Hello everyone, I apologize in advance for maybe ruining your evening.

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This is a long one, so here’s the tl;dr:

– The county commission is most likely having an agenda item on Flock on July 14th at 3:00 p.m. Check the agenda on 7/7 to make sure. If you want these cameras out of Leon County, please be there if you can.

– The city commission will receive an agenda item on Flock safeguards/legislation in a future meeting, likely in August. I will make another post when the time comes.

– TPD obtained Flock cameras through underhanded means and have no pubicly available reassurances of safeguards against their misuse. The policies they do have are redacted. I wouldn’t trust them with the more invasive surveillance tools that have just started coming out. “Connect Tallahassee” is just the next step in their surveillance expansion.

– 99.98% of the 108 million license plate reads per year collected by TPD ALPRs were not used for TPD investigations. The massive amount of location data is highly valuable to data brokers and federal agencies and there is little in the way of Flock simply changing their terms and conditions to sell it.

– TPD, LCSO, the RTCC, and other Leon County LE’s have access to enough surveillance tools that, with the help of AI, they will likely be capable of predictive policing in the near future. The only thing preventing this from continuing to be built silently is community pushback against this tech.

– Below and in this google drive pdf, I have provided some supporting information for this claim. Please take the time to learn about these new technologies before your 4th Amendment and 1st Amendment rights are legally violated.

July 14th County Commission Flock Agenda Item:

In May, I made a post on the county report of public surveillance tools. Me and another individual (THANK YOU!) spoke on the Flock cameras to the county comission. The commission voted unanimously to come back with an agenda item on county oversight of these systems. Special thanks to Commissioner Caban and Minor for explicitly addressing privacy concerns. That said, at the June county commission meeting, the county attorney stated that the commission would be coming back with an agenda item specifically on Flock cameras in July.

*** For those of you against or ~~unfortunately~~ in support of these cameras, please mark your calendars for the July 14 county commission meeting at 3:00 pm. *** Be on the lookout for the agenda being posted on 7/7 to read the report and which item it is. The commission will occasionally postpone items so make sure to check before going.

I know the meeting is during typical work hours, but please find a way to be there. At the May county meeting, the primary reason COCA supporters were able to avoid a vote for the organizaitions defunding without much conversation was because 100+ supporters showed up and 50 or so spoke. Nationwide, people have only removed these invasive systems from their town by organizing and showing that the public does not support a third party constantly extracting their location data and selling it to law-enforcement, purchasaed with their own tax dollars.

The address is in the link. Simply go to the 5th floor of the county courthouse downtown. Then, if you are able, get there a few minutes early and sign a speaker card and give it to one of the administrators. I believe you may also be able to speak from an online video call if you can’t make it in person.

If you’re reading this, thanks also to the group of people I conversed with about Flock at Warhorse, Power Mill last night. Hope to see you all there.

What about the CoT Commission?

At the June city commission, I brought up the underhanded acquisition of Flock by TPD and stressed the need for safeguards on the Flock technology. Specifically, I pointed towards city legislation by Austin TX, the TRUST Act, which instituted some extensive, proactive safeguards. Austin cancelled their Flock contract in 2025 due to public pressure and conversations with the city council.

City commissioners Matlow and Porter are very aware of Flock and have asked for a future information agenda item on what legislation and actions other cities are doing re:Flock. I hope to speak with them in the near future. Feel free to send them an email here.

Why Care About Flock?

Since May, I have done way too much digging on this system and have uncovered a lot more on the growing surveillance state that’s in our backyard… Check out the crowd-sourced map of ALPR’s across Tallahassee (Deflock).

Here’s the short version:

If you didn’t know, Flock is an Atlanta-based company manufacturing automated license-plate readers (ALPRs) with the lofty goal of “eliminating all crime“. The most common ALPR is the Falcon, a fixed camera that also has video-surveillance capabilities. It collects picture and video of every vehicle that passes by 24/7 to be used in a historical, searchable database. This is the device people see on black poles next to roadways. Axon and Motorola both have their own versions of the Falcon with generally the same capabilities.

