Flock surveillance

Presented FOIA'd emails suggesting KDPS and Flock arranged the contract to stay under the $100,000 threshold, and urged passage of the purchasing policy with option D.

Walked through a timeline arguing the Flock contract renewal violated the purchasing policy's reporting requirements and asked whether the city manager followed it in good faith.

Argued the real question about Flock isn't who owns the data but who can access it, combine it, and what survives after images are deleted — including what machine learning systems learn from it.

A former military police investigator who helped field similar systems warned that Flock's danger is fusion — connecting plate reads with law enforcement and commercial databases to reconstruct people's movements.

Described being misjudged as a autistic teenager and charged with a felony, arguing surveillance networks magnify ordinary human error against innocent people — and asked the commission to end the contracts and remove the cameras.

Lead organizer with We the People Action Fund, calling for Flock's removal, citing ICE use of the technology and election-year voter intimidation concerns.

Lifelong resident calling Flock's installation without public input disgusting, urging the commission to remove it and protect immigrant neighbors and unhoused residents.

Challenged the 'presumed benevolence' of government, citing Flock's CEO rhetoric and data-sharing risks with state and federal agencies.

Edison resident who discovered a camera on her daily commute and argued the cameras serve the wealthy and privileged while harming the vulnerable.

Walked her whole neighborhood asking residents about the cameras after a 21-year-old was killed where a camera had been installed but didn't catch the perpetrator — said cameras make people feel watched, not safe.

Third-generation resident warning that Flock raises Fourth Amendment issues and exposes the city to civil lawsuits.

A young driver-to-be who said she and her friends are scared of being watched as new drivers, especially with ICE concerns.

Apologized for past profanity, then detailed documented Flock misuse in other cities and locally — including ATF immigration searches via Grand Rapids — and criticized unannounced AI drone testing atop public safety headquarters.

Spoke for the Get the Flock Out of Kalamazoo campaign, arguing Flock cameras enable mass surveillance, could be accessed by federal immigration and abortion-enforcement efforts, and should be removed.

Cited news reports of Flock data being accessed by hundreds of state and federal agencies and asked the city to turn off its cameras.

Asked whether the city uses AI cloud-based surveillance cameras and urged the city to take an official position against cooperating with ICE.