To: State and city elected officials nationwide
Block Flock and Protect Americans' Privacy and Data!
Automatic License Plate Readers (ALPRs) from companies like Flock Safety are popping up across the country, photographing every vehicle that passes and logging them into massive nationwide databases, making it possible to track anyone’s movements.
We’ve already seen this mass surveillance tool abused. ICE has used Flock to pursue immigrants without warrants. Kansas officers used ALPRs to track down a man who wrote an op-ed critical of the police department. A Colorado officer wrongfully accused a woman of theft based on Flock data and then refused to look at evidence proving her innocence.
Tell your state and city elected officials: Cut contracts with Flock Safety, and pass strong regulations to protect our privacy and data!
We’ve already seen this mass surveillance tool abused. ICE has used Flock to pursue immigrants without warrants. Kansas officers used ALPRs to track down a man who wrote an op-ed critical of the police department. A Colorado officer wrongfully accused a woman of theft based on Flock data and then refused to look at evidence proving her innocence.
Tell your state and city elected officials: Cut contracts with Flock Safety, and pass strong regulations to protect our privacy and data!
Why is this important?
Communities across the country are organizing against Flock’s mass surveillance. At least 56 municipalities have deactivated, canceled, or rejected Flock contracts this year, from North Carolina to California to Massachusetts.
Whether or not Flock has come to your community yet, state and city leaders have the power to act. They can:
Whether or not Flock has come to your community yet, state and city leaders have the power to act. They can:
- Cut or refuse contracts with Flock Safety and similar ALPR vendors
- Limit data retention to hours or days, not weeks or months
- Limit data sharing, prohibiting access by other government agencies absent a warrant for a felony crime recognized under local or state law
- Limit usage to felony investigations, missing persons cases, identifying unregistered or uninsured vehicles, and narrow non-enforcement uses like electronic toll collection
- Require annual usage reporting and restrict ALPR data availability through open records requests, so it can’t be used for stalking or exploiting someone’s data for entertainment
ALPRs enable warrantless tracking, fuel mass surveillance, and produce wrongful accusations with real harm to real people.
Sign the petition now calling on state and city elected officials to block Flock and protect our privacy!