As a growing number of municipalities cancel contracts due to concerns over data security, the Berkeley City Council delayed a vote early Wednesday morning on a $2 million agreement with surveillance ...

BRENTWOOD — While others in the Bay Area may have ended or are reviewing contracts with Flock Safety cameras over privacy concerns, three East Contra Costa County cities said they will continue using ...

A top provider of AI-powered license plate readers, Flock, made its first political contributions in California this month. But the checks are already being rebuffed. The controversial company gave ...

A wave of anti-surveillance vigilantism is gripping American activists. According to a February 2026 report by Blood in the Machine, a journalism project by author Brian Merchant, concerned citizens ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Flock Safety has not only marketed its plate readers to law enforcement as a vital crime-fighting tool, but ...

EVERETT, Wash. — The City of Everett has shut down its entire network of Flock license plate reader cameras after a Snohomish County judge ruled the footage those cameras collect qualifies as a public ...

From New York to Alabama to Arizona, everyday people are mounting a local resistance to the company’s mass surveillance. And sometimes, they take matters into their own hands. Len Phillips had just ...

San Jose police Chief Paul Joseph is recommending a series of changes to how Flock cameras are used in the city. The proposal being considered by the city council come after community groups recently ...

Brian Merchant, writing for Blood in the Machine, reports that people across the United States are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras, amid rising public anger that the license ...

Flock cameras have become such attractive targets for destruction that some police have become protective of information about where they’re mounted. A local news story Friday in Louisville, Kentucky ...

The Aspen Police Department is working to install two license plate-reading cameras made by the Georgia-based Flock Safety, the same surveillance company whose cameras have stirred public controversy ...

Amazon’s Ring Cuts Ties With Flock Safety Amid Consumer Surveillance Backlash Your email has been sent A 30-second Super Bowl ad was supposed to celebrate community. Instead, it reignited a national ...