We, the undersigned residents and neighbors of Graham County, are concerned about the Flock Safety surveillance cameras operating on our roads. These cameras log every vehicle that passes and feed a national network that thousands of outside agencies can search.

Across Arizona, that same network has been misused. One Phoenix-area department ran more than 12,000 searches. An officer in Glendale logged an ethnic slur as a search reason. Agencies used the network to run searches tied to public protests. This is not a hypothetical risk. It is a documented pattern on the exact system our cameras feed.

We are not asking our police to stop solving crimes. We are asking our local government to be transparent about a powerful tool bought in our name.

We call on the City of Safford and the Graham County Board of Supervisors to:

1. Release the Flock network audit, the full log of every outside agency that has searched our cameras' data, with the stated reason for each search.

2. Disable federal and out-of-state data sharing by default, so our local data is not silently fed into ICE or other federal systems.

3. Hold a public hearing before any Flock contract is renewed, with the audit results presented to residents first.

4. Adopt a written ALPR use policy with real penalties for misuse.

Show us who is watching. That is not too much to ask in a free country.