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Get the FLOCK out
of OKC.

OKC residents are demanding three things from City Council: don't renew the Flock contract. Remove the cameras. Don't sign with another ALPR vendor. The renewal vote has been repeatedly deferred as the city works through the ongoing datacenter agenda. Residents already stood up on June 16 (8 of 10 commenters against Flock, with nothing on the agenda) and on July 7 (five more, same pattern). The coalition shows up at every council meeting until the vote lands. The contract says 90 cameras. The community map shows 299. Surveillance does not make our city safer - and we're done being asked to trust private companies that have been caught lying about what they collect.

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90 Cameras per contract
299 Reported on the map
??? Verified by the city
The Problem

What is Flock doing in Oklahoma City?

It's not just license plate readers anymore. It's a surveillance platform now under federal constitutional challenge, run by a vendor with a documented pattern of lying to city councils. Six concrete reasons it should concern every OKC resident.

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Zero Oversight - By Their Own Admission

OKCPD confirmed in writing: no access controls, no use policies, no audit procedures, no discipline standards, and no transparency reporting. Their only published ALPR policy (Manual §5-118) covers vehicle-mounted readers - not Flock's static cameras. Even Flock's own CEO says every city should have published use policies and regular audits. OKC has neither.

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Breaks Oklahoma Law and OKCPD's Own Rules

Oklahoma statute 47 O.S. §7-606.1 limits ALPR use to insurance enforcement. OKCPD uses Flock far beyond that. Their own Operations Manual states ALPR data "will not be shared as part of a law enforcement information database" - but Flock's entire business model is exactly that: 5,000+ agencies and 100,000+ cameras sharing data nationwide.

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Your Data Leaves OKC - and It's Not Secure

Every photo from every camera leaves city limits and lands on Flock's private servers, beyond the reach of any public records request. The devices have numerous confirmed security vulnerabilities and can be compromised in 30 seconds. Independent researchers found at least 60 cameras streaming live to the open internet - including one pointed at a children's playground. No password. No encryption. Anyone with a search engine could watch.

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It's Not Just Plates Anymore

Flock's newer Condor cameras use AI-powered pan, tilt, and zoom to automatically follow people - not vehicles. The contract says 90 city cameras, but the community map shows 299 in the OKC metro. Private businesses, parking lots, and HOAs feed data into the same Flock network. In Dunwoody, GA, Flock employees were caught accessing cameras inside a gym, including the pool, fitness studio, and preschool daycare areas.

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Already Being Abused

Officers have been charged with crimes for using Flock to stalk partners and exes. Tulsa PD logged protest-related searches. Texas deputies used it for an abortion investigation. Flock's own VP of Business Development searched a city's database 63 times without being a police officer. In San Francisco, outside agencies searched local data 1.6 million times without authorization. And when researchers reported all of this, Flock's CEO sent an email to police departments calling them "activists who want to defund the police."

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The Contract Is Rigged

Flock can activate new surveillance features - audio detection, video, AI capabilities - on existing cameras without council approval or public notice. In February 2026, they quietly rewrote their contract terms: deleting data ownership protections and adding a "perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide" data license that survives termination. They block web archiving so cities can't track changes.

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No Proof It Works

No effectiveness report has ever been published for OKC's system. A peer-reviewed evaluation of a major ALPR expansion in Atlantic City found no statistically significant reduction in violent crime. In San Jose, only 0.25% of 360 million captured images matched any law enforcement hotlist. The rest was just data on ordinary people going about their lives.

$8.4B
Follow the money

OKC pays Flock $270,000 a year. Flock is valued at $8.4 billion. Camera leasing fees can't explain the gap - which means cities aren't the real customers. We are.

Who is actually paying for Flock? →
The Bait-and-Switch

OKC contracted for a license plate reader.
OKC is operating a surveillance platform.

The hardware never changed. Everything else did. Every one of the features below is running on the same 90 poles council voted on in 2023 - activated by Flock, without notice, without a new vote.

2023 What council voted on

"Crime awareness, prevention, and prosecution."

- Master Agreement C241032, Permitted Purpose clause

  • Falcon fixed-position cameras
  • Read license plates, check hot lists
  • 90 cameras, one product line
  • No new features without a new vote
2026 What OKC is actually running

A national surveillance platform. None of these were on the 2023 ballot.

