San Diego TRUST Coalition

Yesterday, the San Diego City Council Budget Committee voted unanimously to move forward on dropping Flock and modifying City ordinance to ban ALPR! We thank Foster, Elo-Rivera, Lee, and Moreno for their votes. We need ONE MORE VOTE to overcome the Mayor's promised veto! Phone numbers in 🧵

Call, visit, act up! Reach out to SD Councilmembers who haven't rejected Flock yet. Tell them why you need Flock dropped. Ask their position. Let them know you’ll remember. D1 LaCava (619) 236-6611 D2 Campbell (619) 236-6622 D5 von Wilpert (619) 236-6655 D7 Campillo (619) 236-6677

Big news! City Council's Budget Committee is taking the first steps to put Flock on the chopping block! Wednesday, October 21st at 9am at San Diego City Hall sandiego.hylandcloud.com/211agendaonl...

Councilmember Stephen Whitburn (@cmwhitburnd3.bsky.social) has listened, reconsidered, and taken a stand against Flock. Thank you from the TRUST Coalition.

We are grateful to Councilmember @cmwhitburnd3.bsky.social for standing up for San Diegans against Flock. We urge his colleagues on the City Council to join him in opposing the spread of harmful mass surveillance in San Diego. (1/3)

This struggle is about who gets to decide how we live public life in San Diego. Will our communities decide? Or will tech companies, as they pursue maximum shareholder value? (2/3)

Most San Diegans share a simple belief: in a free society, people should be able to go about their lives without the government tracking our movements. (3/3)

Councilmember Henry Foster *stood up* and *spoke out* against Flock. In Dec 2025, he said no to Flock. He followed through in June by voting to defund Flock and move $2 million towards essential services. Henry Foster shows us how a leader speaks out and acts up to create safety for everyone.

August 16-22 is the National Week of Action Against ALPRs. Join us and fight back. Sunday, canvass City Heights. Wednesday, tell SD City Council why they should shut down ALPR. Friday, hear from Austin and LA organizers at Safety in Unity 2026. Details in thread below... 🧵

bit.lyTell San Diego City Council & Mayor Todd Gloria: No ALPRs in San Diego!Take action with ACLU!

Wednesday, August 19 at 2pm: Show up at City Council! Give public testimony at the Public Safety Committee meeting. Tell San Diego City Council directly why you think ALPR needs to go. Sign the petition now to get more info from ACLU: bit.ly/NoALPRinSanDiego

Friday, August 21, 5:30-8:30pm Safety in Unity 2026: Flock Out of Everywhere 📍 PANA Event Hall, 5555 University Ave Join us for food and a panel conversation with organizers from Austin, LA, and other cities who are advancing the fight to end ALPR. RSVP mobilize.us/s/8rKpoh

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City Heights Neighborhood Canvassing Sunday, August 16, 11am-2pm Cafeina Cafe, 4011 46th St Walk City Heights with us! Share Know Your Rights info and let the community know where ALPR/Flock cameras are spying on our community. All materials provided. Wear comfy shoes!

timesofsandiego.comA Flock license plate reader linked a San Diego man to a violent crime. He was five miles away.A San Diego man spent one month in jail for a crime he didn't commit, after San Diego Police misinterpreted a hit from a license plate reader.

7 June

SDPD jailed the wrong person for several weeks based on Flock ALPR. Flock has led to wrongful accusation elsewhere, and now it happened here. Tell City Council and @MayorToddGloria not a cent more for for Flock! timesofsandiego.com/crime/2026/0... #surveillance #sandiego

4 May

Join community on Monday May 4th (today!) at the City of San Diego’s Evening Budget Hearing to tell the City what you want funded instead of Flock smart streetlights. With arts and children's services chopped, there's so much more to want than surveillance 6pm at 202 C Street, SD City Hall, 12th fl

What is Flock Nova, the service SDPD quietly adopted last December according to Axios? 404 media reports that Flock Nova is a "massive people look up tool" that uses open source intelligence and agency data to find links between people. www.404media.co/license-plat... #sandiego

In materials reviewed by 404, a Flock employee stated "You're going to be able to access data and jump from LPR to person and understand what that context is, link to other people that are related to that person by marriage or through gang affiliation, et cetera..."

