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🔗 Feds 'improperly' accessed S.F. license-plate surveillance data, audit finds San Francisco
Illegal
Oversharing
🔗 Humboldt County supervisors discuss budget, deficit - Times-Standard Humboldt County
Pushback
"Madrone told those present that he would not vote on a budget unless approximately $21,000 in funding to the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office, used to maintain the county's Flock license plate reader cameras, was cut.
"I don't support Flock cameras and mass surveillance," Madrone said. "… I've asked the sheriff to consider removing that from the budget and from our properties, but he has refused to do so.""
🔗 Marina City Council to approve drone first responder program Marina
Drones
Scope Creep
🔗 Does Flock Safety Keep Women Safe? Los Angeles
Pushback
Scope Creep
"Integral to this crusade is the "Dear John" operation, a strategy to intimidate people whose plates have been snatched by ALPRs in transit along Fig, by sending ominous, implicatory letters to their homes. The City Attorney's office flaunted one of these letters—which bears Karen Bass's name, as well as the Police Chief's —at a public presentation earlier this year. The letter reads, "A vehicle registered in your name was observed in an area where residents have expressed concern about crimes…including prostitution. The LAPD wanted…to remind you, it is illegal to engage in or solicit prostitution. The consequences for engaging in such illegal conduct may result in criminal punishment by jail or fine.""
Notes: Another example of Flock "guilt by proximity" being weaponized against people who have done nothing wrong.
🔗 Automatic license plate readers aid investigations, police say Chico
Paywall
🔗 Burbank Stays Course With Flock Surveillance Cameras Burbank
Renewal
🔗 GVPD agrees to 'homework' regarding use of Flock cameras Grass Valley
🔗 What is Flock? An introduction to the technology surveilling the Morongo Basin Twentynine Palms
Yucca Valley
🔗 SF tech investor pours $9M into illegal dumping fight in Oakland Oakland
Scope Creep
"The city's anti-trash surveillance system may also grow again if city leaders approve a proposal to let the Oakland Police Department share data from its 293 Flock Safety cameras with Public Works."
🔗 Supervisors field epic debate over video policing, policies - Mad River Union Humboldt County
Pushback
🔗 Vallejo City Council votes to cut 10 employees in first 2026-27 budget talks Vallejo
Pushback
"In public comment, Shea Grove asked the council to reject spending $332,000 in Measure P funds for Flock Safety, which provides automated license plate readers for the city, noting the growing cancellation of support for the company at many other cities including in Mountain View and El Cerrito. The Measure P Oversight Committee in May recommended use of the funds for renewing the contract with Flock.
Matias and Councilmember Peter Bregenzer agreed that the council will hear from the Surveillance Advisory Board and the Police Oversight and Accountability Commission before committing Measure P funds to the current Flock contract."
🔗 Push to install license plate readers comes amid questions about how data are shared Los Angeles
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🔗 Imperial Beach approves license plate reader, public safety cameras San Diego
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🔗 UC Berkeley must ensure data is not shared with unaccountable parties Berkeley
Pushback
🔗 Oakland Police Swamped by Over One Million Camera Alerts as Stolen Vehicle Notifications Are Switched Off Oakland
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🔗 A Flock license plate reader linked a San Diego man to a violent crime. He was five miles away. San Diego
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🔗 Flock cameras captured over 600 million license plates in Oakland last year Oakland
Notes: Flock is both a "force multiplier" that helps departments do more with less AND requires extra staffing to respond to all the alerts it generates. Which is it?
🔗 LA City Attorney Pursues $1 Contract with Flock Safety Los Angeles
Backsliding
🔗 Automated license plate readers and public surveillance cameras are coming to Imperial Beach Imperial Beach
New Outbreak
🔗 Humboldt Supervisors Hash Out Privacy Concerns Over Flock's Automated License Plate-Reading Cameras, Direct Sheriff's Office to Improve Transparency Humboldt County
Pushback
🔗 ASI Board calls for removal of Flock Safety cameras - Mustang News San Luis Obispo
Pushback
🔗 Humboldt County supervisors discuss Flock camera contract Humboldt County
Pushback
""I will say that I think you know what I've heard you say, Sheriff Honsel, often is that one of your best tools of all is public trust and the public's willingness to call you, call your department, and report crimes and provide you with information when you're trying to solve crimes. … I suspect that there's a lot more crimes that are solved with a high trust level (than with trust-undermining surveillance).""
🔗 Despite community pushback, Los Altos opts to extend Flock Safety contract Los Altos
Renewal
🔗 Palo Alto considers ditching license plate cameras amid public outcry Palo Alto
Pushback
🔗 Council leery of license plate camera company after violations Palo Alto
Pushback
🔗 Supervisors to review Flock Safety camera program Humboldt County
Pushback
🔗 Civic calendar | Supervisors to hear about HCSO Flock camera use Humboldt County
🔗 Shafter police could start using Flock drone program during emergency responses: agenda Shafter
Drones
Scope Creep
🔗 Peter Ortiz, candidate for San Jose City Council District 5, answers the Mercury News ... Elections
San Jose
"I support the use of license plate reader technology as a tool to help law enforcement solve crimes and keep our communities safe."
