue, we the People, simply want to protect our own rights."

Thank you.

#Flock #Surveillance #Tech #ALPR #DeFlock

We're gonna need that victory trophy back!

"‘I am pretty unconvinced that #ALPR tech is necessary,‘ said Tal Ormsby. ‘Even if it's in its most optimal state, and city-owned, it just doesn't seem like the benefits outweigh the privacy intrusions on everyday folks.‘"

#deflock #surveillance

Here are 75 universities that use Flock There's certainly many, many more.

"Flock is signing contracts with campus police departments across the country. At a time when college students have seen their First Amendment rights grossly infringed upon, FOIAball thought you should know which schools use them."

#deflock #surveillance #alpr

‘No Flock, No ICE’: Student protest demands removal of Flock surveillance at UW A small group of protesters gathered around Bascom Hall Tuesday afternoon, calling on the UW administration to ban the use of Flock cameras on the University of Madison campus.  The “No Flock! No ICE ...

“I don’t believe that infrastructure should be on campus at all. I don’t think we should have AI surveillance tools tracking students or faculty,” Keenan said."

#Flock #Surveillance #Tech #ALPR #DeFlock

ALPR Tech Now Preventing Parents From Enrolling Their Kids In School All the people who have always brushed off concerns about surveillance tech, please come get your kids. And then let someone else raise them. Lots of people are fine with mass surveillance because …

More "Pattern of Life" #surveillance from #ALPR data! 😩

"Although you are the owner on record of a house in our district boundaries, your license plate recognition shows that is not the place where you reside."

How is the data getting exfiltrated for this ridiculous purpose in the first place? 🤔

Leonardo, an alternative to #Flock for #ALPR, offers tech that logs your wireless devices as well as your plate!

"When multiple devices consistently move together with a vehicle, SignalTrace's algorithms link them to that vehicles' license plate and time-stamped location."

#deflock #surveillance

Who Is Flock Intelligence? An unknown Flock-affiliated entity searched Dunwoody GA PD's camera networks 606 times in five months using AI-powered queries — many targeting political expression. Four other Flock-internal organiza...

"Its operator identities, search filters, and case numbers are all redacted in the logs #Flock provides to its own customers. Dunwoody PD cannot audit who at Flock Intelligence searched their network, what they were looking for, or why."

#deflock #surveillance #alpr

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

Sheriff’s deputies thought they'd stopped a criminal. But license plate cameras led them to the wrong person To avoid a sprawling web of new Flock surveillance cameras, thieves are swapping license plates, creating serious risks for unsuspecting drivers.

Plate swapping is not a new thing. What is new, however, is the rapid expansion of mass #surveillance #ALPR networks, which trigger responses for law enforcement to "locate and swoop in" on suspect vehicles.

It's only a matter of time before somebody gets seriously hurt.

Ban ALPRs! 🚫

#deflock

You Will Own Nothing: How Flock Safety Keeps Cities From Their Own Surveillance Data Flock customers technically 'own' their footage — but can't access high-resolution originals, get images with unreliable timestamps and scrubbed metadata, and must submit formal requests through Flock...

"The ownership is a fiction. The customer has never possessed the original image or the original log. If it can even obtain it at all, it can’t do so independently; it can only submit a formal request to #Flock — which will respond on its own timeline, in whatever format it chooses."

#deflock #alpr

We didn't have room for all of them.

But hey, they're just taking pictures of license plates, right?

What could go wrong?

#DeFlock #Flock #Surveillance #ALPR

The decision in the Virginia lawsuit against 170 #Flock cameras in Norfolk failed to consider how AI can be used to fill in the gaps and deduce even more about our movements.

#deflock #surveillance #alpr

I discovered these two #Flock #ALPR cameras along Green Road in Raleigh today and added them to the DeFlock.Me database.

Virgin Islands Looking for Stolen Cars in Arkansas Virgin Island police are looking for traffic infractions and stolen vehicles in the Ozarks.

Audits and policies don't protect us!

"Each of those 5,000+ receiving agencies claims to audit its incoming queries. Every one of them should have flagged a Caribbean police department searching for traffic infractions on the mainland. None did."

#deflock #surveillance #alpr

SF 4739 Introduction - 94th Legislature (2025 - 2026)

No Fed access!

enhancing restrictions on automated license plate reader data; #mnleg #SF #2026 #ALPR

www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/94/202...