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September 10, 2026, Sacramento Bee: Elk Grove police say Flock camera safeguards have improved. Residents remain concerned
September 10, 2026, Elk Grove News: Elk Grove Police, Sheriff and DA defend ALPR surveillance: First of two-part story
September 10, 2026, Elk Grove News: Part 2: Elk Grove residents challenge police defense of ALPR surveillance
September 8, 2026, Elk Grove News: DeFlock Elk Grove increases pressure on Mayor Singh-Allen over ALPR cameras
September 3, 2026, Elk Grove News: DeFlock Elk Grove petition tests whether City Council will listen — or wait out ALPR critics
August 29, 2026, Elk Grove News: 21 speakers tell Elk Grove City Council: End Flock — and don’t replace it
August 29, 2026, Elk Grove News: Who Searched Elk Grove’s License Plate Data 1.3 Million Times?
August 26, 2026, Telemundo 33: Residentes de Elk Grove piden cancelar contrato con Flock; autoridades defienden su uso
August 26, 2026, Elk Grove News: Bipartisan opposition to police surveillance cameras confronts Elk Grove City Council
August 22, 2026, Sacramento News & Review: North State backlash against Flock and other surveillance cameras
August 22, 2026, Sacramento Bee: Two Flock cameras on same road vandalized in one week, Folsom police report
August 20, 2026, Sacramento Bee: Listen to Sacramento resident explain concerns about Flock cameras
August 17, 2026, Elk Grove News: Flock camera fight heads to Elk Grove City Council as privacy concerns grow
August 13, 2026, Elk Grove News: Elk Grove City Council approves $449,000 armored police vehicle with little discussion. Combined with the Flock surveillance placed throughout the city, is Elk Grove in a police state?
August 8, 2026, ABC News: Galt police say Flock cameras helped track kidnapping suspect in 5 minutes
August 8, 2026: Elk Grove News: Elk Grove News Minute Podcast – The Surveillance State Starts at City Hall
August 5, 2026, CBS News: Audit raises questions over who is accessing Elk Grove license plate camera data
August 4, 2026, Sacramento Bee: Elk Grove residents’ Flock camera data shared with thousands of groups, audit finds
August 3, 2026, Elk Grove News: DeFlock Elk Grove audit challenges Flock camera practices
July 31, 2026, Business Insider: In one California town, Flock misread license plates in 71% of the alerts it sent to police
June 16, 2026, Sacramento Bee: Man sues Elk Grove, county over traffic stop involving recovered stolen trailer
April 14, 2026, Elk Grove Citizen: Council Approves Automatic License Plate Reader Contract Amendment
April 13, 2026, Sacramento Bee: Elk Grove approves $1.6M contract with controversial license plate reader company
April 9, 2026: Elk Grove News: Residents raise civil liberty concerns over Elk Grove’s Flock surveillance contract extension, no-bid process
April 7, 2026, Elk Grove News: Elk Grove to Expand Flock License Plate Reader Program Despite Privacy Concerns and Growing Opposition
March 23, 2026, Elk Grove News: Mayor, City Council to Review Elk Grove Police License Plate Reader as ‘deflock_elkgrove’ Urges Public Input as Privacy Concerns Grow in Sacramento Region

California

September 4, 2026, The Daily Californian: UC Berkeley faces lawsuit over Flock records as surveillance controversy grows
September 1, 2026, The Stockton Record: ‘Get the Flock out’: Residents urge Stockton City Council to end Flock contract
August 28, 2026, North State Public Radio: License plate reader camera debate grows across North State
August 25, 2026, 404 Media: The Man Behind the Anti-Flock Darth Vader Mask Wants to Know: ‘When Will This End?’
August 24, 2026, Secure Justice: SB 1013 Risks Normalizing Warrantless Mass Location Surveillance in California
August 24, 2026, Palo Alto Online: Activists flood Palo Alto City Hall to protest Flock cameras
August 22, 2026, ABC 10 News: Roseville group calls for end to Flock cameras as police defend technology
August 20, 2026, 404 Media: ‘Darth Vader’ Wants Flock in San Diego
August 18, 2026, Palo Alto Online: Palo Alto set to begin Flock audit amid growing public backlash
August 12, 2026, Gold Mountain California News: Public has spoken: Get the Flock (cameras) out of Auburn
August 11, 2026, CBS News: Grass Valley police indefinitely suspend Flock license plate cameras
July 31, 2026, Sierra Daily News: Siskiyou County Sheriff Will Not Move Forward With Flock Camera Program
July 22, 2026, Vanguard News Group: Winters Residents Say: Get the Flock Out of Here!
July 10, 2026, ABC 7 News: LAPD ending deal with company operating license plate-reading cameras
July 3, 2026, Yahoo! News: Feds Secretly Ran 300 Illegal Searches Through San Francisco’s License Plate Cameras
June 25, 2026, Inyo Register: Bishop tells camera vendor to ‘Flock’ off
June 18, 2026, SF Gate: SF: Flock Denies That Feds Directly Accessed Camera System
June 17, 2026, Mission Local: Feds ‘improperly’ accessed S.F. license-plate surveillance data, audit finds
June 7, 2026, Downtown News: A Flock license plate reader linked a San Diego man to a violent crime. He was five miles away.
