Updates
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Springfield PD responds to our FOIA request
Springfield Police Department released documents in response to our FOIA request, including the locations that AI cameras will be installed in the city. They neglected to include the contract between the city and the surveillance vendor Flock Safety, but we followed up to make sure its on its way. We’re sorting through the information and…
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50+ community members show up for Police Commission meeting on Flock surveillance
On July 10, the Eugene Police Commission held its monthly meeting with policy for the Flock Safety surveillance system on the agenda. Eugeneans showed up in numbers to voice their disapproval. Commissioners were moved by comments about this technology making us less safe and delayed a vote on the ALPR policy. Thank you Eugene for…
Local coverage
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Springfield police to deploy license-plate cameras, but release few details
The Springfield Police Department plans to install 25 license-plate-reading cameras in the next few months, but is declining to identify which law enforcement agencies will have access to the data the cameras collect. Flock Safety has stressed that local departments make decisions on how to share the data collected by the camera readers. But published…
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Eugene residents concerned about police surveillance cameras
The Register-Guard reported on July 10’s Eugene Police Commission meeting, which was almost entirely about public opposition to Flock. Police Commission chair Jensina Hawkins was quoted as saying, “This is definitely the largest police comission meeting I have ever seen for public comment. I am very impressed.” Read the article here. You can also watch…
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Residents protest flock cameras, demand transparency on Eugene surveillance policies
…Residents also demanded answers about flock safety cameras – the cameras placed around the city that record a vehicle’s license plate number and other details like make, model, and color.
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Dissonant Times: Let’s Leave the Flock
Some of the earliest local reporting on Eugene’s decision to install Flock surveillance systems throughout the city came from local grass-roots journalists at Dissonant Times, with their article “Let’s Leave the Flock” (archive link) on June 22, 2025. Not only were they early to the party, but their reporting is excellent. They provide far more…
National news
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Oakland and San Francisco Police Get Caught Sharing Flock Data With Feds
In yet another case of law enforcement personnel sharing Flock data with federal agencies, in violation of state laws explicitly prohibiting it, the San Francisco Standard on July 14, 2025, revealed that officers in Oakland and San Francisco had been performing Flock lookups on behalf of federal agencies (archive link), including ICE. This is a…
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Southern California Law Enforcement Gets Caught Sharing Flock Data With ICE
On June 13, 2025, CalMatters broke the news that multiple law enforcement agencies in southern California had been ignoring state law and sharing data collected by ALPRs (archive link) with federal agencies, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). CalMatters writes that, “state law enforcement agencies are barred from sharing license plate reader data with out-of-state…
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Texas law enforcement uses Flock in national search of woman who had an abortion
This Dallas Morning News article reports on a Texas sheriff using Flock to perform a national search for a woman who had an abortion.