Culver City Council is reviewing the Flock camera contract right now. This is our moment — but only if they hear from you.

What's happening

Last week, the LAPD ended its contract with Flock Safety, the company that runs nearly 2,000 license plate surveillance cameras across Los Angeles — and the same company that owns Culver City's. LAPD's own Inspector General found that 1 in 3 of Flock's "stolen vehicle" alerts were false, sending police into high-risk stops of innocent drivers. LAPD's leadership said the department won't use Flock until "data, privacy, security and sharing concerns" are resolved.

In response, Culver City Council has agreed to put our own Flock contract on a future agenda. What happens next depends on how much they hear from residents.

Why Culver City must end this program

Our data was searched for immigration enforcement. Flock's own audit logs — obtained through public records — showed Culver City's license plate data being searched by outside agencies citing "HSI" (part of ICE) and "CBP." That's a direct violation of the commitment the city made when it approved these cameras: that our data would never be used for immigration enforcement. It also violates California law.

Flock covered its tracks instead of fixing the problem. After we brought this evidence to City Council, Flock removed the free-text reason field from its network audit logs — the logs that show a city why outside agencies searched its data, and the field that exposed the ICE-related searches. What's left is a dropdown of Flock's pre-approved categories. If it's happening today, there is no way to find out. Flock didn't fix the problem. They fixed the paper trail.

Flock cannot be trusted. Around the country, Flock has enabled data sharing cities never authorized (Mountain View: ~600,000 unauthorized searches), reinstalled cameras after cities ordered them removed (Cambridge, MA called it a "material breach of trust"), and streamed video from children's facilities to prospective clients as a sales demo (Dunwoody, GA). Flock is being sued in San Francisco for allowing 1.6 million illegal out of state searches. A Flock representative stood before our own City Council in July 2025 and said "Flock will never share your information." Our audit logs had already proven otherwise.

Cities everywhere are getting out. LAPD. Mountain View. Oxnard. South Pasadena. Santa Cruz. Los Altos Hills. Even Amazon walked away from a partnership with Flock. Culver City is now behind its neighbors in protecting residents from a system that has failed everywhere it's been audited.

What we're asking Council to do

1. Terminate the Flock contract.

2. Take down or cover the cameras now, while termination is completed.

What you can do

→ Email City Council. We've written a letter you can send in 30 seconds — add a personal line about why this matters to you.

→ Show up. The Council will take this up at an upcoming meeting (date TBA — sign up and we'll tell you the moment it's scheduled). Public comment matters.

→ Spread the word. Share this page. Most of your neighbors have no idea these cameras exist, let alone what's been done with their data.