Live
◢20 BILLION plate scans per month◢80,000+ cameras across 5,000+ communities◢30+ cities cancelled or paused contracts◢$7.5B valuation, mounting class actions◢60+ Condor cameras found livestreaming on the open internet◢1.6 million out-of-state searches of SFPD's database in 7 months◢4,000+ ICE-labeled lookups in a single Illinois town◢164 stalking searches by one Kansas officer tracking his ex◢Washington SB 6002 — strongest ALPR law in the country, signed 2026◢Austin → Cambridge → Mountain View → Denver: cancelled◢20 BILLION plate scans per month◢80,000+ cameras across 5,000+ communities◢30+ cities cancelled or paused contracts◢$7.5B valuation, mounting class actions◢60+ Condor cameras found livestreaming on the open internet◢1.6 million out-of-state searches of SFPD's database in 7 months◢4,000+ ICE-labeled lookups in a single Illinois town◢164 stalking searches by one Kansas officer tracking his ex◢Washington SB 6002 — strongest ALPR law in the country, signed 2026◢Austin → Cambridge → Mountain View → Denver: cancelled
F#CK FLOCK
Public-interest dossier/v.01 — Apr 2026

F#CKFLOCK

Target Acquired
Take Down Madison, SD
44.0061° N · 97.1139° W

How a $7.5 billion surveillance empire became the most-sued, most-cancelled vendor in American policing — and the citizen coalition tearing it down.

Litigation surgeCBP back-doors exposed30+ contracts deadEFF · ACLU · IJ
Read the dossier◢See the cancellations →
80Kcameras

Active Flock cameras nationwide

20Bscans/mo

License plates captured monthly

30+cities

Contracts cancelled or paused

$7.5Bvaluation

Surveillance empire under siege

§00 — The premise that broke

"Trust us"
stopped working.

Flock Safety's pitch was a handshake: install thousands of cameras at speed, tell cities they "own" their data, and let public-safety wins drown out privacy concerns. Between mid-2024 and April 2026, every element of that premise was dismantled in public.

The Johnson County abortion search revealed nationwide default sharing. UW researchers had to tell Washington police chiefs that their own cameras were being queried by Border Patrol. California cities discovered "vendor-based issues" were re-enabling cross-state queries despite their settings. Security researchers found Flock's premium PTZ cameras streaming to Shodan without passwords.

The arc isn't that surveillance has stopped — it hasn't. Denver is moving to Axon. ICE has other vendors. Palantir is entering the same space. What 2025 produced is something more durable: a working coalition of plaintiff-side lawyers, state attorneys general, investigative journalists, and grassroots citizen mappers who can break a $7.5 billion incumbent's narrative within a single news cycle.

▸ The query that ended the trust era

On May 9, 2025, a Texas deputy typed seven words into Flock.

The query swept 6,809 networks and 83,345 cameras — including cameras in states where the action being investigated is legal. The Sheriff called it a "welfare check." The records say otherwise.

▸ Flock search logREC
$ search:"had an abortion, search for female"
6,809 networks / 83,345 cameras / nationwide. Documented by EFF and 404 Media.
▸ source: Johnson County TX Sheriff's Office, May 9 2025
▸ The dossier

Four files. Open them.

§01 / Eight revelations, in evidence◢

The Dossier

From the abortion search to the Russian forum credentials — the proof that 'trust us' was never a system.

§02 / Lawsuits, statutes, AG actions◢

Legal

Schmidt at the Fourth Circuit. Milberg's California class action. Washington's SB 6002. The legal map, fully drawn.

§03 / 30+ cities cancelled◢

Resistance

Austin, Cambridge, Mountain View, Denver, Eugene — and the coalition that put them there.

§04 / What you can do this week◢

Act

Map the cameras near you. FOIA the audit logs. Show up at the next council vote. Six steps that have already worked.