Natick
After deploying Flock cameras as part of a pilot, the Town of Natick’s Select Board unanimously voted to end the trial. Residents objected to being blindsided by the installation and raised privacy and surveillance concerns. Chief of Police James Hicks publicly apologized for not announcing the pilot and took full responsibility for the program’s failures.
While this is another monumental victory where residents were able to defeat the surveillance state, it is important to ensure other ALPR and surveillance technologies are deployed. Working with your representatives to implement a surveillance technology ordinance or similar policy can help prevent use of invasive technology.
Natick Report article about the cancelation of Natick’s contract with Flock.
Additional Resources
Outside resources
Digital Fourth / RT4 – group that was instrumental to Cambridge pausing the contract
Take Action
Join us to promote legislature to ban these unconstitutional platforms. And from a harm reduction standpoint, implement legislature to minimize the scope, amount, and duration during which data is stored.
Spread the word
Meet and discuss with your neighbors to increase awareness.
Adapt your talking points. Don’t start off from a political angle. Identify a reason you think it may concern them – be it concerns of sharing with ICE, constitutional rights violation, the ever expanding power of tech companies over the lives of private citizens, or police spying on their exes.
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