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🔗 Temple Police Department launches drones as emergency responders TX
Temple
Drones
🔗 Pomona has a new strategy to curb prostitution: Flock cameras CA
Pomona
🔗 How the Feds Get Your Data Federal Government
🔗 Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Flock Cameras
🔗 Flock Gunshot Alerts Raise Gun Owner Privacy Concerns Audio Surveillance
🔗 Aurora police put Flock cameras in high school parking lots, raising concerns about surveillance of students CO
Aurora
🔗 Cops Are Using Flock to Spy on People for the Crime of Standing Around IL
Plano
🔗 Flock Taught Cops How to Surveil No Kings Protesters First Amendment
🔗 This Is Flock's AI Search Tool for Cops Overview
🔗 Clark County School District police gain access to hundreds of Flock surveillance cameras NV
Clark County
🔗 Clark County School District has tapped into Flock license plate reader cameras NV
Clark County
🔗 Flock security camera in Germantown park causing controversy WI
Germantown
Pushback
🔗 Flock camera on Suffolk trail brings into focus privacy, safety concerns VA
Suffolk
Pushback
🔗 Harvey, Illinois adding Flock Safety drones amid growing concerns over surveillance technology and police misuse of data IL
Harvey
Drones
🔗 Cleveland's surveillance debate may grow beyond Flock OH
Cleveland
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🔗 Flock Reportedly Tried to Turn Uber Drivers Into Mobile Snitches
🔗 Lancaster Police Department unveils new Flock Safety drone NY
Lancaster
Drones
Expansion
🔗 Flock Safety to expand in Suffolk, with near $4M installation of gunfire detection sensors NY
Suffolk County
Audio Surveillance
🔗 Surprise, Surprise: Flock Cameras Are Collecting More Than Just Your Plate And Car Information False Claims
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🔗 Area schools weigh in on linking cameras with Toledo police OH
Toledo
Expansion
🔗 How Cops Use Flock to Track People, Not Cars ""This is a classic bait-and-switch. Your town was pitched a tool to catch stolen cars and find missing kids," Tom Bowman, policy counsel, security & surveillance, at the Center for Democracy & Technology, told 404 Media in a statement. Instead, cops now have the capability to search for a specific person or description of a person across a wealth of camera networks at once. "It's like being sold a smoke detector and only later finding out it's been recording every conversation in your house.""
🔗 'Photo enforced': Speeding drivers to face tickets in Orange school zones FL
Orange County
Expansion
RedSpeed
🔗 Toledo council member proposes school camera pilot linked to Flock network, local schools weigh in OH
Toledo
🔗 Flock cameras: This SC town my triple cameras, deploy drones to aid surveillance SC
Irmo
Drones
Expansion
🔗 As Flock surveillance cams draw criticism and vandalism, Midlands town could nearly triple its fleet SC
Irmo
Drones
Expansion
🔗 Pilot program would link school cameras with Toledo police OH
Toledo
"One part of the voluntary program will give the Toledo Police Department access to exterior camera feeds on school grounds by connecting the school's camera system to TPD's security network with Flock Group Inc.
Additionally, Mr. Martinez plans to install new Flock cameras in the public rights-of-way near schools.
That includes eight new pan-tilt-zoom cameras, one new license plate reader, and two new intersection cameras [...]."
Notes: It's a good thing there aren't any problematic cases involving Flock being hooked up to third-party cameras near children! Oh, wait...
🔗 Fort Worth Police Department adds Drone as First Responder program TX
Fort Worth
Drones
🔗 LPD deploys automated surveillance technology to monitor Flower Festival crowds CA
Lompoc
🔗 Oro Valley police leasing controversial Flock Safety drones AZ
Oro Valley
Drones
🔗 Fulshear Launches State-Funded 'Drone First Responder Program' Using Flock Safety Tech TX
Fulshear
Drones
🔗 30 gunshot detectors to be removed in Roanoke after being placed at wrong locations VA
Roanoke
Audio Surveillance
🔗 Police, fire departments launch Drone as First Responder program WI
Green Bay
Drones
Paywall
🔗 Public safety officers prepare for illegal fireworks crackdown during Fourth of July. CA
Salinas
Seaside
"The Seaside Police Department plans to use drone surveillance in high-risk areas, Flock Safety cameras to identify involved vehicles and on-the-ground enforcement along with the fire department, according to a letter to Seaside property owners from the office of the city manager."
Notes: We're using drones and Flock cameras to go after kids setting off fireworks now. Priorities!
