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🔗 EFF's State Legislative Agenda to End ALPR Mass Surveillance Legislation
Overview
🔗 Marin County ALPR Data Accessed by Federal, Out-of-State Agencies, Defying Deal CA
Marin County
ACLU
Illegal
Oversharing
🔗 We Demand More Information on How Marin Cops Illegally Shared Flock ALPR Data CA
Marin County
Illegal
Oversharing
🔗 While the Country Rejects ALPR Mass Surveillance, SF Settles for Weak Safeguards CA
San Francisco
🔗 The High Crime of "LMAO": How Cops Are Treating Mass Surveillance As a Joke Opacity
Overview
🔗 Cops Play Hide and Seek About Using Spy Tech to Avoid Scrutiny and Bad PR
🔗 Texas and Florida Step Back from ALPRs AZ
FL
TX
Statewide
Pushback
🔗 Too Little, Too Late: Flock Admits Their Technology Needs Reforms Analysis
🔗 This Searchable Tool Is Helping Track Flock Surveillance Cameras in Your City Pushback
🔗 Hundreds of Drone-as-First-Responder Programs Could Soon Be Launched Across the Country Drones
🔗 Victory! Flock Ends Rollout of Audio "Distress Detection" of Human Voices Audio Surveillance
Notes: Are we sure they're not just planning to bring the feature back under a different name in a few months?
🔗 How the Watch Dogs Video Game Series Mirrored and Predicted Real-World Digital Rights Issues
🔗 Lawmakers Must Act Now to Prevent Armed Police Drones
🔗 Are Your Local Police Using Flock Safety ALPRs to Scan for Immigrants? Analysis
Immigration
"Buried in the Flock Safety administrative interface, there is a drop-down menu where agencies select which NCIC topics to subscribe to. If Immigration Violator is selected, the local agency will receive an alert that a vehicle ICE is looking for has been sighted."
🔗 We're Fighting Mass Surveillance Tech—and Winning Activism
🔗 More License Plate Reader Mission Creep: School Residency Verification, Background Checks, and Noise Complaints Analysis
"Buford City Schools in Georgia, which serves only about 6,000 students, illustrates the scale of this prying. Between January 2025 and March 2026, school police ran more than 375 searches where officers listed school residency verification, or simply "RV," as the reason for the search. That accounts for more than half of all ALPR searches in that period, and in those three months of 2026, three-quarters of all searches were related to residency verification."
🔗 Traffic Violation! License Plate Reader Mission Creep Is Already Here
🔗 The Foilies 2026: Recognizing the Worst in Government Transparency Analysis
"Taunton Police Department, Mass.: The police department told the ACLU of Massachusetts to cough up $1.8 million if the organization wanted its network audit logs–the highest public records fee we documented this year."
Notes: Describes some of the FOIA obstruction agencies have engaged in to conceal the details of their use of Flock cameras.Copies at:
🔗 San Jose Can Protect Immigrants by Ending Flock Surveillance System CA
San Jose
Immigration
🔗 "Free" Surveillance Tech Still Comes at a High and Dangerous Cost Analysis
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🔗 EFFecting Change: Get the Flock Out of Our City Activism
Notes: Announces a live event on Feb 19th, 2026.Copies at:
🔗 EFF's Investigations Expose Flock Safety's Surveillance Abuses: 2025 in Review Analysis
Oversharing
Scope Creep
🔗 Procurement Power—When Cities Realized They Can Just Say No: 2025 in Review Analysis
🔗 How to Identify Automated License Plate Readers at the U.S.-Mexico Border Activism
🔗 Anti-Surveillance Mapmaker Refuses Flock Safety's Cease and Desist Demand First Amendment
🔗 How Cops Are Using Flock Safety's ALPR Network to Surveil Protesters and Activists First Amendment
Scope Creep
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🔗 Lawsuit Challenges San Jose's Warrantless ALPR Mass Surveillance CA
San Jose
Lawsuit
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🔗 Washington Court Rules That Data Captured on Flock Safety Cameras Are Public Records WA
Skagit County
Lawsuit
🔗 License Plate Surveillance Logs Reveal Racist Policing Against Romani People Abuse
Analysis
🔗 Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a Missing Person. It Was an Abortion Investigation TX
Analysis
False Claims
Reproductive Rights
"That sheriff has since been arrested and indicted on felony counts in an unrelated sexual harassment and whistleblower retaliation case. He has also been charged with aggravated perjury for allegedly lying to a grand jury."
🔗 Flock's Gunshot Detection Microphones Will Start Listening for Human Voices Analysis
Scope Creep
Notes: This is particularly relevant in light of Flock's efforts to turn their "ALPR only" cameras into full video surveillance.
🔗 Flock Safety's Feature Updates Cannot Make Automated License Plate Readers Safe Technology
🔗 Victory! Austin Organizers Cancel City's Flock ALPR Contract TX
Austin
Success
Terminated
🔗 San Diegans Push Back on Flock ALPR Surveillance CA
San Diego
🔗 She Got an Abortion. So A Texas Cop Used 83,000 Cameras to Track Her Down. Reproductive Rights
🔗 New ALPR Vulnerabilities Prove Mass Surveillance Is a Public Safety Threat Security Problem
🔗 01-31-2024 letter to California AG Rob Bonta re: enforcing SB34 on ALPRs CA
Illegal
Oversharing
"Unfortunately, we have identified dozens of California LEAs that continue to share ALPR information with out-of-state agencies in violation of the law, including several that have expressly rejected the law as clarified by the Attorney General's Office."
🔗 Automated License Plate Readers Threaten Abortion Access. Here's How Policymakers Can Mitigate the Risk Analysis
Reproductive Rights
🔗 Data Driven 2: California Dragnet—New Data Set Shows Scale of Vehicle Surveillance in the Golden State CA
Analysis
"In 2019 alone, just 82 agencies collected more than 1 billion license plate scans using ALPRs. Yet, 99.9% of this surveillance data was not actively related to an investigation when it was collected."
🔗 Data Driven: Explore How Cops Are Collecting and Sharing Our Travel Patterns Using Automated License Plate Readers Analysis
🔗 Things to Know Before Your Neighborhood Installs an Automated License Plate Reader Analysis
Technology
🔗 EFF Calls on California to End Vendor-Driven ALPR Training CA
🔗 How License Plate Covers Would Protect Vulnerable Communities CA
🔗 Mass Surveillance at Public Gatherings Is Why We Need Oversight Policies CA
Del Mar
Cautionary Tale
"Perhaps the biggest problem with this tactic is that the police had no specific target. Rather, this was a dragnet operation that collected information on thousands of innocent people, without evidence of any particular threat or criminal wrongdoing. According to officials, there were no arrests made or investigative leads generated as a result of this mass surveillance. What they did collect, however, was a list of individuals who apparently have an interest in firearms."
🔗 Street Level Surveillance: Automated License Plate Readers Analysis
🔗 Data Driven: What Is ALPR? Analysis
