What's fun about this is that the continued existence of the LAPD also "undercuts the city's promise as a haven for immigrants, those seeking gender-affirming care and other vulnerable groups."
It's over 40
Discovered because of anti-surveillance activist run haveibeenflocked.com
Flock continues to take hits across the country. Flock is not an anomaly.
We need to place the same level of scrutiny on all vendors and the police and corporations who use these tools.
Surveillance isn't safety.
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Case in point: Denver contracts with Axon after ending their contract with Flock.
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The growing movement to cancel Flock Safety contracts across the country is great. We need to remember that Flock is one of many ALPR vendors and we need to oppose all of them.
If we're not careful, we're going to dismantle Flock only to have Axon or Motorola take their place.
Now unlocked: we speak with Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Craig Gilmore about the rapid escalation of police forces and carceral logics on US streets and why abolition is the only way
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“Meta’s internal memo said the political tumult in the US was good timing for the feature’s release.
‘We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.’”
We can win. The future doesn't have to be a surveillance & AI dystopia. The future will not be fascist. We can abolish DHS, the fusion center network, and all police.
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Today in @thenation.com, originally entitled No Quick Fixes for Fascism
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Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border Harsha Walia, Silky Shah, and Beatrice Adler-Bolton of Death Panel Thursday, February 12 at 7pm ET
Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border
Join @harshawalia.bsky.social, @silkys13.bsky.social, & @reallandsend.bsky.social of @deathpanel.bsky.social for a discussion on the brutal enforcement of immigration policing in Minneapolis and beyond.
Thursday at 7 PM ET
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Knoxville is following a national pattern by switching to Axon from Flock for ALPRs. Axon is selling their product as a solution to the problems of Flock. The problem is that ALPRs and the business of mass data collection & sharing is dangerous, no matter the vendor.
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The Durham City Council decided against signing a contract with Peregrine aka Palantir-lite, a company who sells a predictive policing tool according to the City's own assessment of Peregrine.
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crowd photo from above of the January 2026 Minneapolis General Strike by Lorie Shaull with "TFSR 2-1-26 | Being The Right Best Person: A Conversation with Donna Mae in Minneapolis" Photo: Lorie Shaull/CC
An interview with Donna Mae, a longtime resident of Minneapolis and registered nurse speaking about the community resistance to ICE / CBP in their city, the legacy of the George Floyd Uprising and mutual aid
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Resisting the Surveillance Systems Behind ICE’s Kidnappings with Ed Vogel / MAKC logo; matrix letters dripping down the image; Background photo caption from photographer: "Portland Avenue and 34th Street in South Minneapolis where City of Minneapolis officials have confirmed an ICE agent shot and killed an observer. A neigbhor who saw what happened told local MPR news: "She was trying to turn around, and the ICE agent was in front of her car, and he pulled out a gun and put it right in — like, his midriff was on her bumper — and he reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times,” Credit Chad Davis with link to https://chaddavis.photography/sets/ice-in-minneapolis/
Resisting the Surveillance Systems Behind ICE’s Kidnappings with Ed Vogel of @sassisouth.bsky.social
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As if we needed another example that the courts are not going to protect people. The courts are going to protect the interests of corporations and the state.
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Scoop: Police have recently been ordered to be "as vague as permissible" in the Flock system about the searches they do in a message shared with several major police departments around the country by the FBI. Actively avoiding transparency is now the strategy:
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Worth the time
The reason Nashville is one of the only cities in the entire country that doesn't have license plate readers is because of community members fighting like hell over the past 5ish years to protect our neighbors. No matter how exhausted we are, we will never, ever give up this fight.
It is not enough to abolish ICE. We need to abolish the police and cages and build other institutions and relationships that can bring us genuine safety. Abolition is less an act of demolition than a construction project. It is creative creation, the boundless, boundary-less struggle to make our collective lives better, what Ruth Wilson Gilmore calls “life in rehearsal.”
Robin D.G. Kelley
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The Raleigh Police Department now has Starchase and were able to acquire the technology because "the department received a boost from a donation by the Raleigh Police Department Foundation"
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A private entity building the local surveillance apparatus:
"With nearly a million dollars from a Savannah College of Art and Design grant, the Savannah City Council approved the purchase of drones, emergency phones and cameras at an end-of-the-year meeting."
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Thanks for letting me know. It just loaded for me:
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During this digital workshop, we will explain Webloc and walk through how to change specific settings on our phones in order to limit ICE's ability to access our location history. This session will be in English. Stay tuned for a Spanish session. Please register at tinyurl.com/sassimeltsice
Join SASSI on Wednesday, February 4th at 8pm ET for, "Simple Steps to Melt ICE." This is the latest session in our ongoing community safety series. On January 8th, @404media.co published a story about how ICE is using a tool called Webloc.
This week on January 22nd, the Durham City Council is having a work session focused on the proposed contract with Peregrine, a Palantir-like, predictive policing company, with a vote coming at the February 2nd City Council meeting. Now's the time to make your voice heard!
Call to Action for Durham! The Durham City Council is currently considering building a Real Time Crime Center. This surveillance hub won't make Durham safer, it will only intensify the criminalization of Durham's Black, brown, immigrant, queer, trans, and activist communities, among other folks.
We honor the courage of Manuel Teran, known to fellow forest defenders as Tortuguita, who sacrificed all in defense of Weelaunee Forest three years ago today. 🖤
And we give thanks for those who responded to Tortuguita's murder with a wave of fierce direct action. 🏴
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