Link Resource Database

Links to reliable sources (news articles, research, and analysis) for informed opposition to dragnet mass surveillance.

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• 🔗 Pomona has a new strategy to curb prostitution: Flock cameras
  Inland Valley Daily Bulletin · 2026-10-20
  Pomona
• 🔗 LPD deploys automated surveillance technology to monitor Flower Festival crowds
  Lompoc Record · 2026-06-30
  Lompoc
• 🔗 Public safety officers prepare for illegal fireworks crackdown during Fourth of July.
  Monterey County Now · 2026-06-25
  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."

• 🔗 Marina approves contract with Flock Safety for drone and camera trailer.
  Monterey County Now · 2026-06-19
  Marina Drones
• 🔗 Marina City Council to approve drone first responder program
  Monterey Herald · 2026-06-15
  Marina Drones
• 🔗 Does Flock Safety Keep Women Safe?
  Knock LA · 2026-06-15
  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.""

• 🔗 SF tech investor pours $9M into illegal dumping fight in Oakland
  The Oaklandside · 2026-06-11
  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."

• 🔗 Shafter police could start using Flock drone program during emergency responses: agenda
  KGET NBC 17 Bakersfield · 2026-05-29
  Shafter Drones
• 🔗 Opinion: Berkeley does not need Flock surveillance tech to stay safe
  Berkeleyside · 2026-05-06
  Berkeley Expansion
• 🔗 Scoop: San Diego police quietly signed new Flock tech deal
  Axios San Diego · 2026-04-29
  San Diego
• 🔗 New multi-million-dollar Fremont police facility looks to enhance crime-fighting efforts
  KRON CW 4 San Francisco · 2026-04-29
  Fremont

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  • 🔗 New multi-million-dollar Fremont police facility looks to enhance crime-fighting efforts
    KRON CW 4 San Francisco via Yahoo
• 🔗 Stockton weighs Flock police drone expansion amid surveillance concerns
  The Stockton Record · 2026-03-30
  Stockton Drones

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  • 🔗 Stockton weighs Flock police drone expansion amid surveillance concerns
    The Stockton Record via Yahoo

  More coverage (10 related entries):

  • 🔗 City approves $3.15M drone program
    Stocktonia
  • 🔗 Public raises surveillance concerns as Stockton OKs police drone program
    The Stockton Record
  • 🔗 Stockton expands contract with Flock Safety after public pushback regarding data sharing
    KOVR CBS 13 Sacramento
  • 🔗 Stockton City Council to debate reallocating Sierra Vista funds for other housing projects
    Stocktonia
  • 🔗 Stockton Weighs Expansion of Flock Police Drone Surveillance
    Stockton Today
  • 🔗 Stockton approves $3.15M police drone program despite public opposition
    Stocktonia
  • 🔗 Stockton Police Department to use drones despite community concerns
    KCRA NBC 3 Sacramento
  • 🔗 Stockton to add drones to police response, raising privacy concerns
    KXTV ABC 10 Sacramento
  • 🔗 Stockton to add drones to police response, raising privacy concerns
    KXTV ABC 10 Sacramento via Yahoo
  • 🔗 Stockton to add drones to police response, raising privacy concerns
    KXTV ABC 10 Sacramento via YouTube
  • 🔗 Stockton approved Flock drones. Here's what the system is — and why it has drawn scrutiny elsewhere
    Stocktonia
  • 🔗 A California city just approved $3.15 million in police drones that respond to 911 calls in 30 seconds
    TNW
• 🔗 Gilroy City Council approves 'Drone as first Responder' pilot program
  KSBW NBC 8 Monterey · 2026-03-03
  Gilroy Drones Video
• 🔗 The SAPD reiterates that their drones will not be used to help ICE
  New Santa Ana · 2026-02-06
  Santa Ana Drones