Older model Falcon Camera

A good chunk (30+) of the Flock cameras TPD has were obtained via the school zone speeding camera program (RedSpeed gives 2 Flock cameras per speed zone). TPD, at the prompting of City Comissioner Matlow, admitted in Dec. 2025 that these cameras are only used for investigative purposes. I suspect that DHS and State (FDLE) grants are also supporting the acquisition of these cameras. This is why the city and county commissions basically had no idea that these cameras existed until they saw them along the road like everyone else. TPD didn’t have to get them explicitly approved and kept quiet about obtaining them with the speed zone camera program.

At the Jan. 2026 City Commission Retreat, TPD outlined the number of Flock, Axon, and Vigilant (Motorola) ALPRs currently being used. The number of fixed ones TPD has is 125. TPD reported these cameras read 108 million plates per year (300,000 per day) which supports a searchable database that police can access with only a case number and a one-word reason. Chief Revell states they need a “criminal predicate” to use the system. However, nationwide examples of ALPR abuses by departments with the same policy does not prove convincing that an internal policy will protect people from misuse. Notable examples from those include tracking a woman for obtaining an abortion pill in TX and a Flock employee watching Flock cameras in a children’s gymnastics room for several hours as part of a “sales demo” for indoor, community center use.

TPD states that they used the ALPR databases for 24,000 searches and the cameras assisted in 276 investigations. Doing some basic math, this means 99.98% of the data collected by TPD ALPRs was not used in searches. If we assume that TPD used 10 searches for each investigation (very generous assumption), then 99.9975% of the vehicle location and characteristic data was not used by TPD for investigations. Flock has stated they don’t sell this data to interested parties, but so has every tech company that has said the same thing at some point (Google, Microsoft, Meta, Verizon, etc.). In Feb. 2026, Flock changed their terms and conditions to exclude “We do not sell customer data”. Flock says nationwide that they record 20 billion plates per month. It is naive to think that data brokers, ICE, the FBI, Palantir, Oracle, etc. are not salivating at the prospect of getting access to this information. Why would a for-profit company waste >99% of the data it collects when it is extraordinarily valuable?

If you didn’t know, Oracle was sued in 2022 and paid a $115 million dollar settlement for creating digital profiles on over 5 billion people. Digital profiles are being built by data brokers like LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters and are selling this data to law enforcement without a warrant. The House has already bipartisanly passed a bill, the 4th Amendment is Not For Sale Act, that bans the widespread, warrantless purchase of personal data of Americans by LE. It is unfortunately stuck in Senate Hell.

I’m sure all of you have seen the UK arresting people over social media posts which has already happened in Florida. The UK has already been playing with algorithms that predict criminality based on what data they have of you. TPD and LE across the nation have been adopting data integration tools that give personal and public information on every citizen with the help of one tool, Peregrine. Paired with AI, this, and other systems like it become capable to give “risk-assessments” of behaviors collected about you from different data sources, online and physical. Also FYI, Flock has already implemented some predictive policing systems and will only increase as their system becomes more commonplace.

It is no longer a question whether or not we are on a fast track to predictive policing and precrime as seen in Philip K. Dick’s Minority Report. It is only a question of how soon it will get here, unless people push back against it.

For More Information:

Here is the link to the reference sheet I tailored for the city and county commissions covering the whole ordeal, including some other bits about facial recognition and social media monitoring. Detailed sources are given at the end and some useful links are found throughout. I hope it is useful for you. Please share it if you like.

If you want to ask any questions or reach out to organize against this surveillance tech, feel free to DM or email me at the contact in the pdf.

As I said before: I do not encourage or condone the damage of these surveillance systems as destruction or tampering can be charged as felony criminal mishief (FL Statute 806.13).