Thank you for supporting the petition to end the City’s contract with Flock Safety. We’ve had the opportunity to perform an initial analysis of the documents received from open records requests to the Durango Police Department (DPD). What we found was alarming.
DPD has granted 603 law enforcement agencies (LEAs) across the country access to its Flock Network. We cross-checked that list with the list of LEAs with active 287(g) agreements with ICE according to DHS (available here), and found that there are 60 LEAs with active 287(g) agreements that have access to Durango's Flock Network. The list of those agencies can be found here.
This means that agencies acting on behalf of ICE can use our local video camera system to search for people and vehicles in our community.
Furthermore, we found that DPD (which has a little over 40 patrol officers) conducted 5858 flock searches in the course of a year (over 16 per day). 1450 of those searches appeared to be nationwide, searching more than 20,000 cameras. Because of how much information was redacted from the audit logs we don’t know the search terms that were used, the justifications, or how many searches were associated with a case number.
The Flock system is putting residents of Durango at risk, from both federal agencies and local law enforcement.
Here’s what you can do right now.
Share the Petition
Between online and in-person, we’re over 400 signatures! More people in our community deserve to know about this. Please continue to share the change.org petition digitally.
Contact benjonpeters@pm.me if you’re interested in collecting signatures in paper!
Get Endorsements from Organizations
We’re looking for community groups, organizations, and businesses that would be willing to endorse the effort to remove the Flock cameras from Durango. Are you a part of an organization or know the leadership of an organization that might do so? Let’s get in touch!
Analyze the Durango Flock Audit logs
Although a lot of information was redacted from the network audit logs, a lot of information could be gleaned from searching the records we were able to obtain. All of the files we obtained through CORA requests can be accessed here. Please tell us what you find.
Save the Date for December 2nd at 5:30 pm
Right now, we’re planning to get folks out to the City Council Meeting on December 2nd. More to come.
Thank you for your continued support. Let’s beat this thing.
Ben Peters