You may have noticed small, solar-powered black cameras appearing on poles throughout our town. These are not standard traffic cameras. They are manufactured by a company called Flock Safety, and they are part of a rapidly expanding AI-powered mass surveillance grid that currently includes over 90,000 cameras across the United States.

#### Why We Must Act Now

Flock Safety doesn't just "read" license plates; it uses artificial intelligence to create a "Vehicle Fingerprint." This allows law enforcement to search for you based on vehicle color, make, model, and even unique identifiers like bumper stickers, roof racks, or prominent dents.

With enough cameras, the government can create a "traceable path" of your movements through the city. This gives police what critics call a "God-like power" to monitor an entire population’s motions and analyze the intimate details of our lives.

#### The Hidden Risks

* The "Network Effect": Flock’s business model relies on a subscription service that allows seamless data sharing between 5,000+ law enforcement agencies and private entities like Homeowners Associations (HOAs) and retailers.

* Warrantless Mass Surveillance: Unlike a GPS tracker or a cell phone search—which the Supreme Court has ruled generally require a warrant—ALPRs currently operate in a legal gray area, collecting data on millions of people not suspected of any crime.

* Federal "Back Door" Access: Audits have revealed that federal agencies like ICE and CBP have gained access to local data, even in jurisdictions that explicitly voted against such sharing.

* Threats to Civil Liberties: This technology has already been used to track individuals seeking reproductive healthcare across state lines and to monitor protesters exercising their First Amendment rights.

* Discriminatory Impact: Investigations show that these cameras are often disproportionately placed in communities of color, reinforcing biased policing patterns.

#### We Can Win This Fight

Communities across the country are already winning. In Austin, Evanston, and Eugene, organized grassroots pressure forced city councils to cancel or refuse Flock contracts. We can do the same here.

#### How Your Donation Will Be Used

We are raising funds to:

1. Fund Legal Counsel: To challenge the constitutionality of warrantless historical searches of ALPR databases based on the "Mosaic Theory."

2. Public Awareness & Advocacy: To print educational materials and host town halls to inform neighbors about the "invisible dragnet."

3. Support Policy Reform: To lobby our local government for strict retention limits (deleting data in minutes, not years) and a warrant requirement for all historical searches.

4. Community Mapping: To use crowdsourced tools like DeFlock.me to identify and report the location of every surveillance camera in our district so residents know where they are being watched.

The only way to protect our residents is to stop the collection of this data in the first place.

Please donate today to help us keep our streets free from unwarranted mass surveillance. Privacy is a community value—let's fight for it together.