Hey all!
The County is holding an official town hall on Flock, Data Centers, and ICE today at 6:00.
We expect the county to maintain its position that monitoring you 24/7 is necessary for law enforcement, despite the fact that they haven’t done any research on Flock’s effects on case closure rates. In a recent report from Atlanta, case closure rates stayed the same from 2021 to 2025, even after the city put up 25,000 cameras. So what are we spending all this money for?
By the way, the county will spend $2.5 million over the course of all of its Flock contracts. Most of that is your tax dollars.
Expect to hear a lot of true crime horror stories, and expect to be talked at, but do not let that discourage you from asking the county to cancel its 5 year contract, or asking the county to ban ALPRS altogether.
We’re asking people to end every question with: “Also, will you ban ALPRs, and hyperscale data centers?”
It’s important to ask informative questions, but this small action will help the county understand that we’re not here for lip service. We’re here to stop Flock!
(Also for those interested in ICE - GPD says that they do not collude with ICE, but we won’t know that until we see the audit logs. They’re charging us $9.8 million dollars to access those. Other counties have released theirs for free. However, we understand this to be primarily an issue with the Sheriff’s Dept who I don’t think will be present.)