The ACLU community guide
The ACLU presents arguments and civic options for opposing or limiting automated license-plate surveillance. This is an advocacy source, not a neutral evaluation.
Read the ACLU guideBeing outside
isn’t consent.
We oppose indiscriminate tracking of people’s everyday movements. Public systems deserve public scrutiny: a defined purpose, clear limits and meaningful accountability.
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OUR POSITION / OUR WORDSThe camera is
The camera is
only the beginning.
The questions continue after information is collected: who can search it, what it is used for, how long it stays and who checks for misuse.
Our scrutiny includes license-plate surveillance networks such as Flock Safety. We distinguish our position from factual reporting and link to both independent criticism and the provider’s stated safeguards.
We support lawful civic participation. We do not provide equipment or instructions to obscure license plates or interfere with surveillance infrastructure.
Six questions.
A better conversation.
Choose the questions you have reviewed, then download the brief for your own notes. No account, location entry or submission required.
Selections stay in page memory and reset on reload. These prompts are not legal advice or a formal records request. Local law, procedures and the facts of a deployment matter.
Evidence before certainty.
Flock’s privacy statements
Read the provider’s own description of its data practices. Compare those statements with the contract and policy applicable to the deployment you are examining.
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