🚨WHAT ON EARTH?!!!
Over 100 Flock cameras that were set to "go dark" at the end of June after city council voted to shut them down...
...have bizarrely just REMAINED ON and the police are still using them
On June 17, the city council's safety committee voted to END the contract because when they asked police to prove these cameras actually reduce crime, the police could point to only 3 cases that led to convictions.
So the city council let the contract expire on June 29th, but then people noticed the cameras were still up...
...because Flock VOLUNTEERED to keep running them for FREE while the city "figures it out."
In fact, police confirmed they are still running them to "keep the community safe" and the company agreed to keep the system live, despite the contract expiring.
It gets worse.
When reporters asked simple questions like... is data still being collected? Do the cameras shut off or keep recording? Who can access what was already stored? It turned out that neither the city NOR Flock would answer.
So just to recap:
The contract is expired.
The elected body said no.
Nobody re-authorized it.
Flock won't say what it's doing with the data.
...but the cameras are STILL ON and being used by police
Flock: “Our cameras only track vehicles involved in crimes.”
Me: Then why do we have photos of your cameras aimed at Kids’ gymnastics rooms, schools… and now a bike path?
That’s not "fighting crime."
That’s blanket surveillance.
We pay taxes to build roads.
We pay taxes for the Flock cameras on those roads.
Then the state uses both to track us like criminals for simply driving on the same infrastructure we funded.
Only government could make you pay for your own surveillance and call it “safety.”
If Flock cameras everywhere become normalized for our kids, what will be normal for their kids?
Once surveillance becomes invisible, people stop questioning it, opposition dulls, and attention fades.
The most powerful systems don't need enforcement, they just need acceptance.
🚨 Flock has a hidden weakness many don’t know: public records requests.
Activists have successfully forced at least 8 cities to shut down Flock programs, either by exposing unauthorized data access or showing the footage was publicly accessible.
One of the most effective ways to take down Flock cameras? FOIA/PRA requests.
Here’s a template to file one in your city:
To the Custodian of Records:
Pursuant to the (your state here) Public Records Act (your state's public records act code.), I request access to and copies of the following public records relating to the (your local police) Police Department’s surveillance camera network reportedly consisting of more than 2,600 cameras deployed throughout the city.
Please provide records covering the period January 1, 2020 through present unless otherwise specified.
1. Policies and Legal Authority
All policies, procedures, memoranda, directives, or legal analyses governing:
-The deployment and operation of surveillance cameras within __________
-Any legal justification for the program under federal or state constitutional law
-Policies governing Fourth Amendment considerations or privacy protections
-Any City Council ordinances or resolutions authorizing the camera network
2. Contracts and Vendors
All contracts, agreements, memoranda of understanding, purchase orders, or amendments with vendors or service providers related to:
-Surveillance cameras
-Automated license plate readers
-Real-time crime centers
-Video analytics, facial recognition, or artificial intelligence
-Data storage or cloud services used for camera footage
Please include vendor proposals, RFP responses, and bid documents.
3. Camera Locations
Records identifying:
-The number and location of cameras deployed
-Maps, GIS datasets, or inventories of surveillance devices
-Any classification of cameras as public, private-partner, or third-party integrated cameras
(If precise coordinates are withheld, provide generalized location records or district-level inventories.)
4. Data Retention and Access
All records describing:
-Video retention schedules
-Policies for deletion or archiving of footage
-Which agencies or departments have access to the camera network
-Any data sharing agreements with other agencies including but not limited to:
-(your state) Highway Patrol -Federal agencies (FBI, DHS, ICE, etc.) -Regional task forces
5. Private Camera Integration Programs
All records relating to programs that integrate privately owned cameras into the police network, including:
-Agreements with homeowners, businesses, or HOAs
-Terms of participation
-Data access rights granted to the police department
6. Surveillance Technology Capabilities
Records describing whether the system includes or supports:
-Facial recognition
-License plate recognition
-Behavioral analytics
-Crowd detection
-Real-time monitoring centers
7. Crime Reduction Claims
All records, reports, studies, or internal analyses supporting claims that the surveillance network caused reductions in crime, including:
-Statistical reports
-Internal evaluations
-Communications discussing the effectiveness of the system
8. Communications
Emails, memoranda, and internal communications between (your city) Police Department personnel, City officials, or vendors referencing:
-Expansion of the camera network
-Privacy concerns
-Public opposition or legal review
Search terms should include: “camera network”, “surveillance cameras”, “real time crime center”, "Aerodome", "Raven", “ALPR”, “Flock”, “facial recognition”, and “camera integration”.
Format
Please provide records in electronic format via email or download link.
If any records are withheld, please provide the specific statutory exemption relied upon and produce all reasonably segregable portions of responsive documents.
Fee Waiver
This request concerns matters of significant public interest involving government surveillance and constitutional rights, and any fees should be waived or minimized.
I look forward to your response within the statutory timeframe.
How to legally and lawfully GET RID OF ALL @Flock_Safety
🚨 Flock has a hidden weakness many don’t know: public records requests.
Activists have successfully forced at least 8 cities to shut down Flock programs, either by exposing unauthorized data access or showing the footage was publicly accessible.
One of the most effective ways to take down Flock cameras?
FOIA Freedom of Info Requests
PRA Public Records Requests
Credit to @JasonBassler1 for a template to file one in your city:
We are not mad enough. This is a print out of all the fees just for a permit to build a 747 square foot 2 bed, 1 bath single family dwelling
Impact Fees:
- Sheriff Residential SMI Fee: $1,979.00
- Fire Department Impact: $1,979.00
- General Government: $2,174.00
- Library: $421.00
- Park: $1,033.00
- County Public Protection: $2,557.00
- Other Impact Fees (including Road/Country Road): $17.23 – $145.52
Building Permit and Plan Check Fees
- Base Building Permit/Plan Check: $7.60 per sq ft (living area)
- Automation/Software Fee (Automation Maintenance + Plan Check Software): $19,096.00
Supplemental / Trade Fees
- Electrical Living Area Fee: $895.50
- Mechanical: $141.00
- Plumbing: $67.00
Development Review Fees
- Environmental Health: $75.00
- Fire Safety: $52.00
- Planning: $99.00
Other Development Review (various):
- $69.00, $75.00, etc.
Total Fees: $30,803.22
This is JUST FEES, this includes no building
Government is way too big. We are being robbed blind. This is a major factor of why housing is so expensive and why so many people don’t even bother building anymore
Every state is different but this is outrageous
If the government classifies these as weeds and manufactured chemicals to eliminate them, call me crazy, but I’m gonna automatically assume I need to eat them.
You thought flock cameras were bad...
Meet Clearview AI
Let's get into it.
(Watch to the end so you can see what your neighborhood will look like with a data center).
Clearview AI commonly deployed around data center facilities, scrapes billions of public images IE: social media, to build a massive database for facial recognition.
That's just one. Amazon Rekognition, Microsoft Azure Face, Google Cloud Vision use facial recognition, and tailgating surveillance to surveil the perimeter around these digital prisons.
All of these AI surveillance platforms layer in facial recognition from each other. The data centers handle the compute making it, well, Surveillance Capitalism.
DHS, and other law enforcement are trialing these systems.
autonomous robot driving through the field at night. no chemicals. no pesticides. just UV light killing pathogens and pests while everyone sleeps. this is @tricrobotics.
this is what chemical-free pest control looks like at scale.
This man is a hero!! @MOCleanSkies
I’m just finding him. May God place a protective barrier around him and his family. May the evil people poisoning us be held accountable! We the people want clear skies!! #Chemtrails#geoengineering