Demand a Public Review and Vote on Flock Cameras in Paducah
The Issue
To the Paducah Board of Commissioners and City of Paducah:
We, the undersigned residents and community members, are asking the City of Paducah to conduct a transparent public review of the city's Flock Safety automated license plate reader program and give the public a meaningful opportunity to decide whether the program should continue.
Paducah currently operates a network of Flock Safety license plate readers. According to the City of Paducah, the network reads more than 80,000 license plates per day, and the city had 21 cameras in operation as of March 2025. In July 2025, the Board of Commissioners approved a contract renewal and expansion that added 11 additional systems.
We recognize that automated license plate readers can be used for legitimate public-safety purposes, including helping officers locate stolen vehicles and wanted persons. We also believe that technology capable of collecting information about the movements of ordinary people deserves meaningful public scrutiny.
Residents should be able to clearly understand what information is collected, how long it is retained, who can access it, under what circumstances it can be searched or shared, and what safeguards exist to prevent misuse.
We are asking the City of Paducah to:
Conduct a public review of the city's Flock Safety program and its current contracts, policies, capabilities, and data practices.
Make relevant contracts, policies, retention rules, and data-sharing arrangements accessible to the public.
Hold a public forum where residents can hear the documented arguments both for and against continuing the program.
Provide Paducah residents with a meaningful public vote on whether the Flock camera program should continue.
Include removal or non-renewal of the Flock system as an available outcome of that public decision.
This petition is not a demand that residents accept one side of the debate without examination. It is a demand that the people of Paducah have a voice in a technology that can record and process information about vehicles moving throughout our community.
Public safety matters. So does transparency. So does privacy.
Paducah deserves a say.
Public Review. Public Vote.
-FlockOff!
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The Issue
To the Paducah Board of Commissioners and City of Paducah:
We, the undersigned residents and community members, are asking the City of Paducah to conduct a transparent public review of the city's Flock Safety automated license plate reader program and give the public a meaningful opportunity to decide whether the program should continue.
Paducah currently operates a network of Flock Safety license plate readers. According to the City of Paducah, the network reads more than 80,000 license plates per day, and the city had 21 cameras in operation as of March 2025. In July 2025, the Board of Commissioners approved a contract renewal and expansion that added 11 additional systems.
We recognize that automated license plate readers can be used for legitimate public-safety purposes, including helping officers locate stolen vehicles and wanted persons. We also believe that technology capable of collecting information about the movements of ordinary people deserves meaningful public scrutiny.
Residents should be able to clearly understand what information is collected, how long it is retained, who can access it, under what circumstances it can be searched or shared, and what safeguards exist to prevent misuse.
We are asking the City of Paducah to:
Conduct a public review of the city's Flock Safety program and its current contracts, policies, capabilities, and data practices.
Make relevant contracts, policies, retention rules, and data-sharing arrangements accessible to the public.
Hold a public forum where residents can hear the documented arguments both for and against continuing the program.
Provide Paducah residents with a meaningful public vote on whether the Flock camera program should continue.
Include removal or non-renewal of the Flock system as an available outcome of that public decision.
This petition is not a demand that residents accept one side of the debate without examination. It is a demand that the people of Paducah have a voice in a technology that can record and process information about vehicles moving throughout our community.
Public safety matters. So does transparency. So does privacy.
Paducah deserves a say.
Public Review. Public Vote.
-FlockOff!
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Petition created on September 20, 2026