Get the Flock Out - Fighting Creepy Cameras Tracking Us

Flock is just one of many tech companies trying to profit off invading our privacy and tracking our movements and data with Automated License Plate Reader (ALPR) cameras on our streets. These tech companies all share the same problems, and we want them out of our communities. No Flock. No ALPRs. No exceptions. No excuses. Tell Congress to get these creepy cameras out of our communities now.

What the Flock is Flock?

Automatic license plate reader (ALPR) companies like Flock Safety are quietly trying to build a nationwide mass surveillance system. If there are Flock cameras in your city, they are tracking, logging, and sharing your movements without a warrant.

But we're not powerless. More and more communities throughout Michigan are rejecting these creepy cameras — and yours can be one of them!

Fight Flock in Your Community

Flock's ALPR cameras aren't like your normal traffic cameras. This surveillance technology records and tracks every car that comes into view, and then an AI algorithm catalogs the make, model, color, license plate number, bumper stickers, and even scratches.

This personal information is then uploaded into a nationwide database that any law enforcement agency with a Flock contract can search — with few regulations or oversight on how they use what they find.

Fighting Flock – and Winning

On October 1st, the ACLU of Michigan held a “Get the Flock Out” virtual townhall to discuss the growing threat of ALPRs to our privacy and how you can organize against these mass surveillance tech giants in your community. You can watch the townhall using the link below.

"Get the Flock Out!" Virtual Townhall
Get the Flock Out Toolkit

See what Michigan Communities have worked to end or refused to enter a contract with Flock:

  • Bay City, MI
  • Clawson, MI
  • Eastpointe, MI
  • Ferndale, MI
  • Frenchtown Township, MI
  • Independence Township, MI
  • Lapeer, MI
  • Lincoln Park, MI
  • Milford, MI
  • Monroe County, MI
  • South Lyon, MI
  • Sturgis, MI
  • Westland, MI

Want to know if your community has Flock cameras? Check out the interactive map below:

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