What We Can Do

Report unknown cameras to deflock.org
- Seen a camera? See if it’s already been reported, and if not, submit it.

Contact city council members…
- Contact your city council member and voice your concern with these types of cameras in our communities (not sure which district you live in? click here). When you reach out, keep in mind:
  - Legal violations: Flock has shown multiple times to share automated license plate reader data with out-of-state or federal agencies, without an agencies knowledge, which explicitly violates California Senate Bill 34 (2015). Flock has done this in multiple California cities, including San Francisco, Mountain View, Santa Cruz, and Richmond.
    - California Civil Code § 1798.90.55(b) states: “A public agency shall not sell, share, or transfer ALPR information, except to another public agency, and only as otherwise permitted by law.”
    - Per California Civil Code § 1798.90.5(f), California law defines ‘public agency’ as California state and local agencies only, not federal or out-of-state agencies. California Civil Code § 1798.90.5(f) states: “‘Public agency’ means the state, any city, county, or city and county, or any agency or political subdivision of the state or a city, county, or city and county, including, but not limited to, a law enforcement agency.”
      - Mountain View, CA: Jan. 30, 2026, Mountain View learned federal agencies had been accessing their Flock data for months without the city’s knowledge or permission. Flock had enabled ‘nationwide search’ settings, allowing agencies across the country to search Mountain View’s license plate data. This includes the ATF (Kentucky & Tennessee), Langley Airforce Base (Virginia), and GSA Office of Inspector General. ‘Statewide search’ was enabled from August 2025-January 2026, a total of 17 months, without Mountain View Police Department’s knowledge or permission. Mountain View Police Chief Mike Canfield immediately suspended all Flock cameras and announced, ‘I personally no longer have confidence in this particular vendor,’ and ‘Community trust is more important than any individual tool.’ [Mountain View Voice] [Mountain View Voice follow-up]
      - Richmond, CA: January, 2026, Richmond Police Department discovered unauthorized ‘national search features’ were still active on their Flock system, despite Flock’s August 2025 promise to disable these settings across all California customers. Richmond shut down their entire Flock system pending an investigation as a response. This shows that Flock’s ‘fixes’ after the August 2025 CHP warning were incomplete, or ineffective. [EFF Investigation]
      - Santa Cruz, CA: December, 2025, An analysis of Santa Cruz’s Flock data found almost 4,000 searches containing immigration-related terms, such as ICE, HSI, CBP, oerformed by 32 different California law enforcement agencies. Searches related to federal immigration enforcement violate both California’s sanctuary state protections, and Senate Bill 34’s prohibition on federal sharing. [Santa Cruz Local]
      - San Francisco, CA: September, 2025, An EFF investigation found at least 19 searches related to ICE documented in San Francisco’s Flock data. Agencies from Georgia and Texas (anti-abortion states) has also accessed San Francisco residents’ location data. [EFF’s Investigation]
  - Lack of transparency: Flock refuses an outside security audit.
  - Security vulnerabilities: Senator Ron Wyden’s investigation of Flock found it doesn’t require multi-factor authentication, and at least 35 customer account passwords were stolen by hackers. Additionally, credentials were being sold on the dark web, to criminals, stalkers, and foreign adversaries.
    - A quote from Senator Wyden: “Flock has needlessly exposed Americans’ sensitive personal data captured by the company’s surveillance cameras to theft by hackers and foreign spies, and unauthorized access through multiple documented instances of unauthorized password sharing.” [Source, Nov. 2025]
  - False information: Automated systems such as Flock carry significant risks of false positives, in which innocent people are subjected to armed police responses based on system errors. This creates dangerous situations for law-abiding citizens who pose no threat. In Baltimore County in October 2025, an AI-powered gun detection system at Kenwood High School misidentified a students Doritos as a firearm, triggering an armed police response. The student was sitting outside eating when officers arrived with weapons drawn. ALPRs create false positive alerts that result in innocent individuals being held at gunpoint during high-risk traffic stops.
  - Immigrant Community Impact: Flock has already shown to be openly violating SB 34 (2015), and calls into question the California Values Act (SB 54), which ensures that no state and local resources are used to assist in federal immigration enforcement.

Attend local City Council meetings and share your thoughts on Flock!

Tell your friends, family, and coworkers about Flock and the way they invade our privacy and collect our data. The more it’s talked about, the more it’s known, and the better the chance will be to have them removed.