DeFlock Redmond

⚠️ New: Target have installed ALPR surveillance cameras at the Redmond, WA location!! These appear to be the Axis Q1800-LE model: www.axis.com/products/axi... It sounds like this might be rolling out nationwide, much like Home Depot and Lowe's have done with Flock! 😩

"Garrett Langley, the CEO of ALPR company Flock, told an audience of police chiefs at a private police conference Sunday that anti-Flock protests around the country are not real" 🤔 "Langley suggested during the session with Rausch that eventually the opposition to Flock will die down" 🤔 0 / 2 ❌

One interesting thing to look for on this map are the "Wing" devices. Wing Gateway is Flock's option to integrate third-party video cameras into their network to run their AI surveillance on! ⚠️ "AI-Powered Alerts: Automatically identify & receive alerts on suspicious activities" archive.is/KK0HB

Via a records request, a stay-at-home mom got back 119 photos associated with her license plate as captured by Flock cameras. 11 of the cars were not even hers! 🤯 Not the same make, not the same model, or even the same color. But the system captured her license plate as those cars!! NoALPRs.com 🚫

"They don't need you to like these cameras. They don't need you to trust them. They just need you to stop noticing them. They need you to believe they're another inevitable piece of infrastructure that you have no power to question. They want you to give up." #surveillance #alpr #flock #ring

Redmond City Council voted to terminate the Flock contract on July 21 & were told it would take 70-90 days for removal. It was a slow trickle of maybe 2-3 cameras per week once it started. In the end, the last of them were removed on October 14, after almost a year of being suspended.

Over 290 entries in the @ij.org ALPR abuses database (19 added this October), but it's likely just the tip of the iceberg! "romantic stalking, wrongful stops & detentions, non-law enforcement use, & other types of misconduct." "Guardrails" do not keep us safe from mass surveillance! NoALPRs.com 🚫

Axon Fusus & Real Time Crime Centers! "Across the country, PDs are building their surveillance apparatus & adopting an RTCC like Fusus. These ‘spy centers‘ are an infrastructure that invite the police to acquire more & more technology." 🗓️ Mon Oct 26th 8pm ET / 5pm PT 👉 maglit.me/degipngify-unray

"This surveillance bulletin to cops is the latest evidence that police around the country have been told to be on edge during public meetings where people are participating in democracy and utilizing their First Amendment rights about unpopular things the government is doing." #deflock

Mass surveillance ALPR cameras being replaced with... mass surveillance ALPR cameras! 😩 "In recent weeks, Axon Outpost cameras have been installed near existing Flock Safety units on the Binghamton University main campus in Vestal." NoALPRs.com 🚫

New: We found cops who kept using Flock to spy on women after they left the force. One used it for five years after retirement, tracking his wife during a custody battle. Another ran searches while he was suspended (and later fired) after killing a 15-year-old boy. Free to read: wapo.st/3UEwWU7

"This surveillance bulletin to cops is the latest evidence that police around the country have been told to be on edge during public meetings where people are participating in democracy and utilizing their First Amendment rights about unpopular things the government is doing." #deflock

⚠️ At the public safety meeting tonight, Redmond PD are seeking the installation of a permanent $1.5M Axon Dedrone infrastructure spanning Redmond, Kirkland and Bellevue! Same tech deployed in Seattle for the World Cup. Uses radar, radio & optical sensors! 📄 redmond.legistar.com/LegislationD...

Once a surveillance infrastructure exists, new use cases will emerge! "the [RTCC] team can use the screens to flip between different cameras across the community, including 70 Flock cameras equipped with ALPR technology & 37 Flock Condor cameras, which are AI-integrated, pan-tilt-zoom cameras"

"AI-powered camera networks operated by Flock Safety, Axon, & other companies are making the real-world consequences of mass surveillance impossible to ignore. Now, a new bill in Congress would help rein in these systems." Get the Flock Out of Our Communities Act: www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

Direct access to a nationwide mass surveillance network is seemingly no more complicated than sharing a Netflix account! 😩 "a steady stream of misuse cases has left many communities unwilling to trust police with the extra power it provides. The backlash has been enormous." NoALPRs.com 🚫

Kept hearing from Flock prostesters that they didn't understand how cameras went up with their tax dollars and without their knowledge. I read dozens of contracts and found 55 times the company testified their product is unique (despite the other ALPR cameras on the market) to avoid bidding process.

"Predictive policing technology also allows police to launder or “tech-wash” racist policing strategies to appear as if they are based on objective data, when in reality already highly policed communities are oversampled in the data that determines which communities are targeted."

@Julietpotrykus says the “silent majority” isn't making itself known, while dismissing what the MAJORITY of speakers who have ACTUALLY been showing up to council mtgs have to say & calling our comments "reflexive" and "agenda-based topical feedback" relating to immigration. City Council Tue, 5:30pm.

