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Every voice matters. Here are concrete ways you can help bring accountability to surveillance in Oklahoma City.

Tell City Council: NO ALPRs in OKC - Oklahomans for Privacy
Coalition Position

Get the FLOCK out of OKC.

Surveillance does not make Oklahoma City safer. It is mass data collection on every resident who drives a car, operated by an unaccountable private vendor. We are not asking for better Flock policies. We are asking for Flock and any replacement vendor to be removed entirely.

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May 27 · What Happened

100+ showed up. The vote keeps slipping.

Standing room only at Mayflower Congregational Church. Three council members attended and engaged: Cooper (Ward 2), Hamon (Ward 6), Pennington (Ward 7). Cooper publicly called for full contract termination. Five council members did not attend. After repeated deferrals, the renewal was placed on the August 4 agenda and then pulled again so city staff could change the agreement. The coalition has shown up at every meeting regardless.

Coverage: Free Press OKC · KOCO 5 · The Gayly

Update · June 16

With nothing Flock-related on the council agenda, 8 of 10 public commenters spoke against the cameras anyway. The pressure didn't pause.

Update · July 7

Same play, second time. Flock was not on the July 7 agenda either. Five more residents stood up to speak against the cameras. Thirteen public comments across two consecutive council meetings, both times unprompted. The vote keeps getting deferred, most recently off the August 4 agenda.

See Full Recap Free Press OKC Article
DEFERRED AGAIN · No vote scheduled

Get the FLOCK out of OKC.
Deferred again. Not defeated.

The Flock renewal was pulled from the August 4 agenda so city staff can change the agreement first. The prior contract expired June 30 and the cameras kept running; the city will not bring the deal to a floor vote as written. A coalition of OKC residents, clergy, civil liberties groups, and small-government advocates has shown up at every meeting, and commenters stood up unprompted on June 16 (8 of 10 with Flock off the agenda) and on July 7 (five more). When the vote truly returns, we will be in the room. Same coalition. Same demand. Same answer: no.

Tell City Council:

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Do not renew the Flock contract.
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Remove the Flock cameras.
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Do not use another ALPR vendor.
We don't need them. They're a privacy concern no matter what company owns them.
Easiest action · ~60 seconds

Add your name to the petition.

OKC residents are signing a formal petition - delivered directly to all eight council members, the City Manager, and the Mayor - demanding the city end the Flock contract and reject any replacement ALPR vendor. Hosted by ACLU of Oklahoma; the signatures come from us.

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Resource

Email Template

Editable letter to send your council member. 5 minutes.

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Show-Up Sheet

3-minute talking points + logistics for council comments.

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Day of the Meeting

Show up early

200 N. Walker Ave, 3rd Floor. 8:30 AM. Sign up at "Citizens to be Heard." Watch the agenda for the Flock item to return.

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Be at City Hall when the vote returns

The vote keeps getting deferred. It was placed on the August 4 agenda and then pulled again so city staff could change the agreement. Rather than predict a date and get it wrong, the posture is simple: be in the room when the Flock item truly returns, and demand a recorded vote. A coalition of OKC residents, clergy, and small-government advocates has shown up at every meeting to this point. Three council members - James Cooper (Ward 2), JoBeth Hamon (Ward 6), and Camal Pennington (Ward 7) - are already aligned against renewal. Five have not engaged. Residents stood up on June 16 (8 of 10 speakers against Flock) and again on July 7 (five more), both times with the contract off the agenda. When it returns, the room needs to be full.

200 N. Walker Ave, 3rd Floor - arrive 20-30 minutes early. Sign up to speak under "Citizens to be Heard." You get three minutes. You don't need to be an expert. Just say where you live, that you oppose renewal, and why. Read our show-up sheet (linked above in the vote watch section) for talking points and logistics.

