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.

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Edit below on 6/2/2026 since I cannot respond directly to comments: 

In addition to the 120-day opt-out, another concession agreed upon by Mayor Turner is supposed to opt us out of any facial recognition (you can find the signed contract on our resources page: https://www.stopflockinwoodstock.org/p/resources

However:

1. Flock could force an update on us and require we sign an updated agreement. They will already have us locked into their equipment and their solution will probably be less expensive than transitioning to a new vendor with new equipment. I do not know if the city will need to present any changes to the contract to the public and I am not a lawyer giving lawyerly advice.
2. The combination of ALPR and PTZ video data of your person is enough to identify you:
   1.  The 12-camera Flock Falcon ALPR camera system tags every vehicle entering and exiting the city. In addition to your license plate number (tied to your registration), these cameras also record your Vehicle Fingerprint™ which includes: make, model, vehicle condition, bumper stickers, accessories, damage, aftermarket wheels, etc. "Vehicles" includes cars, trucks, semis, busses, trailers, golf carts and bicycles. (source)
   2. Flock Condor cameras can tie your Vehicle Fingerprint™ to your person when you exit your vehicle. The profile of your person may include: clothing, height, weight, race, gender, gait analysis. Flock marketing materials touts one search for LPR and video data. (source​, source)
   3. The 6-camera Flock Condor ai-controlled point-tilt-zoom camera system on the square can track your movements anywhere throughout the square.