🔗 Records show UC sharing data with US Customs and Border Protection Berkeley
Oversharing
🔗 'A Climate of Fear and Mistrust': Petition Urges Humboldt Sheriff, Board of Supervisors to ... Humboldt County
Illegal
Pushback
🔗 'Powerful tools require powerful oversight': Grass Valley under pressure to cancel Flock surveillance contracts Grass Valley
Pushback
🔗 Flock is quietly training police to lobby their cities' leaders Oakland
🔗 Pasadena Residents Push to End Flock License Plate Reader Program Pasadena
Pushback
🔗 Police auditor to review Palo Alto's license plate cameras Palo Alto
🔗 Automated license plate reader restrictions focus of new bill Legislation
🔗 Rolling Back Surveillance Capitalism: Get the Flock Out of Your City Activism
🔗 City Committee Split over Use of Flock Cameras as Flood of Residents Raise of ICE Fears Pasadena
Pushback
🔗 West Sacramento council passes policy to restrict ICE use of city resources Sacramento
"The city has a 39-camera contract with controversial license plate reader company Flock Safety, a nationwide private surveillance system that facilitates data requests between law enforcement agencies participating in the program."
🔗 Chelsea Byers Launches West Hollywood Reelection Campaign Elections
West Hollywood
"In February of this year, Byers and Erickson co-sponsored a successful motion to review the City's Flock Safety surveillance camera contract after national reporting that federal immigration enforcement had accessed Flock data through local police. The follow-up vote in March, to terminate the contract, lost 3-2. Heilman, Hang, and Meister voted to keep the vendor and amend the agreement."
🔗 'Stockton is ready,' Mayor Fugazi proclaims at State of the City Stockton
Drones
"Amid her discussion of crime, the mayor remarked specifically on her support for the Stockton Police Department's use of the Flock Safety drone program, which drew criticism in spring ahead of City Council's unanimous expansion of the city's contract with Flock."
🔗 Santa Cruz County Office of Inspector General audit finds Sheriff's Office appropriately using ... Santa Cruz County
🔗 Public Safety Committee Faces Wave of Public Input Over Pasadena Flock Cameras Pasadena
Pushback
🔗 Fresno City Council candidates speak out at Big Red Church forum - Fresnoland Elections
Fresno
🔗 Cal Poly students protest use of controversial surveillance cameras San Luis Obispo
Pushback
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🔗 Richmond Kept Flock Cameras in the 2027 Budget Richmond
Renewal
🔗 Berkeley City Council considers other vendors in surveillance technology expansion Berkeley
Expansion
🔗 Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office use of license plate readers unpacked at upcoming supervisors meeting Santa Cruz County
🔗 Walking in WeHo With Matt Mahan, the Man Who Wants to Be Governor | WEHOonline Elections
"Mahan said San Jose added restrictions after public concerns mounted, cutting default data retention from one year to 30 days, adding new documentation requirements for agencies seeking access, and barring direct data sharing with outside agencies.
"I personally believe, from everything I have read, seen, studied, and discussed with folks in the city and outside the city, that we've struck the right balance here," Mahan said."
Notes: Matt Mahan is the mayor of San Jose. He is running for governor of California. He thinks San Jose's ~500 Flock cameras, which have gotten them sued twice, have "struck the right balance."
🔗 Flock Safety Cameras and Community Safety in Lassen County Lassen County
🔗 Pleasanton Police Allay License Plate Data Fears - independentnews.com Pleasanton
🔗 Vallejo oversight committee recommends using sales tax funds for Flock license plate readers Vallejo
🔗 Lowe's, Home Depot could start spying on you using license plate readers Business Usage
Lawsuit
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🔗 Flock keeps spying on us all, and state and local officials aren't protecting us Analysis
🔗 Get the Flock Out of SF Peninsula Palo Alto
Activism
Pushback
Notes: Protest scheduled for 4:00PM on May 15th.
🔗 Richmond's Flock cameras back online after months-long shutdown Richmond
Backsliding
🔗 Berkeley memo lays out new concerns over Flock cameras Berkeley
Pushback
🔗 Berkeley city leaders vote on Flock camera contract Berkeley
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🔗 Flock cameras debate continues in Berkeley Berkeley
Renewal
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🔗 LA Sheriff Department has hundreds of surveillance cameras. Officials say data isn't shared with ICE Los Angeles
"The data is stored for two years in most cases, which was revised down from the department's five-year policy.
After two years, the records are archived. After five years, the data is permanently deleted."