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Contact Your Ward Council Member - This Week

Three council members have already taken a position. Five have not. Your email could be the one that moves a vote. Find your ward representative below and send a short, specific message:

  • You're a resident in their ward (give your street name if you're comfortable)
  • You oppose the Flock Safety contract renewal, which the city keeps deferring
  • OKCPD's own memo confirms there is no oversight framework
  • You want to know how they plan to vote

If your representative is Cooper, Hamon, or Pennington - thank them and ask how you can help. If your representative is Bradley Carter, Katrina Avers, Todd Stone, Matt Hinkle, or Mark Stonecipher, tell them you noticed they weren't at the town hall - and you'd like to hear from them.

Find Your Elected Officials
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Spread the Word

Most OKC residents don't know these cameras exist, let alone that there's zero oversight governing them. Share this site, share the news coverage, talk to your neighbors. The Flock contract renews quietly every year. The more people paying attention, the harder that becomes.

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File Your Own Records Requests

Everything we've found came from public records requests that any resident can file for free. Use JustFOIA or submit directly to the city. Ask about Flock search logs, data sharing with outside agencies, or query volumes. The Oklahoma Open Records Act gives you the right to this information - and every new request builds the public record.

See Our Requests & Templates
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Talk to Media

KOSU, Free Press OKC, KOCO 5, The Gayly, Hoodline, KGOU, News9, KFOR, and Carscoops have all covered this story. If you have contacts at local outlets that haven't yet engaged, point them to the May 27 town hall recap and the documented evidence on this site. The angle is simple: a surveillance system with zero published oversight, confirmed in writing by the department's own memo, with the contract renewal vote repeatedly deferred by council. Reporters can reach us at DeFlockOKC@proton.me.

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Join the National Movement

More than 50 cities have ended Flock contracts since January 2025. Guthrie already terminated theirs. The ACLU and the Institute for Justice - organizations that rarely agree on anything - are aligned in opposing Flock. DeFlockOKC is part of a growing network of communities pushing back. Connect at DeFlock.me, explore the DeflockYourCity Toolkit, read The Case, or reach out to us directly. This movement is bigger than one city.

If You Speak Up

Talking Points for Public Comment

Use these facts - all sourced from public records - when speaking to council, writing letters, or talking to media.

If council or a neighbor reaches for whataboutism - "it's just cameras," "you're already on camera everywhere," "Google is worse" - point them to Common Questions. Every version of that argument, side by side, with the actual difference.

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Lead with the memo

“OKCPD confirmed in writing: no access controls, no audit procedures, no discipline standards, and no transparency reporting exist for the Flock system. That's not my claim - it's their memo, on official letterhead, dated March 10, 2026.”

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Question the vendor

“Flock's leadership claims their platform has never been hacked. Independent researchers have documented numerous confirmed vulnerabilities and found cameras streaming live to the internet - including one pointed at a children's playground. Flock employees were caught accessing gym cameras, including a children's gymnastics room. When researchers reported these findings, Flock's CEO emailed police departments lumping critics in with 'activist groups who want to defund the police, weaken public safety, and normalize lawlessness.' This is the company we're trusting with our data.”

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Quote their own rules back to them

“OKCPD's Operations Manual says ALPR data will not be shared as part of a law enforcement information database. Flock's entire business model is a shared database used by 5,000+ agencies. Their own CEO says cities should have published use policies and regular audits. OKC has neither. We're not even meeting the vendor's own standard.”

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Call out the manual rewrite

“OKCPD's Operations Manual said ALPR data 'will not be shared as part of a law enforcement information database.' The cameras ran under that rule since 2023. Then in 2026 - the year Flock became a national story and residents started filing records requests - the department quietly rewrote that sentence to allow sharing with a single System Administrator's approval. Their explanation to KOSU: policies are 'periodically reviewed and updated.' A review that only ever weakens the rules, and only once people start reading them, is not routine.”

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Federal standard, unanswered locally

“Section 2A.19 of the federal MUTCD requires sign and marker supports in the clear zone to be crashworthy - meaning breakaway, yielding, or shielded by a barrier. Safety advocates in Maine, Colorado, Tennessee, and Iowa have documented Flock camera poles installed in the clear zone without that hardware. My question tonight is simple. Before we renew this contract, can the city produce documentation showing that every OKC Flock pole is either outside the clear zone or uses crashworthy hardware meeting that federal standard, or not?”

