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The trend continues: 4 more cities made moves to get the Flock out.

1. Framingham, MA: the cameras went off June 30 after months of resident pressure.
2. Fort Collins, CO: City Council voted 6-1 to cancel its Flock contract after months of resident pressure.
3. Woodburn, OR: the Flock contract was cancelled after discovering that DHS and ICE had been searching their data.
4. Appleton, WI: the cameras will come down by the end of July while the city writes a real surveillance policy with more oversight and guardrails.

This is a growing trend - every week new cities are turning off their Flock cameras, often due to pressure from city residents. So, GET LOUD! Attend your city council meetings and let them know you do not support Flock surveillance in your community!

Full write-up and our list of sources: https://s.vp.net/31NDp

Officer who used Flock cameras to falsely accuse Denver woman of theft will face unspecified disciplinary action

A Columbine Valley police officer who used surveillance from AI-powered license plate readers to wrongly accuse a Denver woman of stealing a $25 package will be disciplined, town officials said.

Since Sgt. Jamie Milliman’s false accusation, which sparked outrage over the department’s use of Flock cameras, the town said in a statement that it will work “to ensure that our citizens continue to have faith in our officers and department” and that the officer will receive “appropriate disciplinary action.” But the town did not reveal what discipline the officer faces and did not return emails or a voicemail from The Colorado Sun. 

“We believe in maintaining transparency and will continue to protect and serve the communities of Columbine Valley and Bow Mar with professionalism and integrity,” Columbine Valley town administrator J.D. McCrumb said in a statement issued Tuesday. 

Public records requests from The Sun for documents detailing the disciplinary action have not been fulfilled. Emails and phone calls to Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office records department, which handles Columbine Valley Police Department’s records requests, were also not returned. 

When Milliman arrived on Chrisanna Elser’s doorstep in late September, with a summons in hand, he told Elser he had “no doubt” after footage from the Flock camera in the neighboring town of Bow Mar, along with doorbell camera footage, captured her stealing a package from a porch.

https://coloradosun.com/2025/11/11/columbine-valley-police-officer-flock-disciplinary-action/

Video by Christopher Morgan
@user21732162153263

On the side of the pole overlooking kids at play, not the side facing the street. This clearly isn’t for ALPR tech and is far too easy to abuse.

Edit- This is a Flock PTZ style camera called a Condor. It’s located at a rotary park in Johnson City, TN.

Flock Safety automated license plate readers scan passing vehicles and record plate numbers, exact locations, and timestamps in real time. Police departments search these records to identify and follow specific vehicles across camera networks without needing warrants for initial capture.

Hot lists allow officers to flag individual plates for automatic alerts on future scans. Routine driving then generates persistent, attributable profiles that link a person’s vehicle to repeated movements and times across multiple days and locations.

Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department operates Flock systems through contracts that store data in cloud platforms with limited public visibility. Search justifications, data sharing with other agencies, and full retention policies remain internal, making independent audits nearly impossible for vehicle owners.

Denying individuals access to their own scan records lets agencies maintain detailed movement histories while blocking verification or correction. Citizens face major barriers to understanding who searched their data, how long it persists, or whether it reaches third parties, which creates permanent power imbalances favoring law enforcement over personal privacy.

Sources

Vegas police are big users of license plate readers. Public has little input because it's a gift

https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/vegas-police-are-big-users-of-license-plate-readers-public-has-little-input-because-its-a-gift

Details LVMPD Flock contracts, data practices, and lack of public oversight on license plate tracking.

Flock Evidence Policy

https://www.flocksafety.com/legal/flock-evidence-policy

Explains Flock’s standard 30-day data retention and deletion process for license plate records.

How to Pump the Brakes on Your Police Department's Use of Flock's Mass Surveillance License Plate Readers

https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/how-to-pump-the-brakes-on-your-police-departments-use-of-flocks-mass-surveillance-license-plate-readers

Outlines risks of Flock ALPR data sharing, retention, and lack of individual access controls.

License plate reader cameras abound but Nevada has no laws to regulate them

https://www.borderreport.com/news/license-plate-reader-cameras-abound-but-nevada-has-no-laws-to-regulate-them/

Covers widespread ALPR deployment in Nevada and absence of state-level privacy or transparency rules.

Flock Safety Privacy Policy

https://www.flocksafety.com/legal/privacy-policy

Describes how customer agencies control license plate data access and sharing rules.

Source: https://x.com/j_fishback/status/2071285703007227910

https://www.aclu.org/get-the-flock-out-toolkit

Btw , Flock is headquartered in GA ...

I told you guys the term "license plate reader" was a psyop. They chose that because it keeps people calm. People are used to plate readers. They're not used to AI driven stalking/hacking cams or whatever this nightmare fuel is.

https://www.sofx.com/license-plate-readers-move-beyond-plates-to-track-phones-wearables-and-pet-microchips/

Flock cameras read plates in real time from poles. This enables scale tracking, but poles are embedded in concrete instead of Texas A&M crash-tested slip plates.

Normal driving builds persistent profiles linking vehicles to locations over time. The result is data that follows individuals without easy opt out.

The system spreads via easy contracts but hides installation flaws like concrete embedding. Opaque decisions make misuse and safety bypasses hard to detect or audit.

Once active this enables surveillance networks while introducing crash risks from non-compliant poles, leaving people with little recourse to challenge tracking or demand safety fixes.

Roadside units scan license plates and log vehicle details with locations in real time. This enables instant matching that records every trip for later searches.

Patrol cars add scans that feed central databases building movement histories. The result is profiles of daily routines which creates pathways for tracking without warrants.

Easy adoption spreads the network fast while data sharing stays hidden from view. This opacity makes misuse hard to detect or audit as agencies join.

The system allows predicting locations or flagging groups that open doors to abuse. Individuals face little recourse to see or challenge how their data drives surveillance powers.

Flock systems use cameras in public spaces to scan license plates and record video that streams into cloud servers. Authorized accounts can then search and view footage from any connected camera at any time.

The platform automatically logs every search and viewing session. These records show exactly which accounts accessed which cameras and when, creating a running history of internal activity across the network.

Cities install the cameras through public safety contracts that claim to restrict access. Company employees can still reach the feeds directly, and the full access logs usually remain hidden unless someone specifically requests them.

Audit logs have already documented company staff viewing cameras at schools, playgrounds, and inside a Jewish community center. Residents have almost no practical way to monitor or limit this kind of internal access once the systems are running.

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— Internal access logs contradict public claims of restricted viewing and show company employees monitoring sensitive community locations.

Limited info available, please comment if you know where this was filmed or any other info.