Denver residents are extremely concerned by the complete lack of guardrails around surveillance technology. This has been exacerbated by the lack of protections of personal data in our current political environment.

On May 5, Denver City Council unanimously voted to not extend the FLOCK contract after receiving outreach from hundreds of residents and their concerns around data sharing and lack of civil rights protections.  Mayor Mike Johnston has chosen to continue using FLOCK surveillance until December, despite publicly agreeing with our concerns and the contract being expired.  

We would like for all FLOCK cameras to be turned off immediately, a complete audit of search data from Flock Inc to be shared with Denver City Council, and the following guardrails to be put into place, so we do not have another bad faith surveillance contract in Denver: 

1. The Department of Safety provides a full audit of the Flock ALPR searches and shares the result with City Council on a bi-monthly basis
2. There should be community input on all Surveillance Technology, where their needs should be justified and proven for all new and changes to existing technologies.
3. A public task force process (with community members, council, and privacy/surveillance experts) should engage in a public and accessible process to create comprehensive legislation governing the use of surveillance technology in Denver.
4. Existing and future surveillance technology usage should be clearly documented in a public dashboard.
5. How all data is stored and shared should be detailed to the public before contracts are approved by City Council

We need to protect the people of Denver today and pass policies around surveillance technologies. 

Organizational Support Includes: 

• ACLU Colorado
• Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition (CIRC)
• Denver Justice Project
• Denver Justice & Peace Committee
• Denver Immigrant Protection Team 
• Denver Taskforce to Reimagine Policing and Public Safety
• Flamboyán Theatre
• InterReligious Task Force
• Redress Movement
• Transforming Our Communities Alliance (TOCA CO)
• Women Uprising