Flock ALPR cameras

Bluegrass DSA co-chair delivered a seven-point demand to cancel the Flock contract, delete data, and regulate ALPRs, citing abuses nationwide and reported data transfers to ICE.

A UK politics teacher and congressional candidate urged extending the data center moratorium and ending the Flock contract, citing Harvard research on data center health impacts and the $2 million Flock cost.

A Silicon Valley tech veteran who detailed Flock's new AI search capabilities and asked whether the city did due diligence, validated accuracy claims, or assessed liability before deployment.

Detailed a security researcher's findings that Flock cameras ran unsupported Android software with 22 catalogued vulnerabilities, and cited Denver's decision to cut ties.

Catalogued dozens of cases of officers misusing ALPR data to stalk ex-partners, arguing the council can prevent the harm by removing the tool.

Raised misread rates (37% in one trial), the lack of breakaway poles on camera mounts, and Flock employees' access to private camera feeds.

A First District resident who credited Flock and the real-time intelligence center with dramatically dropping East End violence and letting kids play outside again.

President of the Community Police Academy Alumni Association defended LPD's audited, policy-bound use of ALPRs and its record of solving crimes and finding missing people.

Documented wrongful detentions from misreads nationwide and a 71% false-positive rate on felony alerts in Sacramento; asked the council to send a 30-day cancellation notice.

Compared Lexington's $1.4M contract to Atlanta's 5,000 cameras that failed to improve crime statistics, and contrasted it with ONE Lexington's $200K youth violence budget.

Showed the city's ALPR transparency page contains stale, pre-Flock-only data while 3,788 vehicle thefts have occurred since cameras were installed.

A DSA organizer who noted nearly 100 governments have canceled Flock contracts, urged redirecting funds to community-based crime prevention, and demanded a permanent data center moratorium.

Argued the 'no expectation of privacy in public' claim doesn't justify mass plate collection, and warned about data being sold by a profit-driven private company.

Director of We Watch Lexington, who has pushed a surveillance transparency ordinance for nearly a decade, urged its adoption as a middle ground while stating he wants the cameras gone.

Called Flock an authoritarian tool offering a false sense of security and urged cancellation.

A former political professional who cited the Supreme Court ruling, Shively stalking cases, and fiduciary duty concerns.

Cited a Kentucky officer who searched an ex-girlfriend over 2,000 times across state lines, and urged contract cancellation.

Warned of incremental escalation toward pervasive surveillance, from CCTV to AI to future biometric tracking.

A Mount Sterling resident who detailed the searchable national database, the Flock Alpha drone, the heat-map controversy in Oshkosh, and Kentucky cities that have terminated Flock; demanded suspension and an independent audit.

Vice president of the William Wells Brown Neighborhood Association voiced East End support for more Flock cameras after touring the surveillance center.