Residents of the Upstate are being tracked by an AI powered camera network that law enforcement can search without a warrant. A historical database of innocent people's movements puts them at risk rather than keeping them safe. As taxpayers, we demand to stop funding our own surveillance and seek alternative ways to address crime that do not result in treating the innocent like criminals-to-be. 

Flock's Automated License Plate Readers (ALPR's) indiscriminately capture the plate of every single car that passes by, along with the make, model, dents, different colored door, bike racks, bumper stickers, etc. and store these movements in a database. Officers can then search the system using those descriptors to see when and where a vehicle has been in the last 30 days, no warrant required. EFF.org reported that Spartanburg PD ran dozens of searches with "protest" in the reason field corresponding with the "no kings" rallies in 2025.

Residents have been told that there is no reasonable expectation of privacy in public, that driving is a privilege (not a right), and that our cellphones are "tracking us anyway." However, we do not believe that this entitles the government to have a historical record of our movements any time we travel in our cars. Operation Rolling Thunder on I-85 was discontinued due to thousands of innocent drivers being profiled and subjected to warrantless searches. We urge leadership to continue moving away from that style of dragnet policing which invokes fear and paranoia within the public. 

Regardless of how much trust residents place in their local law enforcement, this is not "our cameras" and "our data" accessed by "our officers." By design, the Flock system is a centralized network, operated by a private corporation with no industry oversight, that enables instant sharing across thousands of agencies. In light of the 51 published cybersecurity vulnerabilities and the reported password sharing with federal agents, our local law enforcement is unable to truly control who accesses our travel data collected by this system, and thus cannot guarantee that it won't be abused. The only safe data is data that isn't collected in the first place.

We urge law enforcement agencies and city/county councils in Greenville and Spartanburg counties to terminate their Flock contracts immediately. Furthermore, we urge you to not seek out alternative vendors for the same AI-powered ALPR technology.