DeFlock Tulsa

What Are We Doing and Why?

Flock Safety's system enables warrantless tracking of people nationwide without accountability using Automated License Plate Readers or ALPRs. Despite this company's young age, this system has already been used to stalk, wrongly accuse, and incorrectly arrest people around the country in just a few short years.

Flock's cameras and systems have been demonstrated to have security flaws, vulnerabilities, and misconfigurations. The company sends our surveillance data overseas to be used to train their AI. The ACLU has also reported that Flock's AI will be used to report suspicious location patterns to police. Flock refuses to allow their terms and conditions to be archived by archive.org and changes them surreptitiously. Flock has tried and recently failed to silence a valuable resource in our fight, HaveIBeenFlocked.com, by abusing takedown mechanisms. Without HaveIBeenFlocked, DeFlock Joplin would not have been created. Without DeFlock Joplin, DeFlock Tulsa would not have been created. Without HaveIBeenFlocked, they would not have found and then investigated the abuses of Plate 1 and Plate 2 in their partial audit.

We’re focusing on transparency, public record requests, and community dialogue with local officials. We currently have some transparency through the Tulsa Police Deparment websites. TPD has a "Real Time Information Center" with the "benefit" of "crime prevention." Translation: stopping criminals before they even commit crimes.

Tulsa's cameras are a piece of a massive surveillance network built without our consent or knowledge. Watch this space for sources, events, and organizing information.

Learn more about the issues in our Resources section.