Tell the Chandler City Council NO to mass surveillance!
We’ve already gotten 5 cameras removed, including 1 pointed at Galveston Elementary.
Let’s finish the fight.
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Join us in attending the Chandler City Council meeting on July 16 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.
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Why are we opposed to Flock?
Many, many, many reasons. Here are 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.
Chandler PD Has Given False Information About the Cameras
Importantly, our argument against Flock is not anti-law enforcement; instead the way Flock has been used and presented in Chandler is problematic.
When asked by Mayor Kevin Hartke near the beginning of the May 21 meeting, “So there is no cameras at Galveston School or anywhere off of Hamilton, the interior there, related to the items that we’re talking about tonight?”, the representative from Chandler Police responded, “No, sir.”
The recording of the meeting can be found here.
At a special study session on May 18, both Chandler PD claimed that demographics do not play a role in camera placement, and that cameras are not placed in residential areas.
Throughout the public comment period, multiple people mentioned they had visited the camera at Galveston Elementary in-person days prior, and the camera, including the direction it was pointed in, can be seen on Google Maps street view. There are two other cameras on Hamilton St, and two others on Galveston St that would be considered in the “interior”, all pointed into the neighborhood rather than at the major roads, contrary to previous claims by the representative from Chandler Police. This square mile is also the only area of Chandler where over 60% of the population is Hispanic.
The camera at Galveston Elementary did exist, cameras were in residential areas, and this high concentration of cameras was in the only area of the city where the majority of people are Hispanic.
After the public comment period, when pressed again about the camera pointed at the school, the Chandler Police Chief admitted, “that is a Flock camera on Galveston.” He then went on to say, “Since this meeting started, we sent people out there and we’ve removed that camera from that area.” We forced their hand, but they still gave false information.