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🔗 GJPD, MCSO say they will continue use of ALPRs amid budget constraints, public backlash Grand Junction
Mesa County
🔗 Flock surveillance cameras at 6 APS schools shut off after city decides to quit paying Aurora
Campus
🔗 Lafayette and Erie communities push back on Flock cameras Erie
Lafayette
Pushback
🔗 Lafayette City Council unanimously votes to remove Flock cameras Lafayette
Success
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🔗 Arvada Police will not renew contract with Flock Safety Arvada
Success
Sunsetting
🔗 Greeley mayor, 3 city council members could face recall effort Greeley
Pushback
🔗 Breckenridge to switch license plate reader tech from Flock to Axon 'as soon as possible' amid public controversy Breckenridge
Axon
Switcheroo
🔗 Telluride cancels contract with Flock Safety Telluride
Success
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🔗 Colorado communities are switching from Flock to Axon. Is it more private? Denver
Douglas County
Durango
Longmont
Axon
Switcheroo
🔗 Erie residents raise concerns over Flock cameras ahead of possible contract renewal Erie
Pushback
Renewal
🔗 Flock cameras at Aurora schools turned off, scheduled for removal Aurora
Campus
Scaled Back
🔗 Republican rancher challenges Democratic incumbent in Colorado Senate District 8 covering the Western Slope Elections
🔗 Avon narrowly puts privacy over public safety by voting 4-3 to terminate Flock camera contract Avon
Success
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🔗 Another Colorado sheriff's office ends Flock program Custer County
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🔗 City hosting info session about Flock Safety tech Montrose
🔗 El Paso County Sheriff's Office to Discontinue Use of Flock Safety Cameras El Paso County
Success
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🔗 Montrose police chief to address Flock camera usage Montrose
🔗 Flock police cameras expand to nine Aurora high schools amid privacy debates Aurora
Campus
Expansion
🔗 Durango residents protest Flock ALPRs and Axon pivot Durango
Axon
Switcheroo
🔗 Summit County will keep Flock cameras, but changes to how the information is used are coming Summit County
🔗 Summit County Sheriff's Office plans to reactivate Flock cameras despite community criticism on surveillance Summit County
🔗 Newsom challenges Linke's election record as Grand County candidates discuss growth, Flock cameras Elections
Grand County
🔗 Aurora police put Flock cameras in high school parking lots, raising concerns about surveillance of students Aurora
Scope Creep
🔗 Telluride Town Council to hold work session on Flock cameras Telluride
Pushback
🔗 Longmont Community Update on Automated License Plate Reader (ALPR) Technology Longmont
Axon
Switcheroo
🔗 Student petition to ban Flock cameras in Loveland gains traction Loveland
Pushback
🔗 Del Norte passes 5-year moratorium on Flock Del Norte
Blocked
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🔗 Northwestern Colorado sheriff removes Flock cameras: "done flocking around" Moffat County
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🔗 Boulder punts Flock camera decision to 2027 Boulder
Pushback
🔗 Community forum on Flock cameras brings questions and controversy Summit County
Pushback
🔗 Englewood pulls the plug on Flock Englewood
Success
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🔗 City pauses license plate reader vendor selection to allow for broader policy discussion and community engagement Boulder
Pushback
🔗 Lauren Boebert sees Flock cameras as frightening expansion of the post-9/11 surveillance state Federal Government
Pushback
🔗 Hayden Police Department terminating Flock contract, bagging cameras Hayden
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🔗 Colorado agencies drop Flock cameras in droves as privacy concerns mount Calhan
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🔗 Durango will end Flock Safety contract in 2027 Durango
Switcheroo
🔗 Routt County Sheriff's Office ending Flock contract, in process of deactivating cameras Routt County
Success
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🔗 Breckenridge Police Chief stands by Flock cameras as contract renewal decision approaches Breckenridge
Renewal