May 6, 2026, Contra Costa News: El Cerrito Votes to End Flock Contract, Cameras Go Dark June 7
April 22, 2026, Palo Alto Online: Palo Alto license plate data searched by hundreds of out-of-state agencies
April 16, 2026, CBS News: San Jose residents sue over city’s automated license plate reader network, citing mass surveillance concerns
March 6, 2026, Palo Alto Online: Palo Alto looks to audit Flock license plate cameras after breaches in other cities
February 27, 2026, GibbsMura: Flock License Plate Cameras Face Class Action Lawsuit by Gibbs Mura, A Law Group
November 18, 2025, The Oaklandside: Oakland police hit with lawsuit for sharing license plate camera data with feds
October 3, 2025, CalMatters: California sues city over surveillance data, warns it can be shared with federal agencies
October 3, 2025, CalMatters: Newsom just vetoed a bill to regulate license plate readers — even as fresh evidence of misuse emerges
July 23, 2025, ACLU: Surveillance Company Flock Now Using AI to Report Us to Police if it Thinks Our Movement Patterns Are “Suspicious”
April 22, 2021, Electronic Frontier Foundation: Data Driven 2: California Dragnet—New Data Set Shows Scale of Vehicle Surveillance in the Golden State
February 13, 2020, Electronic Frontier Foundation: California Auditor Releases Damning Report About Law Enforcement’s Use of Automated License Plate Readers

National

September 10, 2026, USA Today: Sheriff’s investigator accused of spying on ex using Flock cameras
September 9, 2026, The American Prospect: Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists
September 8, 2026, 404 Media: A Secretive DHS ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit is Analyzing Americans’ Financial Habits and Pulling Them Over
September 8, 2026, KBTX3: Bastrop City Council votes to terminate Flock contract, prevent similar cameras in the future
September 4, 2026, Independent First for Atlanta: Georgia woman files class action suit against Flock Safety
September 3, 2026, Fox6 News Milwaukee: Sheboygan canceling Flock contract over undisclosed data tracking
September 3, 2026, 404 Media: Flock Taught Cops How to Surveil No Kings Protesters
September 2, 2026, 404 Media: Texas Police Used AI to Write Report About Using Flock to Search for Woman Who Had Abortion
September 2, 2026, 404 Media: Cops Are Asking Axon to Make Their Cameras Look Different From Flock So People Don’t Destroy Them
September 2, 2026, Fox Carolina: ‘Rampant misuse’: Federal class-action lawsuit filed against Flock
September 1, 2026, Patch: Flock Cameras Going Away In Joliet Township: Highway Commissioner Alessio Explains His Decision
August 28, 2026, ARS Technica: Cities terminate Flock contracts at record pace in August
August 26, 2026, CNN: Police officer arrested after tracking ex-girlfriend on Flock camera system over 2,000 times, authorities say
August 26, 2026, Electronic Frontier Foundation: EFF’s Policy Position on ALPR Surveillance: Eliminate It and Reduce Its Harms
August 25, 2026, Houston Public Media: Former Katy officer faces charges after allegedly using Flock cameras to track ex-wife
August 22, 2026, Boston Glove: Two more Mass. towns drop controversial Flock surveillance cameras
August 20, 2026, KXII 10 News: Marietta cancels Flock camera contract after residents raise privacy concerns
August 20, 2026, Straight Arrow News: Grand jury declines to indict Ohio man charged with destroying Flock camera
August 20, 2026, WBRZ2 ABC: Jefferson Parish deputy fired after allegedly using Flock cameras to track ex thousands of times
August 19, 2026, Wired: Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code.
August 19, 2026, The San Francisco Standard: Why did Flock get a private investigator license?
