GET THE FLOCK OUT! Fight Creepy ALPR Cameras

Automatic license plate reader (ALPR) companies like Flock Safety are
quietly trying to build a nationwide mass surveillance system. If there
are Flock cameras in your city, they are tracking, logging, and sharing
your movements without a warrant. But we're not powerless. More and more
communities are rejecting these creepy cameras — and yours can be one of
them! 

Flock's ALPR cameras aren't like your normal traffic cameras. This
surveillance technology records and tracks every car that comes into
view, and then an AI algorithm catalogs the make, model, color, license
plate number, bumper stickers, and even scratches. This personal
information is then uploaded into a nationwide database that any law
enforcement agency with a Flock contract can search — with few
regulations or oversight on how they use what they find. 

What the Flock?

Flock provides one of the most widely used ALPR systems, but they aren't
the only company trying to make a buck by spying on us. Axon, Vigilant
Solutions (a subsidiary of Motorola Solutions), Genetec, PlateSmart,
Innova Systems, Rekor, ELSAG, Perceptics, and Jenoptik are a few of the
other leading companies selling ALPRs to police, private companies, and
others. 

It doesn't matter which company has its creepy cameras in your
oversight, and regulation into how they collect, store, and use our
data, and how to hold public and private actors accountable if they
abuse it. 

Just think about how much someone could learn about your life if cameras
constantly tracked where you drove. They could find out which doctors
you visit, what house of faith you worship at, who you visit or drive
around with — even which political meetings and protests you attend. 

And we've already seen how this mass surveillance tool can be weaponized
and abused by law enforcement. ICE and CBP have repeatedly used Flock to
go after immigrants without warrants. Kansas police used them to pursue
a man who wrote a critical op-ed about the department, while a Colorado
police officer wrongfully accused a woman of theft based on a Flock hit
and then refused to look at evidence proving her innocence. A mother and
her children were held at gunpoint because ALPR cameras wrongly flagged
their car as stolen. 

Tell Flock Safety to Get the Flock Out!
This unprecedented spying is terrifying, but there's good news, too.
Communities across the country are fighting back against these creepy
cameras and winning. 

Cities and police departments are canceling their contracts with Flock
in response to public pressure. ACLU affiliates are supporting — and
passing! — legislation in the states to regulate how ALPR cameras are
used. But we need your help. 

Read our local advocacy toolkit and join the movement to tell Flock and

https://www.aclu.org/campaigns-initiatives/get-the-flock-out