Tell Flagstaff City Council: protect our rights and privacy!

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The surveillance company Flock Safety is blanketing American cities with dangerously powerful and unregulated automatic license plate recognition (ALPR) cameras – including Flagstaff. While license plate readers have been around for some time, Flock is the first to create a nationwide mass-surveillance system out of its customers’ cameras. Local police departments are routinely sharing Flock ALPR data with federal officials, giving the federal government the power to track the movements of virtually any person without oversight or limitation.

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Flagstaff City Council: Mayor Becky Daggett, Vice Mayor Miranda Sweet, Councilmember Austin Aslan, Councilmember Khara House, Councilmember Lori Matthews, Councilmember Anthony Garcia, and Councilmember David Spence.

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Flock Cameras pose a blatant violation of our rights and privacy. The invasive surveillance of our communities must stop now. Contact Flagstaff City Council and demand they remove Flock Cameras from our community!

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Flock is building a dangerous nationwide mass-surveillance infrastructure, and Flagstaff has no business being part of it. Please protect the rights of people in our community. Get Flock cameras off our city streets and out of our private lives!

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Automatic license plate readers (ALPRs), under ordinary circumstances, present a significant threat to privacy, as long-term vehicular location data can reveal very private details about a person’s life, including what meetings a person attends, what doctors' offices they visit, where they worship, and even where they sleep at night. Unlike red-light cameras or speed cameras that are triggered by specific violations, ALPRs photograph every vehicle that drives by and can use artificial intelligence to create a profile with identifying information that then gets stored in a massive database.

Flock’s nationwide ALPR data sharing model has made local ALPR data available to virtually any law enforcement entity who wishes to access it. Because Flock’s default contract gives them an unlimited “worldwide” license to use the ALPR data – and because Flock does not have adequate safeguards in place to prevent inappropriate use or sharing of ALPR data – law enforcement from virtually any locality, state, federal agency, or foreign government can access Flock ALPR data. In addition to government uses, Flock has contracts with several private entities including HOAs, Lowes, Simon Property Group, Fed Ex, Kaiser Permanente, and even individual homeowners.

Taking advantage of this growing nationwide network, Flock’s ALPR system is now being used to target members of vulnerable groups. Law enforcement in Texas recently used Flock’s ALPR system to investigate a woman seeking abortion care in Illinois. In California, Flock’s nationwide data sharing system was unlawfully used to go after undocumented persons in that state. And a recent report revealed ICE has access to Flock’s nationwide ALPR data through local police departments despite not having a formal agreement.

Flagstaff City Council must take action to stop this dangerous mass surveillance effort from harming our communities. Remove Flock cameras from our city streets.

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