To the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners, Los Angeles Police Department, LA City Council, and Mayor Karen Bass,

I am deeply concerned and reject the Los Angeles Police Department’s use of the Flock “Safety” ALPR system to surveil and stalk Angelenos.

Flock does not just capture license plate data. Flock is a company that specializes in Automatic License Plate Readers (ALPRs) and other surveillance technology. Flock’s ALPRs capture people's movement, location, date, time, images of drivers and passengers, dog walkers, and more. Flock is an extension of the mass surveillance state, a technology that accelerates the mass deportation pipeline, criminalizes all Angelenos across the city including Black folks, immigrants, trans folks, youth, abortion seekers, sex workers and more. Flock weaponizes our movement data to expand the presumption of guilt. 

I know Flock is one of the many enablers of the state’s ability to monitor and criminalize marginalized communities. Automatic License Plate Readers cannot be reformed with better privacy policies or data-sharing guardrails. They have to be abolished.  

ALPR cameras and surveillance technology do not keep us safe. Angelenos need investment in housing and services that meet our basic needs, not more surveillance technology that police and criminalize us. 

• I demand that the Board of Police Commissioners instruct LAPD to terminate all partnerships with Flock with immediate effect.
• I demand that the Los Angeles Police Department terminate all partnerships with Flock “Safety.”
• I demand that LAPD, the Board of Police Commission, City Council, and the Mayor do not enter into any new partnerships with other ALPR companies (Axon, Vigilant Solutions).

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