🔗 San Diego privacy board seeks more police tech oversight San Diego
Pushback
🔗 Berkeley's Flock surveillance expansion has 'legal risks': Leaked memo Berkeley
Pushback
🔗 Opinion: Berkeley does not need Flock surveillance tech to stay safe Berkeley
Expansion
Scope Creep
🔗 LAPD sued over Flock Safety license plate cameras Los Angeles
Lawsuit
Pushback
Video
🔗 Opinion: Bill Wells sued California to make it easier to hurt his own neighbors El Cajon
Elections
Oversharing
🔗 Leaked city attorney memo shows Berkeley risks potential million-dollar lawsuits if council renews Flock contract Berkeley
"The City Attorney's Office proposed additional amendments to the Flock contract to comply with Berkeley's sanctuary city protections. Flock sent the city amendments overriding the city attorneys' changes and enabling Flock to share data with third parties without the city's consent. According to the memo, city attorneys are unsure if Flock intentionally or accidentally undercut Berkeley's sanctuary city protections, but declare "either possibility is troubling.""
Notes: Berkeley's city attorneys did an excellent job identifying and outlining the legal risks associated with using Flock as well as documenting how Flock's promises and contract language don't really ameliorate those risks, using practical real-world examples as evidence.
🔗 El Cerrito Votes to End Flock Contract, Cameras Go Dark June 7 El Cerrito
Success
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🔗 Sunnyvale Creates Stronger Safeguards to Police Surveillance Sunnyvale
Pushback
🔗 Pleasanton PD to present annual update to City Council Pleasanton
🔗 LAPD sued over Flock automatic license plate readers Los Angeles
Lawsuit
Pushback
Video
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🔗 LAPD sued over privately-operated Flock surveillance cameras Los Angeles
Lawsuit
Pushback
🔗 SCLU speaks against SDPD surveillance technology contract San Diego
Pushback
🔗 El Cerrito Set to Talk Flock Safety Contract El Cerrito
Renewal
🔗 Cameras on chopping block? Bishop residents raise concerns over civil liberties, surveillance and security vulnerabilities Bishop
Pushback
🔗 Educator Update: Capitola renews controversial Flock Safety cameras Capitola
Renewal
🔗 As Flock Vote Looms, Berkeley Police Hail License Plate Readers For Help In Series Of Crimes Berkeley
🔗 With legal threat looming, Richmond Flock camera saga may not be over yet Richmond
Pushback
🔗 Oakland police investigating Flock safety camera vandalism Oakland
Video
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🔗 Scoop: San Diego police quietly signed new Flock tech deal San Diego
Scope Creep
🔗 The surveillance bombardment: Lafayette teen arrested in Bay Area Flock camera vandalism spree Concord
Moraga
Oakland
San Francisco
Vandalism
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🔗 City council to vote on controversial Flock Safety contract Berkeley
Expansion
Renewal
🔗 New multi-million-dollar Fremont police facility looks to enhance crime-fighting efforts Fremont
Scope Creep
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🔗 Investigation underway after Flock cameras stolen, discarded in Auburn Auburn
Vandalism
🔗 Eyes on the cameras watching us Healdsburg
🔗 Resident requests review of Tiburon's plate-camera use after data concerns Tiburon
Pushback
🔗 Flock cameras in Oakland vandalized with paint Oakland
Vandalism
Video
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🔗 Despite Flock conflict, city looks to retain auditing firm Palo Alto
Financials
🔗 SD-24 Senate Race: Who's Funding It and Where They Stand on Public Safety Elections
West Hollywood
"More recently, Erickson voted against moving forward with West Hollywood's Flock Safety camera program in both February and March, placing him in the minority as a 3-2 council majority chose to continue the rollout."
🔗 Merced Police Disable Data Sharing Connections in License Plate Reader System ... Merced
Restricted Sharing
🔗 Who is paint bombing Oakland's Flock cameras? Oakland
Vandalism
🔗 Capitola automatically renews contract with Flock; anti-surveillance organizers see 'long road ahead' Capitola
Renewal
🔗 Flock security cameras set to either expand or end in Berkeley Berkeley
Pushback
🔗 Palo Alto learns its license plate cameras could be searched by other police agencies across the country Palo Alto
Oversharing
🔗 Ami Chen Mills envisions a mayorship with more community conversations, leading to more people engaged in politics Santa Cruz
🔗 Sunnyvale officials say license plate cameras prevent crime Sunnyvale
Pushback
🔗 Palo Alto license plate data searched by hundreds of out-of-state agencies Palo Alto
"According to public records, law enforcement agencies from nearly every state performed searches that included Palo Alto's cameras. Federal agencies such as the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and the National Park Service were also listed as conducting searches."
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🔗 East Palo Alto City Council upholds Flock Safety camera contract East Palo Alto
Paywall
🔗 Santa Barbara Council Approves Revised Response to ICE Activity in City Santa Barbara
🔗 Alameda County Pays Flock Safety Bill, Signals Fight Over Future Contract Alameda County
🔗 Alameda Co.: Supes Vote To Briefly Extend Flock License Plate Reader Contract San Francisco
