Bring this fight to your
hometown.

Find out what's in your town.

Before you do anything else, find out whether your city has Flock cameras at all - and if so, where.

Start with the community map. DeFlock.me is a crowdsourced map of ALPR cameras nationwide. Search your town and surrounding area. If cameras are mapped there, the volunteer who logged them probably also noted the pole locations.

Then look in person. Flock Falcon cameras are pole-mounted on the right-of-way (often at intersections) and tend to be solar-powered with a stubby black housing, an antenna, and a small camera at one end. The newer Condor cameras are PTZ (pan-tilt-zoom) and look more like a dome camera. If you see one, log it on DeFlock.me yourself.

Check your city's public meeting archive. Most cities post their council agendas, packets, and minutes online. Search for "Flock," "ALPR," "license plate reader," "automated license plate," "surveillance camera," or "Falcon" in the search bar of your city's public records portal. Even better, find the meeting date your council adopted the contract - the staff report attached to that agenda item is usually a goldmine.

File three records requests. We wrote them for you.

This is the part that broke OKC open. Every state has an open records / FOIA / sunshine law. Use yours.

We've published a starter pack with the exact three requests that produced our biggest finding - the internal memo confirming no oversight framework exists. The pack is generalized for any state: just substitute your state's open records statute citation and replace the bracketed sections with your town and police department.

• Request 1: Policies, SOPs, training materials, access controls, audit procedures, and transparency reporting.
• Request 2: Data retention, deletion verification, and cross-agency sharing configuration.
• Request 3: Contracts, invoices, and council authorization documents.

Send each request to BOTH your local police department AND your city records office. Departments deflect to the city; the city often produces what the department won't. The two-sided pattern is what produced our most important finding.

Don't know your state's open records statute name? The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press maintains a free state-by-state Open Government Guide with the exact citations, deadlines, and appeal procedures for every state.

Read the contract. Look for these five things.

Flock's master agreement is roughly the same nationwide. Once you get a copy, here's what to look for.

Permitted Purpose. Flock's contract typically authorizes use for "crime awareness, prevention, and prosecution." Many states have a narrower statute on the books - check whether your state's ALPR law limits use to specific purposes (insurance enforcement, warrant-backed investigations, etc.). The contract often authorizes use beyond what your state law allows.

Data ownership and license. In February 2026, Flock quietly modified their master terms to add a "perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free" data license that survives contract termination. If your contract was signed before then but auto-renewal terms reference the latest master agreement, you may be agreeing to those terms without realizing it. Compare your contract's data ownership language against Flock's current public terms.

Modification rights. Flock's standard contract grants Flock unilateral authority to activate new features on existing hardware. Cameras you contracted for may now have audio detection, AI search, or person-tracking capabilities your council never voted on.

Cross-agency sharing. The "National Lookup" feature is often enabled by default. This means law enforcement agencies anywhere in the country can query your city's data - and many cities have discovered after the fact that federal agencies were accessing local data for months without local police knowledge (see The Case, Section 05 for Mountain View's case).

Renewal terms. Most contracts run on a one-year term with multiple one-year renewal options. The annual decision to renew goes through council. That is your moment.

Find your allies. They're closer than you think.

Surveillance is one of the rare issues that unites the ACLU and the Institute for Justice on the same side of the same lawsuits. Your local coalition will likely be broader than you expect.

Civil liberties organizations: Your state ACLU affiliate. They have model policy language, lawyers, and existing relationships with state legislators.

Property rights and libertarian groups: The Institute for Justice has active federal Fourth Amendment litigation against ALPR cities. State-level libertarian organizations are often natural allies. Frame this as "big government wearing a corporate badge" and watch the coalition expand.

Religious and community organizations: Local clergy who care about congregant safety, especially in immigrant or politically active congregations. Faith communities often have political access most advocacy groups don't.

Second Amendment advocates: Documented use of ALPR data to track attendees of gun shows and Second Amendment rallies makes this a natural fit for 2A organizations and right-leaning civil-libertarian outlets.

Business owners: Many private businesses host Flock cameras in their parking lots without realizing they're feeding a nationwide law-enforcement database. Owners who care about their customers' privacy are natural allies.

Reporters: Local NPR affiliates, weekly papers, and independent investigative outlets cover this story. National outlets like 404 Media, EFF, and Wired have already published the foundational reporting - your local story can connect to that work.

Engage your city council before the renewal vote.

Most cities renew their Flock contract annually. The renewal vote is your single highest-leverage moment. Show up. Speak. Get on the record.

We've published two resident-facing documents that work for any city - the only thing you need to swap is your town name and council member's name:

• Council Email Template: A fill-in-the-blank letter you can send your council representative opposing the Flock contract renewal.
• Show-Up Sheet: A one-page guide covering when council meets, how to sign up to speak, what to bring, and seven modular 3-minute talking-point blocks.

Both documents reference the OKCPD memo and the OKC case as examples. You can keep those references (they're useful evidence that the same vendor produced the same gap nationwide) or substitute your own city's findings once you have them.

Send your findings back to the network.

Whatever you get - even a deflection - is useful. Send it our way so we can connect residents working on this across the country and build the broader public record.

Email OKCFlockWatch@gmail.com with whatever your town's police department or city sent back. Even a non-response is a finding. Include:

• Your city and state
• Which agencies you sent the requests to, and when
• What they sent back (PDFs welcome)
• What you think the response reveals, or what's missing from it
• Whether you're interested in connecting with other residents from your area, or whether you'd like a hand spinning up a site for your town

The DeflockYourCity Toolkit (linked in the resources below) is also actively collecting community-contributed records. If you'd rather contribute directly to the national repository, that's a great path too.