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Thousands of mass surveillance cameras have been installed in our cities without our informed consent. We are a team of citizens working to halt this threat to our privacy and civil liberties. Our mission is to have an Arizona free of mass surveillance, and to Live Free AZ. Please join us.Three major pieces of legislation are moving right now at the Arizona Legislature. Each one impacts civil liberties, privacy, and who controls enforcement in our state. Your voice matters—today.
HCR 2004 — Stop Photo Enforcement (House). This resolution would let Arizona voters decide whether to ban traffic photo enforcement systems.
Why it matters: Law enforcement should remain with trained officers—not outsourced to private, for-profit companies. This measure protects due process and prevents abuse driven by revenue, not safety.
SCR 1004 — Stop Photo Enforcement (Senate). The Senate companion to HCR 2004, also sending the issue directly to voters.
Why it matters: Same principle, same stakes—voters decide, not vendors. This is about accountability, transparency, and keeping enforcement human.
SB 1111 — License Plate Reader Expansion. This bill authorizes broad use of automatic license plate readers (ALPRs)—while blocking public records access to the data.
Why it matters: Citizens would be unable to FOIA their own location data. Massive surveillance power with minimal transparency is a direct threat to privacy and civil liberties. SB 1088 — Cybersecurity Funding Without Privacy Guardrails. $2.5 million for cybersecurity, including generative AI programs, with no clear protections for private citizen data.
Why it matters: Security matters—but so do boundaries. Funding AI systems without explicit privacy safeguards invites misuse and mission creep.
TAKE ACTION NOW Contact your legislators — calls and emails matter. Use Arizona Request to Speak (RTS) — this is critical for influencing committee votes. Sign in and speak up:
https://www.azleg.gov/group/request-to-speak/ If you don’t show opposition or support on the record, lawmakers assume consent. Liberty requires participation. Speak now.VICTORY IN FLAGSTAFF!
On December 16 the Flagstaff City Council voted unanimously to cancel their Flock contract and deactivate all the cameras. This is a huge win and came from much hard work by the community. The people spoke and the council listened. Let freedom ring!
TRIUMPH IN SEDONA!
On September 9 the Sedona City Council voted unanimously 7-0 to terminate the Flock contract and take down the cameras. Sedona is the first city in Arizona to terminate their contract and remove the surveillance cameras. Our united front of citizens caused an unprecedented shift for freedom!VICTORY CELEBRATION IN SEDONA! We're having a party on January 31 in Sedona! Please fill out the form at the bottom of the page for more information.PRESS

• Arizona Daily Sun on Flagstaff's Success

• NBC News on Sedona's Success

• Solari Report

• Sedona: Get the Flock Out of Town--Red Rock News

• Interview on Jen's Two Cents

TIMELINE OF OUR SUCCESS IN SEDONA, by Sandy BoyceJune 20, 2025 Article in Red Rock News by Tim Perry on the installation of the Flock cameras in Sedona forwarded to me by a friend. I ask him if anyone is working on this, he says noJuly 24 I contact my neighbor, Melissa Dunn, a city councilor, and ask her what the process is to remove these cameras. She says there is a special city council session August 13August 6 OpEd by Mik Jordahl in Red Rock News mentioning the August 13 special session, Tim Perry writes a reminder in sedona.biz. No official announcement by the city of the session, so all information goes through the grapevineAugust 8 I contact Mark Spencer of Judicial Watch, who drives up from Phoenix to have lunch with a group of us before the council meeting. I also contact the Institute for Justice and they provide talking pointsAugust 13 Special session of the Sedona City Council on Flock cameras, 12 residents speak, 10 against, 2 in favor. It turns out the city council didn’t know about the Flock contract, which was signed by the city manager. It was under the dollar amount that requires council approval. City council votes to turn off cameras until further discussion, mayor is the only vote for keeping them on. City manager talks about having a pilot program, working group, and guidelinesAugust 19 I create livefreeaz.com and [email protected]. Mik Jordahl, Laura Masters and I decide to form our own working group to remove the cameras. We pool our contacts on [email protected] and send a notice to everyone about a working group meeting at the public libraryAugust 29 Working group at the library. Shawn Dow of AZ Campaign for Liberty drives up from Phoenix and we realize we only need 4 yes votes out of 7 on the city council to terminate the contract. We decide to distribute postcards saying “We demand the City of Sedona remove all the surveillance cameras and terminate the Flock contract” and hand deliver to city hallAugust 30 I create posters and postcardsAugust 31 We put up posters and tables at the farmers market and Labor Day Rally; we point up at the cameras and ask people to sign our postcards demanding the removal of the camerasSeptember 5 We hand deliver over 200 postcards to city hall, flood council with emails, and meet with council membersSeptember 9 Council votes unanimously 7-0 to terminate contractJanuary 31, 2026 We have a victory celebration in Sedona

