Town Hall - May 27th

No oversight. No accountability.
No answers.

OKCPD confirmed in writing: no access controls, no audit procedures, no use policies. The contract says 90 cameras. The community map shows 299. Flock has been caught installing cameras in cities without authorization. Who is searching the data? Where is it going? Nobody in this city can answer those questions - and nobody is required to.

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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?

Flock Safety cameras photograph every vehicle that passes, capturing license plates, vehicle details, and movement patterns. Here's why that matters.

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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 40,000+ 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 67 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 Berkeley analysis found ALPRs produce no statistically significant reduction in 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.

“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.

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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
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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
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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

30+ cities have already said no.

Guthrie, OK terminated their contract. Lynnwood, WA voted 7-0. Tompkins County, NY voted 12-1, calling Flock "untrustworthy." Cambridge, Austin, Mountain View, Eugene, Denver, Flagstaff - the list keeps growing. Amazon killed their Ring-Flock partnership. The Institute for Justice filed a federal lawsuit. The tide is turning. Oklahoma City can be next.

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Get the FLOCK Out: Town Hall - May 27th
May 27, 2026

Get the FLOCK Out:
Town Hall

A presentation from ACLU National and a panel discussion on Flock's nationwide data sharing model, what it means for Oklahoma, and what we can do about it.

Wednesday, May 27th @ 6:00 PM
Mayflower Congregational Church
Free and open to the public

Featuring panelists from: ACLU National · Dream Action OK · Oklahomans for Privacy · DeFlockOKC

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