- Documented on Flock's own product pages and by independent researchers

  • Vehicle Fingerprint - search by color, damage, no plate needed
  • FreeForm AI - "vehicles near the abortion clinic" queries
  • Condor - AI cameras that follow people on foot
  • Raven - always-on audio detection
  • Aerodome - drone integration
  • Flock Nova - data fusion with third-party data
  • National Lookup - shared with 5,000+ agencies
  • Philippines-based AI classification of your neighbors' vehicles
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“There is no transparency reporting or internal usage reporting in our policies, SOPs, directives, training or guidance materials.”
- OKCPD Department Memorandum, March 10, 2026. Written on official letterhead in response to our records requests. Read it yourself.
From the Records

What six open records requests revealed

We filed three requests to OKCPD and three to the City of Oklahoma City. Every finding below is sourced from official responses.

01

OKCPD punted on all three requests

All three OKCPD requests came back with the same response: a link to the online Operations Manual. No Flock-specific documents, no contracts, no policies. The department that operates the system couldn't produce a single document governing its use.

Source: OCPD-2885, OCPD-2886, OCPD-2887-2026
02

The City produced the critical memo

The City's response to our re-filed request included OKCPD's own internal memorandum - the document that confirms in writing: no access controls, no prohibited-use policies, no audit procedures, no discipline standards, and no transparency reporting.

Source: ORR-1095-2026, Department Memorandum OCPD-2885-2026
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The only published policy doesn't apply

Operations Manual §5-118 describes vehicle-mounted ALPR units operated by officers during shifts. It says nothing about Flock's static, network-connected cameras. It explicitly prohibits data sharing - the exact thing Flock's platform is built to do.

Source: OKCPD Operations Manual 6th Edition, pp. 283-284
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The contract exceeds what Oklahoma law allows

Flock's contract authorizes use for general "crime awareness, prevention, and prosecution." Oklahoma statute 47 O.S. §7-606.1 limits ALPR use to insurance enforcement. The gap between what's authorized and what's happening has never been publicly addressed.

Source: Master Agreement C241032 vs. 47 O.S. §7-606.1
05

Training materials are being withheld

OKCPD admits training materials for Flock exist but withholds them as "law enforcement use only" - without citing any statutory exemption from the Oklahoma Open Records Act. If the training is above board, why can't the public see it?

Source: OCPD-2885-2026 Internal Memorandum, Item 2
But wait, there's more · Round 2 filed

Eleven more questions. Lots to dig up.

Round 1 was the receipts round. Round 2 is the audit round. All eleven follow-up records requests are now filed: OKCPD search logs, National Lookup participation, the paper trail behind OKCPD's June rewrite of Section 5-118, federal agency access to OKC's Flock data, effectiveness reporting, stolen-vehicle case linkage, right-of-way permits and MUTCD roadside-safety compliance for every Flock pole in the city, and more. The first, OCPD-9710-2026, has already been closed with no response. Whatever comes back gets posted on the Records page - findings, denials, silence, all of it.

Track Round 2 →

For the full national picture - business model, security failures, federal lawsuits, vendor conduct, and the broader coalition pushing back - read The Case →

Nearly 50 cities have already said no.

Guthrie, OK terminated their contract. Lynnwood, WA voted 7-0. Tompkins County, NY voted 12-1, calling Flock "untrustworthy." Oshkosh rescinded within 24 hours over Flock's lies. Cambridge, Austin, Mountain View, Staunton, Eugene, Denver, Flagstaff, Dane County - the list keeps growing. Amazon killed their Ring-Flock partnership. The Institute for Justice filed federal lawsuits in Norfolk and San Jose. If you believe in small government, this is small government - a private corporation operating a mass surveillance system the government couldn't build directly. Add your name to the petition.

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Tell City Council: 01 Do not renew the Flock contract. 02 Remove Flock cameras. 03 Do not use another ALPR vendor.
VOTE DELAYED · Every council meeting until it lands

Fill the council chamber.
Every meeting. Until it lands.

On May 27, 100+ OKC residents filled Mayflower Congregational Church. Three council members - Cooper (Ward 2), Hamon (Ward 6), and Pennington (Ward 7) - showed up with us. Five did not. Then 8 of 10 public commenters spoke against Flock on June 16, and five more residents did the same on July 7 - both times with Flock off the agenda. The renewal vote itself has been repeatedly deferred as the city works through the ongoing datacenter agenda. The coalition shows up at every council meeting until the vote lands. Be there. Speak up. Or send your name in via the petition.

"I want the maximalist position of ending the contract"
- Councilman James Cooper (Ward 2)
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