Tell Tempe: NO to mass surveillance

Tempe is no longer sharing Flock data with other agencies, and the city will not renew its contract in 2027. Instead, the police want to replace Flock with another ALPR company. We need to make sure that doesn’t happen, and that Tempe can’t continue this mass surveillance system under the guise of another company.

The two most impactful things you can do right now are emailing the city council, and attending the August 31 council meeting, demanding the Flock contract be terminated immediately, and that an ordinance be passed ending ALPRs in Tempe.

Bonus – when you see an ALPR camera on your day-to-day business, let us know. We’re working on mapping Tempe’s cameras.

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What is an ALPR?

ALPRs are cameras that capture information on every single vehicle that passes by. This includes not only a car’s license plate, but date, time, location, and increasingly, make, model, bumper stickers, dents, and any other identifiable characteristics that can be picked up by the AI systems embedded in this surveillance technology. This type of dragnet surveillance is what violates our constitutional rights. The ACLU argues that using ALPR systems gives the government “unprecedented powers of surveillance that upset traditional expectations of privacy in violation of the Fourth Amendment”. This is an issue that applies to all ALPRs, not just from Flock. This includes Axon, Motorola, Genetec, Leonardo, and any other ALPR company.

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