§03Resistance — The Kill List

30+ contracts. Cancelled.

Between mid-2024 and April 2026, more than thirty cities terminated, paused, or refused to renew their Flock contracts. Most votes followed FOIA-driven audits and 200-person rallies. None followed a change in Flock's marketing.

Live tally — 28 jurisdictions

01
Austin/ TX
Jun 2025First major city to cancel — 30+ community groups organized.
02
Oak Park/ IL
Aug 2025Sanctuary-city ordinance concerns after immigration revelations.
03
Evanston/ IL
Aug 2025Cease-and-desist Sept; Flock reinstalled cameras secretly. Final removal Mar 2026.
04
Sedona/ AZ
Aug 2025'It was like we were building our own prisons.' — Sandy Boyce
05
Paradise Valley/ AZ
Sep 2025Cancelled after community pushback.
06
Cambridge/ MA
Late 2025Terminated 'for cause' after Flock installed 2 unauthorized cameras.
07
Hays County/ TX
Oct 2025Terminated.
08
Hillsborough/ NC
Oct 2025Terminated.
09
Eugene/ OR
Dec 2025Eyes Off Eugene campaign — Flock had reactivated a decommissioned camera.
10
Springfield/ OR
Dec 2025Terminated alongside Eugene.
11
Talent/ OR
Dec 2025Paused over sanctuary-law concerns.
12
Flagstaff/ AZ
Dec 2025Unanimous council termination after month-long resident pushback.
13
Charlottesville/ VA
Dec 202510-camera pilot not renewed.
14
Staunton/ VA
Dec 2025'Doesn't reflect the city's values.'
15
Olympia/ WA
Dec 202515 cameras uninstalled after a 200-resident rally.
16
Redmond/ WA
Nov 2025Deactivated after the Andrews wrongful-arrest case.
17
Mountlake Terrace/ WA
Nov 2025Unanimously cancelled.
18
Bend/ OR
Jan 2026Cameras removed over federal-compliance concerns.
19
Santa Cruz/ CA
Jan 2026Terminated.
20
Mountain View/ CA
Feb 2026Audit found ATF, Air Force, and GSA Inspector General accessed data without authorization.
21
Oxnard/ CA
Feb 2026'Vendor-based issue' enabled nationwide query despite 'California only' setting.
22
Dunwoody/ GA
Feb 2026Paused after a Flock VP ran 'unicycle' / 'rocket car' test searches on the live system.
23
Denver/ CO
Feb 2026Replaced Flock with Axon — Denver data was searched 1,400+ times by ICE/proxies.
24
Seattle/ WA
Early 2026Expansion frozen, 400 ALPRs shut down. Mayor ordered NYU audit.
25
Scarsdale/ NY
—Contract killed with help from the Institute for Justice.
26
Verona/ WI
—Triggered Dane County Board to end its contract.
27
Los Altos/ CA
—Shut down after 1M+ out-of-state searches.
28
Richmond/ CA
—Terminated.

Unauthorized installs

Cambridge, Eugene, Evanston, Fort Worth, South Carolina — Flock's field teams kept moving ahead of permits and disclosures. Cities became witnesses against the company.

Vendor-based 'issues'

Oxnard's audit found a 'vendor-based issue' enabled nationwide queries despite a 'California only' setting. Mountain View found ATF, Air Force, and GSA had quietly accessed data.

Settings nobody knew were on

The default federal-sharing toggles were on. Most cities discovered them only when external auditors and journalists told them — never from Flock.

The Coalition

The infrastructure
that broke the narrative.

No single ruling did this. A nine-organization coalition of plaintiff-side litigators, civil-liberties lawyers, investigative journalists, and citizen mappers shifted the public record in twelve months.

EFF

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Electronic Frontier Foundation

National investigations + co-counsel in San Jose. Authors of the 12-million-search analysis, the Johnson County abortion exposé, and Atlas of Surveillance.

eff.org

IJ — Plate Privacy Project

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Institute for Justice

Filed Schmidt v. Norfolk and Tan v. San Jose. Persuaded Greers Ferry, AR and Scarsdale, NY to retreat.

plateprivacy.com

ACLU

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ACLU (national + affiliates)

Most active affiliates: Massachusetts, Iowa, Wisconsin, Washington, Colorado, Oregon, Northern California. Authors of the Pump-the-Brakes municipal playbook.

aclu.org

404

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404 Media

The most consequential newsroom on Flock. Broke the abortion search, ICE pipeline, Nova leak, Condor camera exposure, and credentials-for-sale stories.

404media.co

DeFlock

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DeFlock.me

Crowdsourced 76,000+ camera locations. Founded by Will Freeman, who survived Flock's trademark cease-and-desist with EFF representation.

deflock.me

HIBF

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HaveIBeenFlocked.com

The de facto public archive of Flock audit logs — 2.3M+ plates and tens of millions of searches indexed from public records releases.

haveibeenflocked.com

UWCHR

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UW Center for Human Rights

Authors of 'Leaving the Door Wide Open,' the academic report that exposed CBP's secret pilots into 10 Washington PDs.

jsis.washington.edu/humanrights

FFTF

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Fight for the Future

Organized the rally at Flock HQ in Atlanta. Co-host of the 'Get the Flock Out of Our City' livestream.

fightforthefuture.org

S.T.O.P.

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Surveillance Tech Oversight Project

Published 'Selling Surveillance' debunking Flock's San Marino crime-reduction claims.

stopspying.org

"It was like we were building our own prisons."

— Sandy Boyce, Sedona AZ resident, Aug 2025