The amendment runs a single sentence: “A recipient of assistance under Title 23, United States Code, may not use automated license plate readers for any purpose other than tolling.”
'DeFlock' founder Will Freeman was featured last night on Discovery Channel’s 'Conspiracies & Cover-Ups'.
More and more people are starting to pay attention.
The most powerful weapon against mass surveillance is mass awareness.
Lets keep it up!
Available on HBO MAX.
*Man pictured is the show's Host*
Ran into Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety Chief David Boysen today while grabbing a blueberry lemonade at the best coffee shop in downtown Kalamazoo, and he confirmed a major update regarding our local surveillance data. Chief Boysen confirmed to me today that KDPS has once again removed the Grand Rapids Police Department’s access to its Flock license plate reader system.
This comes after I brought critical information to his attention regarding a mystery account on the system. A source identified that the "J Mar" account on GRPD’s Flock system isn't an individual officer. Instead, it is a shared account that GRPD provided to the Joint Marshal Task Force—a multi-jurisdictional fugitive apprehension team spearheaded by the U.S. Marshals Service.
Why does this matter? The Joint Marshal Task Force has participated in Immigration Enforcement activity.
By allowing an unaccountable, shared task force account into the system, GRPD essentially created a backdoor that threatens to violate Kalamazoo's policies against using city resources for civil immigration enforcement.
Kalamazoo is supposed to have 100% control over who sees our data. It is good to see that after listening to the breakdown, Chief Boysen confirmed the access has been cut to protect community trust.
Among the ideas: a "total ban on all cellular and GPS-capable devices within city limits," an end to outward-facing cameras, and a return to paper-only records and cash transactions.
"We are going back to 1880," Flowers wrote in the letter. "With each paper ledgers and cash only."
That's right. Flowers, after losing the contract of an advanced technology company, now hopes to send his city back to prior centuries, to a time when there was no technology at all.
And Flowers didn't stop with his (likely facetious) plan to ban phones within Bandera city limits. He added he hopes to employ a total ban on all outward-facing cameras, as well as a "total termination of all internet services and electronic record-keeping.
"Let’s take Bandera back to 1880 properly. No double standards, no hypocrisy. If [License Plate Recognition devices] are 'unconstitutional' and invade our right to 'public privacy,' we need to be courageous enough to go all the way. I look forward to the 'Privacy First' crowd showing up to support these bans….just remember to leave your phones at home."
ASAP: call Rep. Rick Larsen 202-225-2605 on the House Transportation Committee and ask him to ✅️support✅️ the Perry-Garcia Amendment to the Build America Act. Tell him to support the Perry-Garcia Amendment and prevent these companies from spying on American citizens.
⏳️Vote is supposed to happen Thursday 5/21 so get your calls in while you can. You can also leave him a message at 425-252-3188 and 360-733-4500
“It’s something we’re gradually decreasing, not because it’s not useful, it’s very useful, we love it; however, it’s cost-prohibitive without grant funding,” Rhoads said. He added that the grant funding “has largely gone away.”
The reduction follows the department’s decision to get rid of its gunshot detection system, also owned by Flock Safety, after grant funding for that system ran out as well."
Albemarle County and Charlottesville are using cameras from a company called Altumint around school zones and this has been the case since last August. There was some push back against the city contracting Flock, but Altumint is not any better. Are folks aware that Altumint’s own website brags about using AI to document and track vehicles ‘even with missing or obfuscated plates’? This is clearly a privacy issue and a massive breach of public trust.
Has anyone brought this up to city council or the county’s Board of Supervisors?
There are TONS of Flock cameras all around the IE. You are being watched and logged everywhere you go. Use the map at the following link to see where:
https://maps.deflock.org/?lat=33.9120&lng=-117.3539&zoom=10.16
Pretty happy to live here.
At the end of June the Illinois Secretary of State ran an audit of Flock data that showed that Flock had improperly shared ALPR data with the feds. In August Evanston city council shut down all the Flock cameras and told Flock they were terminating the contract.
Flock put them back.
Evanston immediately sent them a Cease and Desist and wrapped them all in black plastic. Flock took them back down.
Except they left two.
In March our local paper noticed, asked the city WTF‽ and the city made Flock take them down.
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The mental gymnastics of supporting Flock by the guy that invested $275M last year to expand the company.
https://www.instagram.com/reels/DX0A6Jhx0jP/
This is happening across the US, and no one in our county either knows about this corruption or is willfully blind to it.
