How to kick Flock out of your town

In a year rife with backlash to big tech, data centers, and AI, one company still manages to stand out: Flock Safety. Over the past decade, Flock has been building out a massive network of surveillance cameras across the nation. The images those cameras record are uploaded to a central database, and can be accessed by law enforcement and federal authorities.
Abuse of the system has been rampant. Police have used Flock’s Automatic License Plate Readers (ALPRs) to stalk exes (404media.co/cops-search-thousands-of-flock-cam…) and to track women seeking abortions (eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/she-got-abortion-so-…) across state lines. ICE has accessed (immpolicytracking.org/policies/reported-ice-ac…) Flock data to assist in crackdown on immigrants. Innocent people have been wrongfully imprisoned (futurism.com/future-society/police-flock-alpr-…) after being flagged by the system.
With the anti-Flock movement growing, and more people looking into how to get Flock out of their communities, I sat down with Ed, an organizer with DeFlock, to explain, step by step, how you can start a movement to get the surveillance tech out of your town, too.
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Articles Mentioned in this Episode
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immpolicytracking.org/policies/reported-ice-ac…
cybernews.com/privacy/de-flock-america-hallowe…
cnet.com/home/security/flocks-ai-cameras-may-h…
404media.co/flock-taught-cops-how-to-surveil-n…
gadgetreview.com/flock-safety-employees-watche…
eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/she-got-abortion-so-…
deflocktheusa.com/cancellations

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