Bird Dog Anti-Surveillance

Links

Numbers may shift over time as links are added and removed.

Central Illinois

  1. 2026 September, "East Peoria mayor defends Flock cameras as local critic raises privacy concerns", WEEK 25
  2. 2026 September, "Creve Coeur police in 'state of chaos' as former chief investigated for misconduct", WVIK Quad Cities
  3. 2026 August, "Flock Safety wins contract renewal with Pekin for license plate reading cameras", WEEK 25
  4. 2026 June, "B-N residents voice concerns about Flock cameras in policing to the man who leads Bloomington's program", WGLT
  5. 2026 April, Muckrock 209419, muckrock.com FOIA files
    1. 2023 March, "If you see any images in your searches that contain bikes but do not populate with the filter option, please flag them as inaccurate so that our Machine Learning team can integrate them into their training models." -- support@flocksafety.com to jmcqueen@cityblm.org, Page 314 of Exchange Emails_PD-1203-2026_Redacted.pdf (Warning: 134 MiB slow download) from MuckRock 209419

Illinois state-wide

  1. 2026 September, "Naperville police officer used Flock technology for stalking", Chicago Tribune
  2. 2026 March, "Flock removes final two license plate cameras from Evanston after RoundTable inquiry", Evanston RoundTable
  3. 2025 August, "Oak Park terminates Flock license plate reader contract", Wednesday Journal of Oak Park and River Forest
  4. 2025 August, "Giannoulias’ Audit Finds License Plate Reader Company in Violation of State Law", Illinois Secretary of State
  5. 2025 March, A Texas Cop Searched License Plate Cameras Nationwide for a Woman Who Got an Abortion, 404 Media

National

  1. Flock stories from 404 Media
  2. 2026 September, How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program , 404 Media
    1. The Trump administration is using an anti-drug trafficking grant program from the 1980s to force cities around the country to funnel their ongoing collection of automated license plate reader data into large federal surveillance centers that fall under the White House’s jurisdiction, according to public records and court documents reviewed by 404 Media.
    2. the federal government is using the “High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area” (HIDTA) program to obtain data from local cops’ Flock, Axon, and other ALPR cameras and aggregate it on federal government servers, where it is then accessible to other federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies.
    3. as cities begin to place restrictions on how their Flock data can be used, it represents an end-around for federal law enforcement to access data that it might not normally be able to, and to do so without any obvious oversight body.
    4. for example, cities in Georgia are not allowed to operate ALPR systems on state rights of way without signing a “memorandum of understanding” (MOU) in which they promise to send their data to a HIDTA
  3. 2026 September, "Experts Testify on Flock AI Surveillance Network", C-SPAN
    1. 46:27 - Senator Hawley (R) and others discuss Flock tracking of people.
    2. 1:06:35 - Senator Padilla (D) asks how to "close the loopholes", Chad Marlow of ACLU says, "You ban them, sir. You ban them."
  4. 2026 September, Clip of Benn Jordan's testimony at the US Senate, YouTube.com
  5. 2026 September, "More than a dozen Wisconsin cities disable Flock cameras, cancel contracts", Wisconsin Public Radio
  6. 2025 November, "License Plate Surveillance Logs Reveal Racist Policing Against Romani People", Electronic Frontier Foundation

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