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Name the pattern

“Officers in Wisconsin have been charged with using Flock to stalk romantic partners. In San Francisco, outside agencies ran 1.6 million unauthorized searches. Federal agencies accessed Mountain View's Flock data for 17 months without local police knowing. Oshkosh rescinded their contract within 24 hours over Flock lying to council. LAPD walked away this month. More than 50 cities have canceled. The Institute for Justice and the ACLU are both suing in federal court. Our council keeps deferring the vote. When it finally lands, we have one chance to get this right.”

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If they play the murder card

“In 1965, American police cleared roughly nine in ten murders with no cameras and no databases. Today, with every surveillance tool ever built, the national rate is barely above half. Cameras do not solve murders. Witnesses, community trust, and detectives solve murders. And a system sold to this council as a license plate checker can only help a murder case by doing the one thing we were told it would not do: reconstruct anyone's movements, retroactively, without a warrant. When the department cites a case tonight, remember its own written answer from July 10: no records exist linking Flock to case outcomes. The anecdote is unverifiable by their own admission.”

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Close with the ask

“I am asking this council to do three things: do not renew the Flock contract, remove the cameras, and do not contract with any other ALPR vendor. We don't need them. Surveillance does not make OKC safer. Thank you.”

A Note on Vandalism

Cutting the cameras down does not make them go away.

DeFlockOKC does not advocate for or condone the destruction of Flock property. The reason is not that we respect the vendor. It is that we understand the math.

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The city already paid for the cameras.

When one is cut down, Flock sends new hardware, invoices OKC again, and charges for reinstallation. National reporting on the vandalism wave puts pole replacement alone at $500 to $2,000, with the damaged camera billed on top. The bolt cutters do not send Flock an invoice. They send one to the city. Every destroyed camera is a second sale, and Flock is the vendor that profits from it.

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The replacements go up fast.

Every documented case of Flock cameras being cut down in the U.S. has ended the same way - within days or weeks, new hardware is on the same pole. It is a temporary hole in the network, not a permanent removal.

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It hands the department a political talking point.

Every destroyed camera becomes evidence that "vandals" oppose ALPRs, which makes it easier for OKCPD to keep them.

The action that actually removes these cameras is the one that costs Flock a customer instead of another sale: get council to vote down the renewal. That vote keeps getting deferred. Show up when it returns. Speak up. Sign the petition. That is the fix that lasts.

The Hard Line

Get the FLOCK out of OKC.

Surveillance does not make Oklahoma City safer. It is mass data collection on every resident who drives a car, operated by an unaccountable private vendor, with documented harms in every jurisdiction it has been deployed. We are not asking for better policies on Flock. We are asking for Flock to be removed and for no replacement vendor to take its place.

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Do not renew the Flock contract.

The current contract term ended June 30, 2026 and has been extended while the renewal is repeatedly deferred; it was pulled from the August 4 agenda so staff could change the agreement. The Council should vote against renewal and let the contract lapse.

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Remove the Flock cameras.

Direct Flock Safety to cease operating and physically remove all of its ALPR hardware from public infrastructure in Oklahoma City.

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Do not contract with another ALPR vendor.

If Flock goes, Axon or another vendor cannot be quietly signed in its place. We don't need them. They are a privacy concern no matter what company owns them. If OKC wants this kind of system, it must hold a public hearing first - and we will be there to argue it doesn't.

If you believe in small government, this is small government. A private corporation has built a mass surveillance system that the government itself would not be allowed to build directly. Police agencies pay the corporation to access it. The data leaves city limits. Public records law can't touch it. This is big government, wearing a corporate badge.

DeFlock America · Field Guide

Live somewhere else? Bring this fight to your hometown.

Flock sells the same product in roughly 5,000 American cities - and the harms are the same in every one of them. We've published a field guide with the exact FOIA templates we used, council strategy, allies to find, and downloadable starter packs that work in any state. Use it to push back in your town. Send your findings back so we can connect residents working on this everywhere.

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