Beryl Lipton of @eff explains "for police, the definition of what is considered 'open source' has really expanded to include information to which no one should have ever had access. Our health data, our financial records, or any of our other digital data is hacked and ends up on the internet."

Last Dec, SDPD quietly signed a contract for Flock Nova without going through the Privacy Advisory Board or public oversight process. Nova, like Palantir, links and integrates in house and "open source intelligence." www.axios.com/local/san-di... #alpr #flock #surveillance

Flock Nova is a "platform [that] integrates police departments' investigative data." More startlingly, it "gives SDPD access to 'open source intelligence' [data scraped and bought online] and data from other law enforcement agencies" according to the SDPD Flock contract.

axios.comScoop: San Diego police quietly signed new Flock tech dealPolice say the software was exempt from an oversight process for surveillance tech.

Show up at PAB today (in person, online) and tell them if they should approve the Flock policy. Find the agenda and zoom link here: www.sandiego.gov/sites/defaul...

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Lilly Irani

@gleemie.bsky.social

29 Apr

While City Council was filled with thousands of people asking for the Flock contract to be dropped, SDPD signed a contract (same month!) with Flock for Nova, the Palantir-like data fusion software without bringing it to the public. www.axios.com/local/san-di...

28 Apr

Show up to San Diego City Council Thursday, April 30 at 5:30pm @ San Diego City Hall (12th floor). The Privacy Advisory Board votes ONCE A YEAR on Flock ALPR, Smart Streetlights & more. Tell the Board: NO RUBBER STAMPS. PAB needs to hear from the community. #alpr #flock

28 Apr

The PAB was created to protect our privacy. But police have been heavily lobbying them to take a weak, passive approach to Flock license plate readers and other concerning surveillance tech. 💛 Make it personal 🔨 Tell how surveillance affects you 🛑 Demand accountability

404media.coFlock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked OurselvesFlock left at least 60 of its people-tracking Condor PTZ cameras live streaming and exposed to the open internet.

27 Dec 2025

Flock left 60 Condor AI-people tracking cameras open to the internet. @404mediaco reports cameras can zoom in close enough to read your cell phone screen. San Diego has not said it has these cameras, but it shows (again) Flock as sloppy and creepy. www.404media.co/flock-expose...

12 Dec 2025

Former ICE and CBP leaders who have now left the agency told the FT that previous safeguards are gone, with ICE pursuing aggressive quotas by using data from Social Security, the IRS, and commercial surveillance and license plate reader companies. ig.ft.com/us-ice-surve...

10 Dec 2025

We are inspired, furious, and we will not stop. Read our statement on yesterday's San Diego City Council vote on ALPR.

What the Flock indeed! Union Tribune drops this gem: An SDPD captain helped secure a multimillion dollar surveillance deal. Now he works for the contractor. www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/12/09/a...

SD City Council votes on Flock TODAY at 2pm downtown. Today is the day to hold our representatives accountable. Come to City Council. If you can’t, call in. Action toolkit: trst.fyi/stop-flock-e Want a reminder or tips? Dm us

youtube.comWe Hacked Flock Safety Cameras in under 30 Seconds. 🫥YouTube video by Benn Jordan

"We hacked Flock Safety cameras in under 30 seconds" www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB0g...

"Get Flock off our block" is also excellent. Credit to gee_emcee on IG

Phrase of the year: "get the flock out of my city!"

For 2 weeks this year, unauthorized outside agencies searched SD's Flock license plate data. Flock messed up the settings. SDPD first hid the breach, then admitted it months later but still redacts the reasons for the 12,914 unauthorized searches. Council vote Tue! Act now: trst.fyi/stop-flock-e

SD City Council votes on Flock tomorrow! 🗯️ Why do you want Flock stopped? Leave your story in the replies. Tomorrow, come to City Council downtown at 2pm. If you can’t, call in. Info to show up or call in here: trst.fyi/stop-flock-e Want a reminder or tips? Dm us

youtu.beUnionorBust #53-Lilly Irani, FLOCK cameras are bad for workers!On this episode, we interviewed Lilly Irani, an Associate Professor at UCSD and a member of the SD Trust Coalition that is fighting surveillance in San Diego. For more information, visit…

Union or Bust talks about Flock, and why the right to privacy still matters no matter what Silicon Valley or the police try to tell us. youtu.be/yyNIR4XIork?...

