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What does it actually take to get a surveillance company removed from your city? Apparently, about six months. A hand saw and 13 cameras that were cut down and then thrown into the road. In strangers are celebrating everywhere are celebrating. He's not alone. Oakland police investigates Flock camera vandalism. He's not alone. We got the ACLU. We got the ACLU. A full, proving this huge company has been lying. Multiple lies. And over and over again. The name of the company, it is Flock Safety. Your city probably has a camera system in some capacity. Probably didn't vote on. That did vote for this stuff. Second thoughts. 39 other cities in five months, just in 2026 alone. Suit. Why is this happening? The Nationwide Revolt Against Flock Safety Cameras. From New York to Alabama to Arizona, everyday people are mounting a local resistance to the company's mass surveillance. And sometimes, they take matters into their own hands. So let's talk Americans are destroying cameras. Why everybody else is canceling their contracts with them. Lapse. Hey, I'm V. Never heard safety before. Probably the, but they've heard about Flock. Clear evidence. Safer communities. Privacy first. Flock connects communities, businesses, and public safety so incidents can be understood clearly and decisions can be made on facts. See how it works. 10,000 cases Flock supported last year. 1 million cases Flock supported last year. 12,000 Flock nationwide. Privacy built into the system. How we protect your data. Cells, your data and AI technology. They sell cameras, plate readers, and they are a crime fighting tool. To cities, just like that. Some Batman tech. These anywhere your city, and you probably of telephone. And then crime happens. Those cameras and be able to who was in of the boom. Boom bop. Got the baddie. Their framework lifting. A mass adopted by dozens of cities few years. Tons of cameras everywhere, tracking you license plate as data every day on your route. These cameras, collecting. It feels passive until you realize cameras do routine. If someone wanted to nefarious this data or use this data, they could in theory. Leaving the door wide open. Flock surveillance systems expose WA data to immigration enforcement. University of Washington Center for Human Rights. Uses and this data. Flock safety has cameras, 5,000 communities across right now. Where you are in the United. Now, your driving pattern. It's all in a corporate database. That is accessible. When your city these cameras in your community, know that. They did didn't care. They did helping the police. Receipts on how Flock managed their way into all of our communities. Didn't their pitch decks either. On their website, in blog publicly lied, brazenly lied. And the ACLU entire report, an investigative report on July 2nd about it all. Safety. Flock safety told cities cameras did where people go over time, look at patterns. Routes, just snapshots. Specifically triggered during a crime. That was not. It was a lie. The cameras quite literally maps using the movement patterns. The company has routine behavior profiles. They are keeping the data. Is clear. Cameras have an amazing zoom ability. In 4K, they can see everything. Before we get to the community of destroying. We have to go to. We have to go to Wisconsin. That happened. Actually stood. Flock safety within 24 hours of being boldface lied to. Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Oshkosh, a city in Winnebago County, Wisconsin, United States. Population 66,816. The city council a contract with the company after hearing their pitch of lies. The city fell for the lies. The contract next day. When faced company has then lied to the city. Ultimately, the Oshkosh City Council voted to immediately revoke its approval, thereby setting a record for the shortest time between a city approving and cancelling a Flock contract: one day. - via ACLU report (2026). The city canceled almost in less than 24 hours to revocation. It was over for Flock community. It's okay at Flock's failure are a horrible company. Flock contract terminations. Termination = termination, non-renewal, non-award, pause 2026. 82 total contracts ended. 39 Jan-May 2026. 28 states affected. Filter by action: All actions. And since 2021, 82 contracts. And this year alone, 39 happened in the first six months. Be progress, at least to undo the bad. And all of the beginning. We got here. Flock weasels into everything. Lie after lie. And shocker. Once they communities, the lies did. Which brings the horrific blog post. A flagrant. This company just doesn't care about lying at all. Flock safety itself published a blog on their website titled Does Flock Share Data With ICE? No. They publish. That was the title. They lied. The ACLU has documented. In fact, found access to this data. And when the ACLU brought this all a two Flock itself, they scoffed. At the the evidence, and the company said, "A minor nuance." Just nuances. Nuances like like something insignificant, and an organization like the ACLU, is telling you all of this evidence, right, misrepresented what you in these that you lied to these cities that trusted you with their communities data. You can't call that a nuance. The entire and pitch isn't a nuance. It's its. The whole thing. And they did not retract the lie. They published it and let it stand. Doing that, in some way degrading facing appearance. More people that Flock safety is your safety. Data collection. And ultimately data collection to harm. Currently. What's different story compared corporate stories. Nothing happened. People are pushing back. There are growing coalitions organizers, and civil just like the ACLU, working super. Get these cameras. Our communities. Showing up to and fighting. The receipts. These cities. That this company is lying to. They are the ones these town halls. What did this company tell you? And can you prove is true? The ACLU report is that work? The Oshkosh City Council is an example of that. People are doing the work. We see folks working towards meaningful change. We also see it on an level. Meet Jeff. Full video out now!!! They are tearing down Flock cams. Air Force Engineer Accused of Cutting Down 13 Police Cameras Says They're Unconstitutional. Meet Jeff. With the hacksaw. An Air Force engineer spent locating Flock safety cameras in his area. Those cameras. Cameras down with a handsaw, and throw of the overpass. Many in see him as a hero! And across people have been these cameras down, destroying Flock cameras. Solar panels smashed in Ohio. Cameras saw two down in both Georgia and North. North Carolina. Carolina. Some cut in half in Texas. Some were outright stolen in Arkansas. Destroyed out. Virginia Man Charged With Wrecking 13 Flock Cameras -- Pleads Not Guilty, Argues Surveillance Breach. Virginia. In Virginia. New Mexico Man Vows to Keep Destroying Flock Surveillance Cameras. Rex Edison. Wed, July 15, 2026 at 7:26 AM PDT - 3 min read. New Mexico. Installed a sign saying, quote, You're welcome, Republic of New Mexico. You can see is there. And the fight is here. Are pushing back. Are selling to the largest police force, that is Damir. A military is even saying, our community too safe. That should. What did they? What did they Flock didn't mistakes. Calculations and marketing. They expected to be met by cities and their police forces that are already militarized. This technology without question, without probing. Most residents won't even know until it's up. Because not is online. Learning about. By the time it out, the data already exists. Being packaged. And sold off. Or being used for really bad stuff. To someone you think that to hear about it, and know Flock is up to. And why Americans are trying to get it communities. Does your city? And have you even looked? ACLU resources in description! How to Fight Deployment of Flock and Other Mass Surveillance License Plate Readers in Your Community. The ACLU provides a range of tactics for communities to stop or limit the use of Flock's ALPR mass surveillance technology. Link below. ACLU. Read our local advocacy toolkit and join the movement to tell Flock and other ALPR companies: "Get The Flock Out!". You can see where allegedly is. Flock Out Toolkit. Show up to a city. Drop your Flock Out Toolkit. All of this in the comments. Contract 40 is on. 41 is next. Next time. Bye.