🔗 Steamboat Springs Flock cameras to be deactivated 'immediately' Steamboat Springs
Success
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🔗 Sheriff's Office pauses use of Flock after meeting with county amid vandalism and public complaints over surveillance Summit County
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🔗 Flock Safety officials to attend county meeting amid community pushback on public surveillance Summit County
Pushback
🔗 Moffat County Sheriff's Office to end Flock camera contract Moffat County
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🔗 4 more Flock cameras cut down amid pushback from citizens on concerns around privacy, surveillance Summit County
Vandalism
🔗 Salida Police Department cancels contract with Flock Safety, cites community concerns Salida
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🔗 Multiple Flock cameras cut down in Summit County, prompting sheriff's office investigation Summit County
Vandalism
🔗 Vandalized Flock cameras prompt Sheriff's Office investigation Summit County
Vandalism
🔗 Wellington residents raise privacy concerns over Flock cameras Wellington
Pushback
🔗 Flock insists it never released its distress detection feature, but a police department says it had it Commerce City
Audio Surveillance
False Claims
Flocked Up
🔗 Flock CEO pushes back on Douglas County's Axon switch Douglas County
Axon
Switcheroo
🔗 Larimer County sheriff defends license plate reader cameras as privacy concerns grow Larimer County
Pushback
🔗 Petition, public comment ask officials to reconsider Flock Safety license plate reader contracts Breckenridge
Summit County
Pushback
🔗 Man protests Flock cameras at Lincoln Park Grand Junction
Pushback
🔗 Avon Town Council hears from public on Flock camera use after July 18 incident resulting in $52,500 in damages Avon
Pushback
Vandalism
🔗 Colorado Mountain town opens up communication on Flock cameras after vandal takes one down Avon
Pushback
Renewal
Vandalism
🔗 Vandals take down cameras in Avon, prompting discussion on Flock Safety contract Avon
Vandalism
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🔗 Aspen Police Department discontinuing contract with Flock Aspen
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🔗 Denver And Douglas County Fired Flock Over Spying Concerns—Then Hired Axon To Do The Same Job Denver
Douglas County
Axon
Switcheroo
🔗 Douglas County sheriff swaps Flock for Axon Douglas County
Axon
Switcheroo
🔗 3 Flock cameras shot in alcohol-fueled evening, Grand Junction police say Grand Junction
Vandalism
🔗 Who's possibly replacing Flock? Boulder isn't saying yet. Boulder
Switcheroo
🔗 Douglas County to replace Flock cameras with $22.8 million Axon system Douglas County
Switcheroo
🔗 Flock cameras appear inTrinidad-area corridors Las Animas County
🔗 Lafayette Police hosts talk amid concerns around Flock cameras Lafayette
Pushback
🔗 Durango's Flock data by the numbers Durango
🔗 Longmont Under the Lens As Council Shapes Surveillance Future Longmont
Switcheroo
🔗 Fort Collins City Council set to take vote on Flock cameras Fort Collins
Paywall
🔗 Flock cameras are out in Fort Collins, as council votes to end contract Fort Collins
Paywall
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🔗 Report: Denver Shuts Down Flock Cameras, Auto Theft Declines Denver
Analysis
🔗 Denver's license plate cameras went dark for a month. Auto theft dropped 29% anyway. Denver
Analysis
Video
Notes: Another example of Flock taking credit when there's any hint that crime stats go their way and calling it an anomaly when there's clear evidence they don't.
🔗 Safety advocate questions roadside installation of Flock cameras as company says Colorado installs meet requirements Golden
Video
Notes: Raises interesting questions about whether the poles Flock mounts their cameras on are a crash hazard due to lack of "breakaway" capability.Copies at:
🔗 How high tech surveillance led to political turmoil in a Colorado Mountain town Elections
Paonia
Pushback
🔗 Bow Mar moves to install gates on Sheridan Boulevard, drawing criticism from Denver and Littleton Bow Mar
"The town has been fighting for years to block and track unwanted outsiders. It has embraced surveillance, installing Flock Safety cameras at its entrances — with police once using the data to falsely accuse a Denver woman of package theft."
