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🔗 Anti-Flock Organizers Ramp Up Bay Area Protests, Urging Cities to Cut Ties With Company
KQED NPR San Francisco · 2026-08-21
Palo Alto San Jose Pushback
🔗 Rise against the machines: the city at war with AI cameras
The Times · 2026-08-07
Paywall Vandalism
🔗 AI Cameras Read 20 Billion License Plates A Month, And Now Cities Are Turning On Them
Carscoops · 2026-07-05
NY Troy Activism Pushback
🔗 SF tech investor pours $9M into illegal dumping fight in Oakland
The Oaklandside · 2026-06-11
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."
🔗 Oakland Police Swamped by Over One Million Camera Alerts as Stolen Vehicle Notifications Are Switched Off
Guessing Headlights · 2026-06-08

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- 🔗 Oakland Police Swamped by Over One Million Camera Alerts as Stolen Vehicle Notifications Are Switched Off
  Guessing Headlights via Yahoo
🔗 Flock cameras captured over 600 million license plates in Oakland last year
The Oaklandside · 2026-06-05

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?
🔗 Flock is quietly training police to lobby their cities' leaders
The Oaklandside · 2026-05-28
🔗 Oakland police investigating Flock safety camera vandalism
KRON CW 4 San Francisco · 2026-04-29
Video
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🔗 The surveillance bombardment: Lafayette teen arrested in Bay Area Flock camera vandalism spree
The Press Democrat · 2026-04-29
Concord Moraga San Francisco Vandalism
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- 🔗 The surveillance bombardment: Lafayette teen arrested in Bay Area Flock camera vandalism spree
  The Mercury News
🔗 Flock cameras in Oakland vandalized with paint
KNTV NBC 11 San Jose · 2026-04-28
Vandalism Video
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- 🔗 Flock cameras in Oakland vandalized with paint
  KNTV NBC 11 San Jose via YouTube
🔗 Who is paint bombing Oakland's Flock cameras?
The Oaklandside · 2026-04-24
Vandalism
🔗 Sheriff's deputies thought they'd stopped a criminal. But license plate cameras led them to the wrong person
The Oaklandside · 2026-03-23
Oops
🔗 Flock cameras under fire from California communities
Spectrum News 1 · 2026-03-17
Mountain View Rancho Cordova
""Candidly, Flock representatives in private conversations have been pretty blunt about their failures," said Chief Mike Canfield of the City of Mountain View Police Department. "They've admitted that they failed, especially related to the implementation of this program for us and for other vendors.""

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- 🔗 Flock cameras under fire from California communities
  Spectrum News Local
🔗 Oakland installs controversial license plate readers to deter speeding
Oakland North · 2026-01-17

Notes: An article that unintentionally focuses on what happens when Flock cameras are installed by people who have no idea what they're doing.
🔗 California Cities are Going All in on Controversial AI License Plate Readers
Slashgear · 2025-12-28
Santa Cruz
🔗 Despite ICE concerns, Oakland revives possible $2 million deal for surveillance cameras
The Mercury News · 2025-12-16
🔗 Oakland renews $2 million Flock license plate camera deal amid ICE data concerns
San Francisco Chronicle · 2025-12-16
Backsliding Renewal
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🔗 Oakland's License Plate Camera Contract Is Back Up for a Vote. Critics Are Crying Foul
KQED NPR San Francisco · 2025-12-13
🔗 Oakland council committee rejects Flock surveillance camera expansion
The Oaklandside · 2025-11-19
Pushback
🔗 Oakland committee rejects additional Flock surveillance cameras
KNTV NBC 11 San Jose · 2025-11-19
Pushback
🔗 Oakland police hit with lawsuit for sharing license plate camera data with feds
The Oaklandside · 2025-11-18
Lawsuit Oversharing
🔗 Oakland police illegally shared license plate data: lawsuit
The San Francisco Standard · 2025-11-18
Illegal Lawsuit Oversharing
🔗 Oakland residents divided over Flock camera surveillance network
KTVU Fox 2 San Francisco · 2025-10-28
🔗 SF, Oakland cops illegally funneled license plate data to feds
The San Francisco Standard · 2025-07-14
San Francisco Illegal Immigration Oversharing
🔗 SF and Oakland police illegally shared license plate data with federal agencies: report
KGO ABC 7 San Francisco · 2025-07-14
San Francisco Illegal Oversharing
🔗 Oakland wants to grow its police surveillance camera network
The Oaklandside · 2025-07-07