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Senator Bernie Sanders, Representative Ocasio-Cortez, and Senator Jeff Merkley introduced the Ban Flock Act on Friday, which would stop federal agencies from using automatic license plate readers.

404media.coLawmakers Introduce Multiple Laws to Curb Flock After 404 Media CoverageSenator Bernie Sanders, Representative Ocasio-Cortez, and Senator Jeff Merkley introduced the Ban Flock Act on Friday, which would stop federal agencies from using automatic license plate readers.

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Here's how you regulate them: make it too expensive for them to exist. Constantly having to fix and replace them and spend money on new equipment and man-hours etc. will work better than any law ever will. WE must be the ones who watch the watchers. The GOAL is to prevent them from watching.

Who gives a fuck what laws they pass? Chop these fucking things down and uproot them like weeds. Living under constant, ubiquitous state surveillance is not freedom. This shit must die.

Good! I was waiting to pick up groceries in my car when a weird car with cameras on frames on the outside of the car went up and down the rows capturing license plates. It was the strangest thing, almost violating. That was about a year ago.

Sanders’ announcement says that one reason for the legislation is Flock has shared state information with federal officials. In May 2025, 404 Media revealed local cops were doing lookups in Flock for ICE. After that report, Flock made dramatic changes to its product.

404media.coLawmakers Introduce Multiple Laws to Curb Flock After 404 Media CoverageSenator Bernie Sanders, Representative Ocasio-Cortez, and Senator Jeff Merkley introduced the Ban Flock Act on Friday, which would stop federal agencies from using automatic license plate readers.

404 Media also reveaeled that California cops investigated an “immigration protest” using Flock lookups, and, using data from the @eff.org, that cops used Flock to monitor No Kings protests around the country. We also recently reported Flock itself taught cops how to surveil No Kings protesters.

404media.coLawmakers Introduce Multiple Laws to Curb Flock After 404 Media CoverageSenator Bernie Sanders, Representative Ocasio-Cortez, and Senator Jeff Merkley introduced the Ban Flock Act on Friday, which would stop federal agencies from using automatic license plate readers.

I hate everything Flock is. It and other companies like it must be burned down. I see legitimate reasons for license plate readers in law enforcement if there are court orders to review the data and iron clad protection to guarantee their use. If that can’t be done, then we don’t need them. 

This legislation is too limited. There are all kinds of surveillance tools being used without the publics knowledge and I assure you being misused by both public and private entities. Flock is the hot button topic right now mostly already being addressed community by community.