rich 1.0 Action Network https://actionnetwork.org <link href='https://actionnetwork.org/css/style-embed-v3.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' /><script src='https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v6/letter/flock-surveillance-cameras?format=js&source=widget'></script><div id='can-letter-area-flock-surveillance-cameras' style='width: 100%'><!-- this div is the target for our HTML insertion --></div> The Intercept Voices https://actionnetwork.org/groups/the-intercept https://actionnetwork.org//images/generic_facebook.jpg With nearly 100,000 cameras in 49 states, there is a very good chance that Flock has captured your license plate.   The surveillance system collects tens of billions of data points, allowing police to search for specific license plates, vehicle makes and models, and distinctive markings such as bumper stickers. The company has contracts with roughly 40 percent of all law enforcement agencies in the United States. But at least 50 employees of law enforcement agencies nationwide have been put on leave, fired, arrested, and/or convicted of misusing Flock. In Wisconsin, a police officer is accused of using Flock to check whether his ex-girlfriend had gone to an abortion clinic. In Kansas, a police chief searched for his ex-girlfriend’s car 164 times and her new boyfriend's 64 times over a four-month period; he eventually accosted her outside the city limits while she was with another man. And in California, a Riverside County sheriff's deputy used Flock to stalk his former fiancée. We know about these cases only because of public reporting, and in many of them, the officers involved didn’t face criminal charges. It’s impossible to know how many instances have never been reported or even identified. It’s time for state attorneys general to take this threat to civil rights seriously and open investigations to uncover abuse and hold law enforcement officials accountable. Click ‘START WRITING’ to sign and send a message to your attorney general to demand action now. https://actionnetwork.org/letters/flock-surveillance-cameras