FlockSafety
FlockSafety’s own words
Municipal information
- FlockSafety contract with Ithaca from 2023-Nov-01 (PDF)
- Public comments for the City Council prepared by Cornell Law students
- Tompkins County Legislature - October 7, 2025 Livestream recording
Data
- Ithaca PD Flock Transparency Data
- Tompkins County Sheriff Flock Transparency Data
- Gun Involved Violence Elimination Initiative (NYS Gov)
- MONTHLY GIVE SHOOTING ACTIVITY REPORT 2025-Oct-16 (NYS Gov PDF)
- United States v. Jones (2012) (Wikipedia) (landmark US Supreme Court case in which the court held that installing a GPS tracking device on a vehicle and monitoring the vehicle’s movements constitutes a search under the Fourth Amendment)
Calls to Action
Editorial Content about FlockSafety
- The Creepy Cameras on Every Corner (Youtube)
- Flock Wants to Partner With Consumer Dashcam Company That Takes ‘Trillions of Images’ a Month (404 Media)
- Ring cameras are about to get increasingly chummy with law enforcement (ArsTechnica)
- Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police (TechCrunch)
- ICE, Secret Service, Navy All Had Access to Flock’s Nationwide Network of Cameras
- By Enabling Police Surveillance, Elected Officials Fuel Trump’s Agenda (Truthout)
- The 40,000 AI Cameras Tracking You (Youtube)
- Backstory: Another year of Flock AI police cameras / Common Council compensation
- The Mystery of AI Gunshot-Detection Accuracy Is Finally Unraveling (Wired)
- I drove 300 miles in rural Virginia, then asked police to send me their public surveillance footage of my car. Here’s what I learned. (Cardinal News)
- Flock’s Gunshot Detection Microphones Will Start Listening for Human Voices (EFF)
- Federal Lawsuit Challenges Virginia City’s Use of Over 170 Cameras to Conduct Prolonged, Warrantless Surveillance of Entire Driving Population (Institute of Justice)
- Kansas police chief used Flock license plate cameras 164 times to track ex-girlfriend
- Community Control Over Police Surveillance (ACLU)
Regarding government surveillance broadly
- Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her ‘Safety.’ Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime (404 Media)
- Trump’s ICE Has Started Targeting Activists, Not Just Immigrants (Truthout)
- I had to flee the US – as a foreign, Black, pro-Palestinian activist, I tick every box on Ice’s list (The Guardian)
- This Company Built a Private Surveillance Network. We Tracked Someone With It
- Privacy Harm Is Harm (EFF) - Regarding the DRN / ALPR datasets
- ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day (404 Media)
- Google Secretly Handed ICE Data About Pro-Palestine Student Activist (The Intercept)