"ALPRs are mass surveillance ... Cities should not buy them, & cities that already have them should shut them down. A warrant req. would not make mass surveillance acceptable, but it would require police to justify a search to a judge before accessing records of people’s movements." NoALPRs.com 🚫

Did you know we have a petition? Please sign and share before the current contract is set to expire on November 2! Live/work in Renton? Join us at City Council tomorrow, October 19 at 7:00 PM! Make your voice heard!

Interesting discussion with @equalityalec.bsky.social (author of "Copaganda") on the hidden history of police body cameras. 📖 thenewpress.org/books/copaga... "While body cams are presented as a technological fix to deeply rooted institutional problems, they actually have the opposite effect."

Have you checked out our website yet? It's going to take more of us speaking up to get these mass surveillance devices out of our community. 📃 Sign our petition, 📊 Fill out our survey, 📚 and find lots of educational info. www.deflockyakima.org

Savannah police officer shared her Flock login with her husband, an ICE officer. License plate reader data will continue to be used for immigration enforcement and other purposes unless we decide to stop mass surveillance. gizmodo.com/cop-fired-fo...

Pflugerville, TX thought they were sharing Flock data with 83 agencies.. 459 had access! 🤯 "Americans have put up with a lot of surveillance over the past 25 years. But silicon valley's ethos to 'move fast & break things' is threatening to break democratic accountability & that's striking a chord."

"Axon Fusus enables police to link security cameras, ALPRs, doorbell cameras, police dash cameras, drones, and body-worn cameras to a central hub that can use AI. The software’s distinction is its ability to integrate privately owned cameras from individuals, organizations, and businesses"

Axon Fusus & Real Time Crime Centers! "Across the country, PDs are building their surveillance apparatus & adopting an RTCC like Fusus. These ‘spy centers‘ are an infrastructure that invite the police to acquire more & more technology." 🗓️ Mon Oct 26th 8pm ET / 5pm PT 👉 maglit.me/degipngify-unray

Great segment on this ALPR search ruling from @404media.co! "It is often the case that unconstitutional, privacy-violating searches that are regularly done on everyday people doing nothing wrong are discovered in court cases in which serious crimes have occurred." 📄 www.404media.co/watch-footag...

"the lesson this [HIDTA] program provides is just how slippery the government can be and how hard it can be to limit the sharing is a reminder that the real solution to protecting against privacy invasions & abuses in a community is to get rid of ALPR and other mass surveillance programs altogether"

More people need to realize that many police technology CEOs are not people who have spent a lot of time thinking about public safety--they are serial start up founders who know that police will buy anything and that crime panic sells. Langley's first company was a fancy car subscription service.

Great segment on this ALPR search ruling from @404media.co! "It is often the case that unconstitutional, privacy-violating searches that are regularly done on everyday people doing nothing wrong are discovered in court cases in which serious crimes have occurred." 📄 www.404media.co/watch-footag...

@eff.org joins ACLU-WI for their second lawsuit against ALPR surveillance! "We all deserve to be free of warrantless mass surveillance. We all deserve to live in a country where surveillance vendors cannot help police upend our system of individualized suspicion." 📄 www.aclu-wi.org/press-releas...

"Records show some communities installed Flock license plate readers before elected officials approved them. We examine contract practices, procurement oversight and growing questions about surveillance." Full report: www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2026/10/12/f...

> Even when they reject such lawsuits, courts commonly acknowledge that the legal picture could change as the number and capabilities of ALPRs multiply. If so, it seems likely that Hill will eventually be joined by other judges who recognize the perils of "indiscriminate mass surveillance."

"Records show some communities installed Flock license plate readers before elected officials approved them. We examine contract practices, procurement oversight and growing questions about surveillance." Full report: www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2026/10/12/f...

Disappointing. However... "We believe this ruling is wrong on the law, and we will appeal. The ruling ignores the importance of landmark rulings from the U.S. Supreme Court regarding the invasiveness of aggregating collected data on an individual over time, including one issued just months ago."

"While local law enforcement often praise the technology, the increasing deployments of drones are worrying civil rights advocates about the balance of privacy versus security." "The public conversation hasn’t caught up to how much of a problem drones are at this point." - Beryl Lipton, @eff.org

It's worth noting that the real cost of surveillance infrastructure from companies like Flock and Axon is not just financial. It's much worse than simply leaching public funds in the name of "safety." It's the continued erosion of our privacy, rights and freedoms, which are priceless! NoALPRs.com 🚫

How much Flock costs and the multi-year deals, bundles & "free" trials they offer as incentives to open the door and keep it open! "Once you let police officers try a tool it becomes really hard to get the political will and motivation to take that tool away from them." - @mguariglia.bsky.social