Flock Safety

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After a long, intense meeting with more than an hour of heated public comment, the Asheville, North Carolina City Council voted 5-2 to terminate the city's contract with Flock Safety.

It's a move that comes during a statewide reckoning with the technology company, which has come under fire for perceived potential Fourth Amendment violations.

The resolution came after Asheville Mayor Esther Manheimer... called on the city council to end the area's flocked contract in a video statement posted on social media.

Prior to the vote, the city of Asheville was operating 11 flocked cameras.

The city manager will now review the flocked contract.

Flock Safety manufactures ALPRs, or Automatic License Plate Readers, which capture images of license plates at a singular point in time and enter them into a database where artificial intelligence catalogs vehicle characteristics, like a vehicle's make, Model and Color.

APD has had a contract with Flock since 2025, which was originally set to run through 2027.

I love this one.

This is from the Flock guy.

The Flock guy, he's pissed off.

You know what? Buy me an ass, you dumb bastard.

Listen to this one.

The CEO of Flock Camera says the American people need to just compromise with mass surveillance.

And I agree.

Because compromise is a two-way street.

The superintendent did tell us the school will be serving cold lunch today to make sure students can stay in class.

Flock cameras could be coming to an end in Minneapolis.

You see two Minneapolis City Council members are now calling on two law enforcement agencies to end their flock camera contracts.

This comes after an automated license plate reader was installed by University of Minnesota Police in the Cedar Riverside neighborhood.

In a statement, a U of M spokesperson says they only capture vehicle information, don't use facial recognition, and don't share data for immigration enforcement.

Well now, council members say they plan to ask University Police and Hennepin County Sheriff's Office to terminate their flock contracts.

I think it's important to acknowledge that this tool has been abused and it is not about safety, it's about surveillance and it's about having a tool that was used against our immigrant neighbors in this city, in this state, in general with this company called Flock.

I don't even want to equate the flock and these license plate readers under the flock as a tool for safety because they're not.

Yes, so many of your listeners probably know that on October 1st, the Torrey City Council will be voting on Local Law 3, which has been a big part of the conversation around flock the last multiple months.

This is a good proposal that will establish safeguards for flock cameras, reduce the data retention period, force audits of how flock is being used.

However, many of our members in No Kings Albany, we're also working with another group I'm part of, Troy Residents Against Flock Cameras.

We're saying, okay, Local Law 3 is good, but we still want the city's contract with Flock to be canceled permanently.

So we're going to have a rally the day before the October 1st vote on Wednesday, September 30th, outside Troy City Hall, building located at 400 River Street, Troy, New York.

We'll be meeting there at 5.30 to demand that our city leaders take down those cameras.

And that's the good news.

Freshman lawmaker from North Carolina, Representative Pat Harrigan, has spoken out against flock safety's vast network of surveillance devices and has proposed a way Congress can rebuke the heavily scrutinized tool.

A diverse bipartisan coalition of lawmakers, local officials, and citizens, this is, by the way, from the Daily Caller, alleged that artificial intelligence-powered automated license plate readers, which are Alpers, I guess is the acronym, Flock's flagship product, violates Americans' civil rights by tracking them without warrants.

Harrigan told the Daily Caller in an interview that he believes the tracking devices have created a surveillance state and his fellow lawmakers must treat them exactly like a Bush-era law the FBI used to spy on everyday Americans.

His term, his phrase of choice, get the flock out.

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Flock cameras makes the world a safer place.

The pause runs until the county's Safety and Security Committee takes it up on October 20th and does not affect the 84 flock cameras the FCPD already operates.

Chairman Jeff McKay called the technology a clear public safety benefit, crediting it with helping solve more than 1,600 cases.

But he has also sent Flock's chief executive a list of questions about who controls the county's data.

The board also gave final approval Tuesday to the Framework for Redeveloping Reston Town Center North, a 47-acre site the county shares with Inova.

The plan clears the way for about 1,000 new homes, plus retail, offices, a central park, and a recreation center.

General.

Flock cameras.

Oh,

there you go.

And there was just a missing or a girl that was hit by a car.

And the flock cameras probably could have found found that person.

This town of Peoria, city of Peoria, came out with a pretty emphatic statement from the police department saying Flock cameras helped us find a missing man who was in cognitive decline.

And that this technology helped track him down.

It was fascinating when I saw what flock cameras do.

And that's the good news.

Freshman lawmaker from North Carolina, Representative Pat Harrigan, has spoken out against flock safety's vast network of surveillance devices and has proposed a way Congress can rebuke the heavily scrutinized tool.

A diverse bipartisan coalition of lawmakers, local officials, and citizens, this is, by the way, from the Daily Caller, alleged that artificial intelligence-powered automated license plate readers, which are Alpers, I guess is the acronym, Flock's flagship product, violates Americans' civil rights by tracking them without warrants.

Harrigan told the Daily Caller in an interview that he believes the tracking devices have created a surveillance state and his fellow lawmakers must treat them exactly like a Bush-era law the FBI used to spy on everyday Americans.

His term, his phrase of choice, get the flock out.