Flock AI Cameras Are in Shaker
🧊Flock Has Shared OUR DATA with ICE🧊
It's Time to Shake Off Flock
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Here's what you need to know:
Flock's safety claims don't hold up.
Flock markets their cameras as crime-fighters, but independent research has found that license plate readers are not linked to reductions in violent crime, vehicle theft deterrence, or improved case clearance rates.
Shaker's data is being used for ICE and immigration searches.
Shaker Heights shares its camera data with all Ohio agencies that also contract with Flock — including 13 that hold 287(g) agreements with ICE. Those agreements allow local police to profile, arrest, and detain people on ICE's behalf. An analysis of Shaker's Flock data shows our data is being accessed in Ohio, and across the US. It's time to stop it.
Flock has a documented honesty problem.
Flock Safety has repeatedly misrepresented its data-sharing practices with ICE and Border Patrol. Yet their standard contract — including the one with Shaker Heights — asks us to trust their "good faith" judgment about when to share your data whenever they decide it's "reasonably necessary."
The cameras cost us.
Between 2023 and 2025, Shaker Heights installed 18 Flock Safety license plate reader cameras at city entrances and exits. By the time the contract expires in 2028, taxpayers will have paid $204,550.
Other cities are walking away — Shaker can lead.
Dozens of cities across the U.S. have cancelled their Flock contracts. Shaker Heights can lead Ohio in doing the same — and show what it truly means to be an inclusive, welcoming community. Sign the petition today!
NEW! Read Our May 2026 press release - Records request reveals Shaker’s license plate data accessed hundreds of times to track immigrants
Data reveals that outside agencies ran 273 immigration searches – in three months alone!
Shake Off Flock organizer Dave Thomas: "Shaker's Flock contract gives the company broad authority to use our data however it sees fit. We're asking Shaker Heights to do what dozens of communities have already done -- cancel this contract before more damage is done.”
Read more HERE and sign the petition TODAY!
Cleveland.com coverage: Hundreds of immigration-related searches ran through Shaker Heights’ Flock surveillance camera system
News 5 Cleveland coverage: Shaker Heights changes Flock policy after outside immigration searches
Today in Ohio radio show: Today in Ohio - problems with Flock
Spectrum News: Activists worried Flock camera concerns coming to fruition
It's About Justice radio show: Broadcast May 9 - interview with Meryl Johnson
Give a listen!
We had the chance to join the Red, Wine & Blue podcast to share what we've learned about Flock and how that's moved us to take action.
Listen to the conversation HERE
Read the Full Research Memo
Created by your fellow residents who heard about the cameras and wanted to learn more. We have backgrounds in research, auditing, tech, and advocacy. But most of all, we're your neighbors. A screenshot from the memo is below, but we encourage you to read the whole thing if you can.
"Every local official must ask themselves if they want to be complicit in the rising surveillance state. It’s up to the people to make sure they come up with the right answer. "