🔗 Drones as first responders coming to Tucson and Oro Valley AZ
Oro Valley
Tucson
Drones
Expansion
🔗 License Plate Readers Move Beyond Plates to Track Phones, Wearables, and Pet Microchips Analysis
SignalTrace
🔗 Sandy Springs extends school zone speed cameras contract - Appen Media GA
Sandy Springs
Renewal
🔗 Marina approves contract with Flock Safety for drone and camera trailer. CA
Marina
Drones
🔗 Normal Police win approval for $50K drone technology to help with first responses IL
Normal
Drones
🔗 Town council approves addition to Normal Police drone fleet - WGLT IL
Normal
Drones
🔗 Marina City Council to approve drone first responder program CA
Marina
Drones
🔗 Does Flock Safety Keep Women Safe? CA
Los Angeles
Pushback
"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.
🔗 Safer roads start with real-time visibility, says Flock "Flock will showcase solutions for real-time crash and incident detection, wrong-way driving alerts, AI-powered traffic analytics and continuous vehicle counting, speed trend analysis for safer roadways, live roadway monitoring with solar-powered cameras and drones, and faster coordination across DOTs, law enforcement and emergency response teams."
🔗 SF tech investor pours $9M into illegal dumping fight in Oakland CA
Oakland
"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."
🔗 Tampa's latest crack down on speeding violations draws criticism Tampa
Pushback
Notes: Just a reminder that when you're told Flock Safety cameras aren't used for traffic enforcement, that may mean "unless they're laundered through RedSpeed."
🔗 Utica Police looking to deploy drones as first responders NY
Utica
Drones
🔗 This Company Will Add Phone, AirPod, and Smartwatch Trackers to License Plate Readers SignalTrace
🔗 AirSight and Flock Announce Strategic Partnership Following Grant Parish Smuggling Bust Flockaganda
"The partnership feeds real-time AirGuard detections — including operator location — directly into FlockOS, placing airspace threats in the same operating picture agencies already use for License Plate Reader (LPR) alerts, video, and other live data."
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🔗 Drone Detection Tech Integrates With Public Safety Software Drones
"AirSight, developer of the AirGuard airspace security platform, has integrated its real-time drone tracking data directly into FlockOS, a public-safety operating system utilized by numerous law enforcement agencies. The combined system automatically funnels drone positions, altitudes and operator locations into the same interface agencies use for license plate readers and video feeds."
Notes: Now not only do they have drones, but they're tracking your drones!
🔗 Shafter police could start using Flock drone program during emergency responses: agenda CA
Shafter
Drones
🔗 New Report Finds Widespread Use of License Plate Readers for School Residency and Background Checks
🔗 'BusPatrol' Put AI Cameras in Tens of Thousands of School Buses. Now They Want to Give Cops Access Analysis
BusPatrol
"BusPatrol plans to scan the license plates of all vehicles the buses drive past, and then let law enforcement search that data. The plan would essentially turn school buses into roaming surveillance vehicles."
Notes: Who could have seen this coming, except for everyone?More coverage:
🔗 Roanoke mayor speaks on privacy concerns over new surveillance tools VA
Roanoke
Audio Surveillance
🔗 Roanoke mayor addresses budget cuts, FLOCK surveillance technology VA
Roanoke
Audio Surveillance
🔗 FBI seeks US-wide access to license plate cameras, wants "data in near real time" Federal Government
Oversharing
🔗 Private companies compile license plate intel. The FBI wants it, too
🔗 Drones used by first responders raise privacy questions MA
ACLU
Drones
Video
🔗 FWPD's Raven may improve response, but stretches the limits of public surveillance IN
Fort Wayne
Audio Surveillance
"Surveillance, once expanded, rarely retreats on its own."
