Get Flock and all ALPR companies off our streets!

Across Connecticut, towns are quietly wiring themselves with automatic license plate readers (ALPRs), many of them sold by a private company called Flock. These cameras log where we drive and when, then hand that record to police with no warrant and no consent. Some towns now want to link the footage to additional devices capable of phone tracking. This is mass surveillance built town by town, and it falls hardest on the people the state already targets: immigrants, Black and brown communities, women and queer folks, activists and organizers, and anyone who shows up to protest. We are organizing across Connecticut, in solidarity with folks across the country and internationally, to stop it.

Surveillance Off Our Streets (SOS CT) is our statewide campaign to get these cameras out and push back against the normalization of surveillance in our communities. The most important thing you can do is come to our statewide kickoff on Tuesday, July 1st at 7pm at the First Church in Windsor, 75 Palisado Ave. Free onsite parking is available.

If you cannot make it in person, please contact us for a zoom registration link. At this event you can meet with folks around CT who are waging campaigns in West Hartford, New London, New Haven, Norwalk, and Stamford to get ALPRs out of their town and protect the rights of their neighbors. Windsor's Town Council votes in early July on whether to switch the cameras back on, and this event is where we develop the political education and begin to build the turnout needed to stop them. The work we do in Windsor can be echoed in all CT towns to turn the tide on this current expansion of the surveillance system. We want to come together and talk movement strategy and how we can use effective resistance to win victories to protect our rights across CT. Victories here in CT will contribute to the nationwide and international resistance to mass surveillance and attacks on civil liberties.

Contact us here to find out more about how start a campaign in your own town and see what is going on near you.

We stand united against this threat to our civil liberties.

Resources & Learn More:

deflock.me - Find ALPRs by interactive map. Learn more about ALPRs and their risks.

https://gettheflockoutofhere.com/ - resource database including lists of towns that have rejected ALPRs, and ALPR abuses and issues.