Flock, with the knowledge of the Agawam Police Department, started installing Flock ALPR (Automated License Plate Reader) cameras in Agawam in March 2026. There is no record of community engagement, or any public announcement of either the contract or the deployment of the surveillance technology.

There is no Agawam Flock “Transparency Portal”. It is not known who the Agawam PD shares Flock data with.

However, Agawam PD appears as a data-shared-with party in the Flock “Transparency Portal” of numerous other police departments in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New York. This includes in Mass.: Norwell, Waltham, and Weymouth. In Conn.: Cheshire, Clinton, Newtown, Putnam, and Windsor. In New York: Cheektowaga, East Hampton, Hamburg, Saratoga Springs. This suggests that Agawam is likely to reciprocate and share Agawam data with other PDs. Note that only a small fraction of Flock customers enable a Flock “Transparency Portal” so the actual set of shared-with parties is likely much larger.

Our problem is not with Agawam PD. Our opposition is to Flock and their invasive surveillance technology. Flock puts intimate data of almost every Agawam resident, business owner, customer, and visitor in the hands of unknown third parties, free to do with it what they please. This is a massive violation of rights to regular, law-abiding residents.

The DeFlock.org map below shows crowdsourced locations of known ALPRs in Agawam. As of this writing, 3 cameras have been mapped, at the intersections of: Bridge Street and River Street, Springfield Street and Suffield Street, and North Westfield Street and North West Street.

The Flock cameras were appended to the end of an existing Mitigation Fund state grant request in 2025. See pdf. The grant was quietly requested by the PD, sponsored by the mayor’s office, approved by the grant commission, and approved by Agawam City Council in September 2025 (see Agawam resolution TR-2025-67). A contract for 6 Flock Falcon cameras was (quietly) signed in September 2025. There was no apparent public knowledge of, or participation in, the grant request process, the approvals by Agawam elected officials, and the camera installations that began in March 2026.

Other communities take note: Agawam’s experience is similar to what has occurred time and time again in some other cities and towns, where Flock cameras are installed without community knowledge or consent, with the quiet involvement and approvals of elected or appointed officials, and paid for by “free” money from a state grant outside of the regular budget process and oversight.

It is not currently known if Agawam has other previous/existing MOUs, agreements, or contracts with Flock.