August 16, 2026, CBS News: Hood County shuts down Flock cameras over privacy concerns
August 14, 2026, KCRA: Massachusetts police officer accused of abusing Flock camera system to track ex-girlfriend
August 13, 2026, Independent Institute: Chatrie v. United States and What it Means for Flock Cameras
August 13, 2026, Wired: CBP Workers Allegedly Used Government Databases to Spy on Exes, Crushes, and Colleagues
August 13, 2026, Reason: She Spent 7 Months in Legal Hell After Cops Used Flock Surveillance To Identify the Wrong Car
August 13, 2026, Guessing Headlights: Flock Camera Mistakenly Flags SUV as Stolen, Causing Police to Draw Guns and Handcuff Innocent Driver
August 12, 2026, CBS News: 3 Georgia deputies arrested after allegedly using Flock cameras to stalk people they knew
August 12, 2026, CBS News Channel 6: Bowie City Manager tries to intimidate resident during City Council discussing Flock Cameras
August 7, 2026, 404 Media: Flock Pitched a Plan To Turn Uber and Lyft Drivers Into Roaming Surveillance Vehicles
August 6, 2026, ABC News: Officer allegedly used Flock license plate cameras to track boyfriend’s ex-wife: Police chief
August 5, 2026, 404 Media: Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines to Create Pretext to Search His Car for Weed
August 5, 2026, IPM News: Urbana enacts ordinance to require council approval for use of surveillance technology
August 3, 2026, 404 Media: ‘Own the Narrative’: Leaked Flock Guide Shows How It Teaches Cops to Promote Its Tech
August 3, 2026, 404 Media: Why a Flock Worker Quit: ‘They Lied’
July 28, 2026, Atlanta Community Press Collective: Flock, Ring and Atlanta’s network of more than 28,000 integrated cameras haven’t improved city’s crime clearance rates
July 23, 2026, 404 Media: Flock’s CEO Says its ALPRs Don’t Do Video After Repeatedly Announcing They Can
July 22, 2026, 404 Media: Flock ‘Objects to Our Removing Their Equipment’: Emails Reveal Why a Town Put Bags Over Its Flock Cameras
July 22, 2026, Jason Hunyar: Flock Lies To Police About Techs Capabilities
July 21, 2026, USA Today: Another Georgia cop accused of misusing Flock data in growing trend
July 16, 2026, 404 Media: How Cops Use Flock to Track People, Not Cars
July 15, 2026, Truthout: The Fight Against Surveillance Cameras Is a Struggle for Democracy
July 14, 2026, ACLU of Wisconsin: Who Watches the Watchers? ACLU of Wisconsin Reacts to Reports of At Least Two More Police Under Investigation for Flock Misuse
July 14, 2026, Secure Justice: Chatrie: Old Doctrine, New Surveillance
July 14, 2026, ABC 9 News: Newport to remove Flock cameras, end pilot program – this city removed ALPRs in part due to the United States Supreme Court ruling in Chatrie v. United States (2026).
July 9, 2026, Fox 11 News: 2nd Milwaukee officer charged with using Flock cameras for stalking
July 6, 2026, 404 Media: Footage Shows Cop Stalking Woman He Met on a TV Set After Surveilling Her With a License Plate Reader
July 2, 2026, ACLU: Flock Safety Credibility Lost as it Repeatedly Lies to City Councils, Police Departments, and Public Across the Country
June 29, 2026, SCOTUS Blog: Court rules that law enforcement’s use of “geofence warrant” was a “search”
June 26, 2026, AP News: ATF cancels phone tracking contract after lawmakers raise concerns
June 19, 2026, Jason Hunyar: Flock’s Nationwide Network of Your Data Has a Price List
June 15, 2026, IPVM: Flock Misappropriates MythBusters
June 15, 2026, Jason Hunyar on Substack: Caught Watching Our Kids, Then Wiped Clean
June 12, 2026, 404 Media: ‘You Will Not Speak on Flock Tonight’: County Commissioner Refuses to Let Residents Opposing Flock Speak at Meeting
June 11, 2026, 404 Media: Flock Leaked Cops’ License Plate Searches via DuckDuckGo, Bing
June 8, 2026, 404 Media: This Company Will Add Phone, AirPod, and Smartwatch Trackers to License Plate Readers
May 28, 2026, ABC Denver: Boulder residents sue police department over Flock camera surveillance
May 28, 2026, 404 Media: Cities Are Covering Flock Cameras With Trash Bags
May 26, 2026, Dayton Daily News: Dayton police major’s resignation effective June 1 following Flock program suspension
May 26, 2026, Electronic Frontier Foundation: More License Plate Reader Mission Creep: School Residency Verification, Background Checks, and Noise Complaints
May 26, 2026, Wired: US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows
May 22, 2026, Truthout: Resistance to Flock Cameras and Police Surveillance Is Exploding
May 18, 2026, 404 Media: The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers
April 30, 2026, 404 Media: City Learns Flock Accessed Cameras in Children’s Gymnastics Room as a Sales Pitch Demo, Renews Contract Anyway
April 14, 2026, ACLU: More than a Dozen Wrongful Arrests Due to Police Reliance on Facial Recognition Technology
April 14, 2026, CBS News: Ex-Costa Mesa police officer accused of using FLOCK cameras to track his mistress
April 9, 2026, The Citizen Lab: Uncovering Webloc: An Analysis of Penlink’s Ad-based Geolocation Surveillance Tech
April 6, 2026, 404 Media: Wildlife Conservation Police Are Searching Thousands of Flock Cameras for ICE
March 11, 2026, 404 Media: From Flock to ICE, Here’s a Breakdown of How You’re Being Watched
March 1, 2026, ABC News: Report reveals Virginia police misuse of license plate reader technology
February 28, 2026: Mass surveillance is in this town, paid for by your tax dollars.
January 12, 2026, 404 Media: How Benn Jordan Discovered Flock’s Cameras Were Left Streaming to the Internet
January 8, 2026, 404 Media: Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods
June 27, 2025, Electronic Frontier Foundation: Flock Safety’s Feature Updates Cannot Make Automated License Plate Readers Safe
February 11, 2025: Inside Investigator: Flock camera lawsuit can move forward