Get the Flock Out of Huntington: Say NO to Mass Surveillance
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NO AI-POWERED MASS SURVEILLANCE.
NO FLOCK CAMERAS IN HUNTINGTON.
WHEN: Monday, July 13
6:00-7:30 PM - Rally at City Hall
7:00-7:25 PM - Sign up to speak
7:30- PM - City Council meeting
WHERE: Huntington City Hall, 800 5th Ave.
WHAT: On Monday, July 13, Huntington City Council will vote on Resolutions 2026-R-89 and 2026-R-90, approving contracts to erect 63 Flock cameras across Huntington. Huntington has no ordinance regulating or protecting against mass surveillance, and the resolutions on the City Council agenda on Monday contain no enforceable safeguards against the abuse of Flock data.
We will rally at this City Council meeting and flood public comment with speakers making the following two demands:
1) City Council reject both resolutions outright, blocking the construction of Flock cameras in Huntington, and;
2) City Council create an ordinance protecting our Fourth Amendment privacy rights within the City of Huntington against mass surveillance.
WHO: Flock is a private company operating a nationwide, AI-powered system of mass surveillance cameras designed to track the exact movements of anybody driving past Flock cameras anywhere in the country.
WHY: (Allegedly) Flock has a well-documented history of lying to city governments, their data storage is notoriously easy to hack, hallucinations in their AI models have caused people to face prosecution for crimes they did not commit in locations they did not visit, and the use of Flock data invites extreme abuses by law enforcement officials, from police using Flock data to stalk their exes to ICE agents using the data to commit human trafficking and murder.
The resolutions pending before City Council contain:
- NO LIMIT on how long data is kept.
- NO REPURCUSSIONS for unauthorized access.
- NO WAY to remove cameras once installed.
- NO CONSIDERATION for reports of how easy the cameras are to hack and how frequently the AI hallucinates.
HOW: Members of the public have the right to speak during public comment for three minutes on both resolutions, for a maximum of six minutes total per person. Everybody has the right to speak, regardless of their residency. Please reach out to HCAG or Matthew Lebo if you need help preparing remarks.
We invite anyone interested to also speak for a maximum of five minutes during Good and Welfare, at the end of the Council meeting. During Good and Welfare, you may speak about ANYTHING not on the City Council agenda (so not Flock), allowing us to extend the Council meeting in protest against Council's growing history of dangerous, opaque legislation against the public interest. We will provide materials to read from if you do not have anything prepared to say during Good and Welfare.
NO FLOCK CAMERAS IN HUNTINGTON.
WHEN: Monday, July 13
6:00-7:30 PM - Rally at City Hall
7:00-7:25 PM - Sign up to speak
7:30- PM - City Council meeting
WHERE: Huntington City Hall, 800 5th Ave.
WHAT: On Monday, July 13, Huntington City Council will vote on Resolutions 2026-R-89 and 2026-R-90, approving contracts to erect 63 Flock cameras across Huntington. Huntington has no ordinance regulating or protecting against mass surveillance, and the resolutions on the City Council agenda on Monday contain no enforceable safeguards against the abuse of Flock data.
We will rally at this City Council meeting and flood public comment with speakers making the following two demands:
1) City Council reject both resolutions outright, blocking the construction of Flock cameras in Huntington, and;
2) City Council create an ordinance protecting our Fourth Amendment privacy rights within the City of Huntington against mass surveillance.
WHO: Flock is a private company operating a nationwide, AI-powered system of mass surveillance cameras designed to track the exact movements of anybody driving past Flock cameras anywhere in the country.
WHY: (Allegedly) Flock has a well-documented history of lying to city governments, their data storage is notoriously easy to hack, hallucinations in their AI models have caused people to face prosecution for crimes they did not commit in locations they did not visit, and the use of Flock data invites extreme abuses by law enforcement officials, from police using Flock data to stalk their exes to ICE agents using the data to commit human trafficking and murder.
The resolutions pending before City Council contain:
- NO LIMIT on how long data is kept.
- NO REPURCUSSIONS for unauthorized access.
- NO WAY to remove cameras once installed.
- NO CONSIDERATION for reports of how easy the cameras are to hack and how frequently the AI hallucinates.
HOW: Members of the public have the right to speak during public comment for three minutes on both resolutions, for a maximum of six minutes total per person. Everybody has the right to speak, regardless of their residency. Please reach out to HCAG or Matthew Lebo if you need help preparing remarks.
We invite anyone interested to also speak for a maximum of five minutes during Good and Welfare, at the end of the Council meeting. During Good and Welfare, you may speak about ANYTHING not on the City Council agenda (so not Flock), allowing us to extend the Council meeting in protest against Council's growing history of dangerous, opaque legislation against the public interest. We will provide materials to read from if you do not have anything prepared to say during Good and Welfare.
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Where is it happening?
Huntington City Hall, 800 5th Avenue,Huntington, West Virginia, United States
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