Tell the Chandler City Council NO to mass surveillance!
Join us in attending the Chandler City Council meeting TOMORROW, on May 21 to tell the council to NOT renew their contract with Flock. Flock and other ALPR camera footage can be utilized by ICE to terrorize and target our neighbors, and they are a threat to our privacy. Join us to say NO to mass surveillance.
Additionally, please email the city council (it’s SUPER EASY) using our template with the button below, and submit a public comment urging the City Council to cancel their contract with Flock. For the public comment form, renewing the Flock contract will be agenda item number 14. You can also view the template in plain text at the bottom of this page.
Why are we opposed to Flock?
Many, many, many reasons. Here a a few key ones:
Mass Surveillance
Flock and other Automated License Plate Reader (ALPR) cameras take and analyze pictures of all passing vehicles, identifying information such as a location, date, and time, and details such as a car’s make, model, color, dents and other imperfections, stickers, etc., creating “searchable data points”. This means Flock documents millions of cars under the guise of fighting crime, without a warrant. Does this sound dangerous? Yes? That’s because it is.
ICE Can Access Flock Data
Many police agencies share data from ALPR cameras with ICE. This gives an agency famous for violating the rule of law and the Constitution access to mass surveillance, and greatly increases their ability and reach. This creates a threat to the livelihoods of undocumented people, immigrants, and entire communities.
Flock Has Sh*tty Security
Seriously. 404 Media has reported that “a security researcher found Flock accounts for sale on a Russian cybercrime forum”. “Using a commercial search engine” someone “very easily found the administration interfaces for dozens of Flock Safety cameras… None of the data or video footage was encrypted. There was no username or password required.” This is not a secure way for police to track crime. It’s a mass surveillance system that has been and will be accessed by the wrong people.
Flock and Palantir are Controlled by Billionaires
Billionaire Peter Thiel co-founded Palantir, and a venture capital firm he founded has also invested in Flock. According to the Colorado Sun, “Palantir has contracts with Immigration and Customs Enforcement worth nearly $140 million, and police departments across the U.S. accessed Denver’s Flock data for ICE- and immigration-related searches nearly 1,400 times between 2024 and 2025.” Both are assisting ICE, and both are backed by billionaires.
Flock Targets Hispanic Communities in Chandler
Proponents of Flock in Chandler claim that cameras are not placed in residential areas and that demographics do not play a role in placement. Chandler currently has 40 Flock cameras. 9 of those are within 1 square mile, which also happens to be the only area of Chandler where over 60% of the population is Hispanic, based on data from census tracts. One of those is pointed directly at Galveston Elementary School, in the middle of a residential neighborhood. Nearby cameras on major roads are facing into the neighborhood, rather than toward the main road.
Template Email or Public Comment
I am writing to express my opposition to renewing Chandler’s contract with Flock. Automated License Plate Reader (ALPR) cameras like Flock take and analyze images of all passing vehicles, collecting a huge amount of information, including dents on cars, and bumper stickers. This all happens without a warrant, which concerns me because this is mass surveillance of your constituents without consent. Flock is also known for faulty security. According to 404 Media, “using a commercial search engine” someone “very easily found the administration interfaces for dozens of Flock Safety cameras… None of the data or video footage was encrypted. There was no username or password required.” Not only am I opposed to mass surveillance, but considering Flock is not secure, and those I know in the Chandler community are not comfortable with the ALPR cameras, I urge you to not renew Chandler’s contract with Flock.