#deflock — Public Fediverse posts

Our collective endorses the "Sunshine Over Surveillance" open letter published by Sunshine Labs, which urges Asheville City Council to vote NO on a $1.14M DOJ grant to expand surveillance through the creation of a "real time intelligence center," and the authorization of a separate 7.5-year contract with Axon.

In particular, we agree with the following major objections articulated by the authors:

"Public participation and procurement have been bypassed. Council has heard from only APD and the vendors. The 7.5-year Axon contract has had no committee review and is being authorized through Sourcewell—a cooperative-purchasing exemption that bypasses competitive bidding.

Residents need more information. The proposed Axon contract and the existing Flock contract are both unpublished. APD has refused a public records request for Flock audit logs. One agency on APD's Flock data-sharing list is Florida Fish & Wildlife—reported by @404mediaco to be running thousands of Flock searches on behalf of ICE.

Federal money is not free money. The current administration has explicitly conditioned federal funding on local ICE cooperation and pursued legal action against jurisdictions that limit it. The grant resolution itself acknowledges that compliance terms will be set "at the Federal level"—and reviewed only AFTER acceptance. Separately, Axon held approximately $31.9 million in ICE contracts in 2025.

Civilian oversight has been dismantled. Asheville's Citizens Police Advisory Committee was paused in 2020 and dismantled in 2024. APD points to self-audits—but in San Francisco, SFPD shared Flock data with ICE and out-of-state agencies 1.6 million times in violation of state law, undetected through two consecutive quarterly audits."

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As an abolitionist organization, Firestorm believes that police reform is unrealistic and opposes any investment in policing. Sunshine Labs demonstrates that even non-abolitionists should reject the undemocratic and opaque proposals under consideration by City Council.

#DeFlock #AntiSurveillance #AbolishICE #FeministBookstore

AI turning US street cameras into a mass surveillance state. #artificialintelligence #CountercameraMovement #DeFlock #Flock #Technology #Technosolutionism #TheConversation #USSurveillanceCameras #USSurveillanceState
https://iwpost.com/ai-turning-us-street-cameras-into-a-mass-surveillance-state/?fsp_sid=6303

🐑 "DeFlock" is the latest attempt to captivate our diminished #attention spans with a map of random #sheep #cams. Because who doesn't want to spend their precious life watching grass-munching fluff balls? 🌿📹 Clearly, humanity has peaked.
https://deflock.org/map#map=5/37.125286/-96.284180 #DeFlock #span #internet #culture #sheepwatching #fluffballs #HackerNews #ngated

🐑 "DeFlock" is the latest attempt to captivate our diminished #attention spans with a map of random #sheep #cams. Because who doesn't want to spend their precious life watching grass-munching fluff balls? 🌿📹 Clearly, humanity has peaked.
https://deflock.org/map#map=5/37.125286/-96.284180 #DeFlock #span #internet #culture #sheepwatching #fluffballs #HackerNews #ngated

🐑 "DeFlock" is the latest attempt to captivate our diminished #attention spans with a map of random #sheep #cams. Because who doesn't want to spend their precious life watching grass-munching fluff balls? 🌿📹 Clearly, humanity has peaked.
https://deflock.org/map#map=5/37.125286/-96.284180 #DeFlock #span #internet #culture #sheepwatching #fluffballs #HackerNews #ngated

Hello Mastodon! Deflock Broward here. We use public records to track license plate reader (ALPR) surveillance, then publish sources + plain-English explainers.

Starting with Weston: https://deflockbroward.org/weston

#DeflockBroward #Deflock #WestonFL #Broward #SouthFlorida #Florida #PublicRecords #SunshineLaw #OpenGovernment #Privacy #Surveillance #ALPR #LicensePlateReaders #FlockSafety

@barefootstache @philip

Whelp, I now have wiki pages fleshed out for ALPRs and gunshot detectors on the #osm wiki. Consider these a first stab at writing down / establishing a normalized set of tags and practices for ALPRs and other surveillance tech (like gunshot detectors):

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:surveillance:type%3DALPR

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:surveillance:type%3Dgunshot_detector

I'm honestly not a fan of having discussion live only in Discord --- or any ephemeral IM platform. I like forums --- or at least wiki talk pages --- better :P

#OpenStreetMap #gis #surveillance #Flock #FlockSafety #DeFlock #DeFlockMe #surveying #discord #wiki #documentation

And just the ALPRs with orientation info from deflock.me/map, showing pretty extensive coverage of all the ways into the region via 24 ALPRs, most of which are Flock devices (a few Axis ALPRs are there, too).

#surveillance #alpr #osm #OsmAnd #OpenStreetMap #surveying #gis #flock #FlockSafety #DeFlock #DeFlockMe #FortWorth #dfw #StreetComplete

Aaaand now I've fleshed out the data in the map with proper tags.

Overpass-turbo query here: https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/26uS

#surveillance #alpr #osm #OsmAnd #OpenStreetMap #surveying #gis #flock #FlockSafety #DeFlock #DeFlockMe #FortWorth #dfw #StreetComplete #OverpassTurbo

Ho Lee Crap this region is crawling with surveillance. I mean, I kinda figured. It has a reputation as being a "bad" part of town. But damn. Dozens of Flock shot spotters, and at least a dozen ALPRs. Working on adding details to the map now. Used #StreetComplete for initial survey. Been using it often enough that I might try out adding a flow for Surveillance Things specifically rather than having to tack on notes and go back in via iD to flesh things out.

#surveillance #alpr #osm #OsmAnd #OpenStreetMap #surveying #gis #flock #FlockSafety #DeFlock #DeFlockMe #FortWorth #dfw