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Tell Congress to ban Flock’s totalitarian camera network!

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    Tell Congress to ban Flock’s totalitarian camera network!

    Petition to Congress:
    We urge you to support legislation to withhold funding from police departments and municipalities who maintain contracts with Flock or other automatic license plate readers. Flock has a network of invasive surveillance cameras nationwide. Law enforcement are using Flock's cameras to stalk people, infringe on privacy rights, discriminate, and target people based on First Amendment protected speech and protest.

    Silicon Valley's biggest investors and police departments across the country have turned Flock into a totalitarian mass surveillance network.1

    Flock's 120,000 automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras track people to their jobs, dates, homes, doctor's appointments, places of worship, and everywhere in between. And at least 50 law enforcement officers have been accused of or charged with abusing surveillance data, including 26 cases of officers stalking women.2

    There's a growing bipartisan movement to ban Flock and similar ALPR cameras nationwide. Our lawmakers must remove these dangerous, regularly abused spying tools from the over 6,000 communities they operate in.

    Sign the petition: Tell Congress to ban Flock cameras NOW!

    Individual police officers are handed the keys to Flock surveillance footage with little oversight or regulation.4

    New reports have come out weekly about law enforcement abuse of Flock cameras. ICE is also able to access Flock data, and has used the cameras to hunt people down.5

    Lawmakers are introducing a bipartisan bill to withhold funding from police departments and local governments who use ALPR cameras like Flock to mass surveil, stalk, and prey on people. Congress must pass this legislation to protect our civil liberties, privacy rights, and physical safety.

    Sign the petition: Defund Flock. Tell Congress to withhold funding from cities that spy on people with Flock cameras!

    Sources:

    1. Washington Post, "How rogue officers turned a nationwide camera network into a tool for stalking," August 2, 2026.
    2. Ibid.
    3. Ibid.
    4. Ibid.
    5. ACLU, "Flock’s Aggressive Expansions Go Far Beyond Simple Driver Surveillance," August 18, 2025.
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