Updates
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Town hall at the University of Oregon on November 8, 2025
PSL has arranged a Flock town hall at UO on Saturday, November 8, with a panel and public Q&A. Please join us! WHEN: Saturday, November 8, 2025, from 5:00pm to 7:30pm.WHERE: Living Learning Center South (LLC 101) on the UO campus Or join us via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/91056349818?pwd=7rbOcfI6T01fvwStlDsWFUAk9i47Sw.1
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Eyes Off Eugene Responds to Senator Wyden’s Flock Agreement
Eyes on Eugene has issued a formal statement addressing the implications of a recent agreement reached with by Senator Ron Wyden with Flock Safety. The statement outlines the organization’s position, concerns, and expectations moving forward. Read the full press release:https://eyesoffeugene.org/statement-on-agreement
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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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EFF: Police use Flock against protestors and activists
On November 20, 2025, the Electronic Frontier Foundation published a report that it had identified, through public records requests, hundreds of searches by more than 50 federal, state, and local police agencies across the country (archive link), containing terms like “protest” or “no kings”. These searches coincided with multiple political protests throughout the year, despite
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The Civil Liberties Defense Center Issues a Scathing Statement to City Council
The CLDC lays out legal arguments surrounding the City of Eugene’s use of Flock cameras. …It is our opinion that when EPD – as an Oregon law enforcement agency —implements Flock, it is violating ORS 181A.250
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Community makes an impact on Springfield City Council
On Tuesday, September 2nd, residents showed up in numbers to the Springfield City Council meeting to voice concerns over the adoption of Flock surveillance AI cameras in the community. With more than 100 community members in attendance (standing room only), and 12 public comments about the adoption of Flock and the dangers it poses, the
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Springfield police chief Jami Resch: Flock use will be “transparent”
Lookout Eugene-Sprinfield published an article on August 8, “Springfield chief promises transparency in rolling out license-plate readers” (archive link). The article includes a number of statements from police chief Resch, trying to reassure residents that their concerns are being considered. It also notes that it was the previous police chief, Andrew Shearer, who pursued the
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Dissonant Times Continues To Get It Right, Debunks Three Lies From EPD
Dissonant Times has had far better, more technically accurate, and more in-depth reporting on Flock than other local media. They previously reported on Flock with their June 22nd article, “Let’s Leave The Flock” (archive link). That article predated coordinated local efforts to oppose Flock, but it included specific known camera locations and a number of
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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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EFF: Police use Flock against protestors and activists
On November 20, 2025, the Electronic Frontier Foundation published a report that it had identified, through public records requests, hundreds of searches by more than 50 federal, state, and local police agencies across the country (archive link), containing terms like “protest” or “no kings”. These searches coincided with multiple political protests throughout the year, despite
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Police officer terminated after abusing Flock access to… train a competitor?
Well, at least this is a form of Flock abuse we hadn’t heard of before. On October 10, 2025, Appen Media reported that a police officer in Sandy Springs, Georgia, had resigned after a whistleblower said that he had used Flock data to try to help a potential Flock competitor improve their software (archive link).
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Evansville, Indiana Provides Federal Agencies With Access To Their Flock Surveillance Network
The Courier & Press, on July 22, 2025, published an article about its town’s use of Flock and the data that Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office has been sharing with federal agencies (archive link). Evansville is located in southern Indiana and has a population of about 120,000. Houston Harwood, the journalist at Courier & Press that
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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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Five Virginia Counties Found To Be Sharing Flock Data With Federal Agencies
The Virginia Center for Investigative Journalism at WHRO published an excellent article, “Fed’s hidden immigration weapon: Virginia’s surveillance network“, on July 3, 2025 (archive link). The article exposes data sharing between five county police departments in Virginia and federal authorities on a variety of cases, including immigration. The journalists’ investigation was based upon earlier data
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California Police Get Caught Searching Flock Data For “Immigration Protest”
404Media on June 17 published findings from a public records request to the Redlands Police Department, in California, that revealed yet more instances of abuse of Flock’s data sharing features (archive link). On February 3, the Escondido Police Department was able to search Redlands’ Flock surveillance network, and provided their search reason as “immigration protest”,
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Oregon Law Enforcement Gets Caught Sharing Back Door Access With Feds
On June 16, 2025, 404Media once again broke Flock-related news, this time with the results of an extensive public records request that revealed the existence of the Southern Oregon Analyst Group (archive link). The Southern Oregon Analyst Group is apparently a coalition of members of several different police agencies who are casually sharing data over
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Florida Highway Patrol Routinely and Openly Uses Flock For Immigration Enforcement
On June 15, 2025, the Orlando Sentinel reported on data showing that Florida’s highway patrol had used Flock Safety’s surveillance network for immigration-related purposes over 250 times (archive link) between March 13 and May 5. The Orlando Sentinel quoted reporting from 404Media, which said that the searches had been done “either at the behest of
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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.