Notes: Just more evidence that the primary thing that Flock sells is fear.
🔗 Glenwood Springs approves Axon public safety technology contract Glenwood Springs
Switcheroo
🔗 Boulder residents sue police chief over alleged 'mass surveillance' by Flock cameras Boulder
Lawsuit
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🔗 Cheyenne County Sheriff's Office use of FLOCK license plate reader cameras Cheyenne County
🔗 As street camera use surges, Colorado legislators grapple with law enforcement, privacy implications Legislation
🔗 Fort Collins City Council considers canceling Flock contract Fort Collins
Paywall
Pushback
🔗 License plate reader reform didn't make it through the legislature, but local leaders can still act (Opinion) Boulder
Pushback
🔗 All about Flock cameras in Fort Collins Fort Collins
Video
🔗 Police chief says only APD can search local license plate camera database Aspen
🔗 Police audit finds no evidence of misuse by Thornton officer who ran more than 10,000 Flock ... Denver
Video
"Thornton police just investigated a Thornton police officer and Thornton police found the Thornton police officer did not violate Thornton police policy by running more than 10,000 Flock surveillance searches in two years."
🔗 Not a one-off: More Coloradans stopped by police after data errors triggered Flock alerts Boulder County
Jefferson County
Oops
Video
🔗 After pushback from police, Colorado lawmakers kill bill that would have regulated license plate cameras like Flock Legislation
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🔗 Boulder opens bids for license plate readers Boulder
🔗 As AI license plate readers spread across Colorado, grassroots movements push back Legislation
Pushback
🔗 Aspen 'holding off' on Flock cameras pending legislation Aspen
🔗 He didn't commit a crime, but Flock cam alerts keep getting him pulled over Cherry Hills Village
Gilpin County
Oops
Video
""They entered it for both," Lyons said. "It wasn't a mistake, one or the other. They just entered it for both an O and a zero, because we've run it both ways and the warrant pops up both ways."
Dausman said he tried to resolve the problem by contacting Gilpin County courts and the sheriff's office dispatch, and was told he needed to provide the name of the suspect tied to the warrant — information no one would give him because it involves an ongoing criminal investigation."
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🔗 Boulder opens bidding for license plate reader contract, inviting competitors to Flock Boulder
🔗 Privacy advocates clash with local police over license plate reader restriction bill Legislation
🔗 Colorado bill takes aim at Flock and surveillance technology. Here's what's in it. Legislation
🔗 A Colorado bill takes aim at Flock cameras, police surveillance tech. Here's what's in it. Legislation
🔗 Law enforcement agencies consider changes to street-camera surveillance, part II Pitkin County
Snowmass
Illegal
Oversharing
Notes: This article shows that Flock isn't alone; Motorola's system also shares data with ICE.
🔗 Mayor, CSPD address Flock, crime rates, and more at press briefing Colorado Springs
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"CSPD announced during the briefing that the department would be ending its use of the Flock safety cameras, but said the decision was purely financial."
🔗 Law enforcement from Aspen to Silt considers changes to street-camera surveillance in response to immigration concerns Aspen
Basalt
Garfield County
Pitkin County
Silt
Snowmass
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🔗 Proposal would add guardrails and oversight on Flock Safety cameras in Durango Durango
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🔗 License plate readers are helping ICE track people on the Western Slope Avon
Basalt
Glenwood Springs
Grand Junction
Mesa County
Silt
Summit County
🔗 Durango residents request city support for license plate reader ordinance Durango
Pushback
🔗 Petition demands citizens OK mass surveillance in Fort Collins Fort Collins
Pushback
🔗 Complaint alleges Thornton police misused Flock data Thornton
Abuse
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🔗 Commerce City expands Flock surveillance contract as Denver moves away from technology company Commerce City
Expansion
Video
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