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Shawn Dow, AZ Campaign for Liberty
1. These ain’t your grandfather’s license plate readers. Some pro government surveillance cameras will say this technology has been around for decades which is only partially true. The tech to recognize a plate and compare it to a hit list of those who are suspected of crimes has been around but not a centralized, searchable database that tracks and records the movements of EVERY SINGLE DRIVER whether or not they are even suspected of a crime. New integrations of Flock with AI and facial recognition cameras are increasing the concern for privacy and potential abuses.
2. The Camera company has exaggerated or even lied about it’s safety impact and effectiveness. In one city Flock claimed crime had gone down and it actually went up. In Baytown, Texas the clearance rate on stolen vehicles actually went down after installing Flock cameras. More than 97% of stolen vehicles cases are not recovered or cases cleared despite having Flock cameras for years.
3. This is an unconstitutionally broad search casting a wide drag net to scoop up private information such as where you worship, what doctor you are going to, when your 16 year old daughter is home and you are not, which politicians you are meeting with can all be used by those with bad intentions. There are zero state or federal guardrails on how long this data can be kept, who can have access to it and for what reasons.
4. The abuses are real and widespread. Police officers have been arrested or fired for using Flock to stalk citizens like their ex wives. A sheriff used LPR technology to scan the license plates of every vehicle attending his opponent’s fundraiser to build an enemies list. Flock has admitted they have violated state law numerous times including sharing local data with federal authorities and failing to get the required licenses to do business in several states. Flock then lied about not knowing they needed a license.
5. A federal judge in Virgina has determined that there is enough merit to allow a federal civil rights violation lawsuit to proceed against the local government and flock over it being an unlawful 4th amendment search. That case is scheduled to hear arguments soon.
6. Flock refuses to have their equipment independently tested by a third party system to verify their claims and effectiveness even though it is an industry standard and their competitors have.
7. Flock’s own guidelines say that any government thinking of bringing Flock cameras in should have a town hall to get community buy in. All facts related to this system including the potential for abuse and violations of our more basic constitutional rights should be discussed before moving forward.
8. Several cities including Austin and San Marcos, TX have shut down their flock camera programs after showing little evidence they are effective and after massive public outrage over privacy concerns. Cities in other states like Colorado are considering removing them as well.
9. More dangerous that photo radar. At least with photo radar you just get a ticket in the mail so you know when your were scanned and actually accused of breaking the law. With Flock they never disclose how much information they have on your movements, what they do with your private information and who has access to it.
10. Any restrictions such as retention time, access to the data, how flock can use the data are all voluntary and self imposed. They can change at any time. There are no civil or criminal penalties for breaking these rules.
11. Despite Flock’s claim that they cannot use local agency data for other purposes the language in their standard contract grants them an unlimited perpetual license to use the data. If they want to sell your data to marketers who want to know who shops at home depot or sees who visits a urologist so they can advertise ED drugs to them nothing would legally prohibit it and they would not need to disclose it.
12. Mistaken identity has happened and will continue to happen. Flock cameras, like any other cameras can misread plates. In one case when this happened an entire family was taken out of their vehicle at gunpoint because flock identified it as a stolen vehicle.
13. Due to delays in reporting that stolen vehicles have been recovered and cleared from the system, if you report your car stolen because you don’t see it in your driveway but forgot your wife was using it that hit list showing your car as stolen could be active for days or weeks causing you to get pulled over for stealing your own vehicle.
14. We used to point out one of the differences between us and communist countries was that we don’t spy on our citizens. That isn’t the case any more. This technology is being used currently in China to impose social credit scores, identify dissidents, and to help with intellectual property theft.
15. Flock cameras can easily be upgraded to automatic ticket cameras. If there is another covid style lockdown Flock cameras will be used to penalize anyone who decides to leave their house to go to the grocery store or doctor.