Automated license-plate readers · a citizens' campaign
Turn off the cameras.
“Flock” is a brand. The device is an automated license plate reader — an ALPR — and it photographs, time-stamps, and stores every car that passes, on a private company's servers. Nobody asked you.
We're the movement getting them switched off — one sticker, one city council, one contract at a time.
Flock is a brand. ALPR is the machine.
Flock Safety is one private ALPR vendor among several — not the police, not the government. It operates in 5,000+ communities across 49 states and runs more than 20 billion plate scans a month.
One private company
Flock Safety is a for-profit firm founded in 2017 — one vendor alongside Motorola/Vigilant, Rekor and others. The cameras aren't public infrastructure.
Your data, their servers
Even when your city or HOA “gets Flock,” the cameras are leased and every plate read is pulled onto Flock's own cloud, searchable by police nationwide.
It keeps a history
Each read is logged with location, date and time in a searchable database — a timeline of where your car has been. Kept 30 days by default, but that's just a setting.
Your plate — on every single pass, whether or not you've done anything.
Make, model, color — plus stickers, dents and roof racks.
Exact location, date and time of every scan.
Stored and searchable — checked against the FBI's NCIC and state watchlists.
This has already gone past “catching criminals.”
Your plate becomes a warrantless record of where you drive — to work, to a protest, to a clinic, to a place of worship. Here's where that's already led:
Immigration. Flock's network has been used by ICE to help carry out its removal operations.
Abortion. Texas officers searched Flock data to find a woman who had sought an abortion.
Switched on quietly. A college found its network-sharing enabled without its permission or knowledge.
Personal. A Kansas officer was arrested for using a Flock database to stalk his estranged wife.
Communities are fighting back and winning — and every claim here links to its source.
Small money. Loud message.
Every dollar goes to ink and organizing — stickers on the street and pressure on the people who signed the contract.
You chip in
A few dollars funds a run of die-cut stickers, shirts, and flyers.
We print & ship
Donations become gear — sent out with a how-to-organize card.
You make it loud
Put the mark up, show up to a council meeting, and ask your town to drop the contract.
Get the drop dates & council alerts
When a sticker run ships or a Flock contract comes up for a vote near you, we'll tell you. No spam, just the fights.