You couldn't possibly understand what it feels like to have your life destroyed (going on 6 years) by a dangerous—a career offender who faced no punishment—cop. The county needs an outside agency to conduct an internal audit to investigate BSO records. There are so many unanswered IMPORTANT questions. They're here to protect us, and I believe they are only abusing us. It is pertinent that BSO is audited from the ground up especially by an agency with ZERO ties—perhaps even one out of state—to prevent false narratives or quid pro quo. There is more going on than a budget dispute. And personally, I think it's more important.
I just wanted to share that I am not making up this abhorrent trend, which has been happening for far too long and is still ongoing.
I know -- willing to bet my dogs -- that this happening within the Broward Sheriff's Office. They need an internal audit of the entire agency - access to any record or data they ask for. Preferably by an out-of-state agency with no care for protecting this agency, because they don't care about them personally.
Thoughts?
Of course Flock would bid on it...
How about not having an Orwellian "safety" network
Innocent until proven guilty
4th Amendment
Time to bring the rain
I'm a dad in Dunwoody, GA who's been investigating Flock Safety's contract with the Dunwoody Police Department since January 2026.
On March 25, 2026, during the Dunwoody City Council Strategic Planning Retreat, the police chief told the Mayor and every council member on camera:
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You can verify it yourself at the 4:03:13 timestamp of the City's own YouTube video.
What are "shot detectors" actually doing?
Calling them gun-shot detectors is the least alarming framing possible. They are high-powered microphones that are already picking up human voices. Flock got caught sending recordings overseas to gig workers who were training their AI models to "distinguish between an adult and a child" — per their own training materials.
ICE Access
At a February 23rd council meeting, a councilwoman asked whether Dunwoody was sharing its data with ICE. Major Krieg's answer: "Ultimately we're sharing with any law enforcement agency that's reaching out to help us in a law enforcement capacity."
The Dunwoody Network Audit logs back this up: 35,932 searches in 2025 by DHS, CBP, and USPIS on data from anyone living, driving, or walking through Dunwoody.
Then on May 13th, after I filed an open records request for the Flock system settings, Dunwoody had in the coincidence of the lifetime just toggled on filters blocking immigration and abortion-related searches, right before handing over the records.
Worth noting: those filters don't prevent someone from searching for those reasons and just writing something else as the justification. That wouldn't show up in any audit trail.
Dunwoody is still opted into nationwide data sharing with 1,000+ external agencies, auto-approved without any human review. Since April 13th alone, 37 new agencies were auto-approved, including departments as far away as Louisiana, Ohio, and Virginia. Every single one of those is another vector for misuse with zero meaningful oversight.
And when a Dunwoody officer was caught using Flock illegally for personal benefit? She walked away without being charged. The system that tracks every citizen regardless of whether they've committed a crime apparently doesn't apply the same standard to the people operating it.
The Part That Should Make Everyone Uncomfortable
The City has already passed an ordinance banning "hate crimes" in 2019.
Here's what the ordinance actually says:
"Discriminate, discrimination or discriminatory means any act, policy or practice that, regardless of intent, has the effect of subjecting any person to differential treatment as a result of that person's actual or perceived… national origin."
The ordinance also requires the City to:
Council members present and voting when that passed: Denis Shortal, Lynn Deutsch, John Heneghan, Tom Lambert, Terry Nall, Jim Riticher, and Pam Tallmadge.
Lynn Deutsch is now the Mayor. Lambert and Heneghan still serve on the council.
All three were sitting in the room on March 25th when the chief said the quiet part out loud. None of them said a word.
Even Flock's Own Ethics Policy Prohibits This
Flock's own ethical creed states they "will not adopt technology that... has significant potential for disparate impact on historically marginalized groups."
And two sitting U.S. congressmen (Krishnamoorthi and Garcia) have launched a formal congressional investigation into Flock over its role in enabling surveillance that threatens "the privacy, safety, and civil liberties of women, immigrants, and other vulnerable Americans." Their words: "Flock Group Inc. cannot claim to protect public safety while enabling surveillance that undermines reproductive freedom and civil rights."
Not calling the police is not a crime.
The City Council has one lever here: they can choose not to renew the contract. That's it. What they cannot do is keep pretending they didn't hear what their police chief said.