🔗 Fort Wayne Police testing audio detection system aimed at speeding up crime response IN
Fort Wayne
Audio Surveillance
Video
🔗 Cook County Sheriff's Office pitches expanded surveillance network IL
Cook County
Expansion
🔗 FWPD begins testing on Flock surveillance cameras with audio detection IN
Fort Wayne
Audio Surveillance
Video
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🔗 NJ Police Department Combines Strong Technology & Public Safety Strategy NJ
Fort Lee
🔗 Opinion: Berkeley does not need Flock surveillance tech to stay safe CA
Berkeley
Expansion
🔗 Sarasota sheriff expands AI-powered surveillance amid privacy concerns FL
Sarasota County
Paywall
🔗 Supercharging surveillance: Sarasota sheriff taps state immigration funds for AI policing tech FL
Sarasota County
🔗 Sarasota sheriff taps state immigration funds for artificial intelligence policing tech FL
Sarasota County
🔗 Sarasota sheriff taps state immigration funds for AI policing tech FL
Sarasota County
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🔗 Memo from the Mayor SC
Columbia
Drones
🔗 Scoop: San Diego police quietly signed new Flock tech deal CA
San Diego
🔗 More people in Charlotte are adding their security cameras to a police network NC
Charlotte
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🔗 Oro Valley Police Department moves ahead with 'first responder' drones AZ
Oro Valley
Drones
🔗 New multi-million-dollar Fremont police facility looks to enhance crime-fighting efforts CA
Fremont
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🔗 Flock's Jail Drone Wants To Expand To 19 County-Wide GA
Atlanta
Drones
Notes: "We need a drone to protect the prison" turned into "we need 19 drones county-wide" so quickly and so easily.
🔗 Could adding a drone and more cameras solve crime in Irmo? Here's what town leaders think. SC
Irmo
Drones
Expansion
"Eleven license plate readers powered by Flock Safety are already scattered throughout the town, including at entrance points. The next step could be doubling that count."
🔗 Residents voice privacy fears over Oakland County police drone plan MI
Oakland County
Drones
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🔗 Oro Valley to expand police drone use with new $146K program AZ
Oro Valley
Drones
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🔗 Stockton weighs Flock police drone expansion amid surveillance concerns CA
Stockton
Drones
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🔗 Utica Tests Flock Safety Audio Monitors to Detect Gunshots NY
Utica
Audio Surveillance
🔗 Utica Police Department tests new gunfire detection system in citywide pilot NY
Utica
Audio Surveillance
🔗 Ominous Surveillance "Scarecrows" Appearing Across America Analysis
"These towers can easily plug into local police feeds via cellular networks or WiFi, bringing AI-powered facial recognition to any public or commercial location you can dream of."
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🔗 Police Used Flock to Give a Man a Traffic Ticket GA
Coffee County
"The ticket lists the offense as "Holding/supporting wireless telecommunications device," and includes the note "CAPTURED ON FLOCK CAMERA 31 MM 1 HOLDING PHONE IN LEFT HAND.""
Notes: "It's just takes pictures of license plates, not people!" And yet somehow it can tell if you're holding a cell phone.
🔗 Could 'Safer Together' Flock cameras help curb crime at Macon-Bibb businesses? GA
Bibb County
Macon
🔗 Oro Valley Approves Flock Drone Deal Amid Privacy Debate AZ
Oro Valley
Drones
🔗 Use of police 'Flock' drones for surveillance raises privacy concerns AZ
Oro Valley
Drones
Video
🔗 South Bend Police drone program provides first responders with eyes in the sky IN
South Bend
Drones
🔗 South Bend police launch Flock drone as first responder program IN
South Bend
Drones
🔗 Privacy concerns surface as Las Cruces police ask residents to register security cameras NM
Las Cruces
🔗 South Bend police launching drone as first responder program IN
South Bend
Drones
🔗 Everett's Drone as First Responder program underway WA
Everett
Drones
🔗 A new first responder: Warwick police to launch autonomous drone RI
Warwick
Drones
🔗 Tulsa police's use of Flock cameras to investigate protest activity sparks debate OK
Tulsa
Paywall
Pushback
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🔗 'Flock Safety': Las Cruces residents invited to register home, business cameras with LCPD NM
Las Cruces
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🔗 Gilroy City Council approves 'Drone as first Responder' pilot program CA
Gilroy
Drones
Video
🔗 Lewiston police department to try out Flock aerial drone NY
Lewiston
Drones
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🔗 Lewiston Police Department looking into tech to help get ahead of potential problems NY
Lewiston
Drones
🔗 Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand 'Search Party' Surveillance Beyond Dogs Cautionary Tale
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🔗 First look at Flock Safety drone coming to Greenville MS
Greenville
Drones
🔗 The SAPD reiterates that their drones will not be used to help ICE CA
Santa Ana
Drones
🔗 MJPD Enhances Emergency Response with Flock911, a New Real-Time 911 Technology Drones
🔗 Middletown tries out Flock Safety drones to help police, fire CT
Middletown
Drones
🔗 City council to decide between two companies to provide security cameras on the Woodstock Square IL
Woodstock
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