Leaders and community spoke truth at our press conference this week. "The SD police officer that led this initiative, that led bringing this technology to the city of SD, is now an employee of Flock. There is something extremely wrong with how this was done." Councilmember Henry Foster

"Ending the Flock contract is more than a policy choice. It is a declaration that San Diego values privacy, dignity and community trust." Patricia Mondragon @pmondragon.bsky.social, Alliance San Diego

trst.fyiTRUST Talking Points and Guide for 2025 December Shut down Flock!Shut down Flock! San Diego, Fall 2025 SD City Council vote, Dec 9 at 2pm Talking Points and Ways to Push Back (en español) Contacts if you have questions: Lilly Irani: lilly.irani@gmail.com Seth…

Remove Flock. Send your public comment now and show up in City Council Tuesday at 2pm. trst.fyi/stop-flock-e

“Stop placing wealth and profit over the privacy of our lives...of friends and our families and our members. End the use of ALPRs, end the relationship with this company, end the relationship w/these oppressive businesses...Get the Flock Out” Chris Wilson, United Domestic Workers

"End the Flock contract now. We must use the millions of dollars used in the installation and implementation of this dangerous technology to fund proven solutions to public safety like affordable housing access to medical care, food security, child care" Branden Sigua @sdicaclu.bsky.social

"Flock's pattern of behavior and the pattern of abuse of its technology makes it impossible for me to trust them or for me to tell San Diegans they should trust Flock with information about their every move." Councilmember Sean Elo-Rivera @seanelorivera.bsky.social

"Nobody should be OK w/the gestapo police state that is being formed right now in this country. [Flock] is about forming a mass surveillance network so that the hostile federal government can take over everything, and we are paying the price for it" Brigette Browning @sdiclaborcouncil.bsky.social

"We feel betrayed b/c the police are supposed to provide safety for our community, but by using this tech they are only causing more pain and suffering to our people, not only for the migrant families kidnapped by ICE terrorists, but to the entire community" Yolanda Menezes, ACCE

docs.google.com2025 Flock Hall of Shame

5 Dec 2025

Are people wondering why Flock is so terrible and out of control as a company? Here's a one pager you can share around too: docs.google.com/document/d/e...

San Diego TRUST Coalition@sandiegotrust.bsky.social

Why shut down Flock? A thread 🧵⬇️ Message your Council member and show up at City Council next Tuesday, Dec 9! Flock prioritizes getting investors rich by building creepy AI and people profiling tools using our tax dollars. www.aclu.org/news/nationa...

SD City Council votes on Flock next Tues, Dec 9 at 2pm! Mark your calendars to show up or call in. Tell City Council to shut down Flock. Pull the plug on out-of-control location data. Now: Call or message your Council rep. Our mailer makes it quick: trst.fyi/stop-flock-e

youtube.comFlock camera error leads police to detain wrong manA Redmond father was handcuffed in his driveway after a Flock license plate camera linked his car to his son’s felony warrant. He says the system flawed.

Flock does not reduce crime, despite the dramatic one-off-story. Flock has failed to provide independent studies that verifies their research on ALPR’s effectiveness. Yet Flock scans everybody. Expected glitches can lead to dangerous false detentions www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlHL...

Flock turbocharges unjust detentions. Our City should invest in safety through education, public libraries, community centers, hunger relief, affordable housing, parks, community gardens, and so much more. Message your Council member and show up Tuesday! trst.fyi/action

There have been multiple cases where Flock has been used to stalk members of the community, including the ex-girlfriend of a Kansas Police Chief in 2024. www.kansas.com/news/politic...

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Police in Texas used Flock ALPR to get search for people seeking abortions in 2025. Flock lied about this to the public for months. www.404media.co/police-said-...