Flock Safety is a private, billionaire-owned surveillance company whose camera systems have raised serious concerns about security, misuse, and civil liberties. These systems have proven as easy to hack and vulnerable to unaccountable abuse by authorities. They are also a violation of our 4th amendment right to unlawful search and seizure. Once this data is captured and aggregated by Flock Safety, it can be misused, sold, abused, weaponized, leaked or stolen, regardless of promises and guarantees made by its executives and its sales representatives.

Flock Safety makes our community less safe, not more.

We are demanding:

1. The city ends all current and future partnerships with Flock Safety. This includes: 
   • Decommissioning/removal of all 12 Flock Falcon ALPR cameras currently installed on every main road in or out of town and on the Woodstock square.
   • Cancelling the newly signed contract for the 6 ai-controlled Flock Condor point-tilt-zoom cameras to be installed around Woodstock square. If this is within 120 days of installation the city will incur no cancellation fee. The $64,800 of taxpayer savings from cancelling the contract can instead be re-invested in real community safety programs including housing, mental healthcare, drug treatment and suicide prevention programs.
2. If the city insists on surveilling our safe and welcoming town square, we demand the city find a closed-circuit option from a reputable vendor after proper due diligence and community input. We know these options exist and are viable, as they are already deployed at the Woodstock train station watching over Benton and Main Streets.

Since 2025, at least 23 communities have rejected, cancelled or terminated contracts with Flock Safety, including Oak Park, IL and Evanston, IL. Woodstock, Illinois should join that list and be a example for other municipalities in the region to be a city that truly cares about the safety, security and constitutional rights of their citizens and visitors.