WORKING CLASS UNITY · STOCKTON
Remove Mass Surveillance from Stockton
Flock cameras turn passing vehicles into searchable records of everyday travel. Stockton’s City Council is expanding that surveillance with public money. Working people should control the institutions and budgets that shape our lives, not pay for more police power over us.
Stockton City Council Voted for Mass Surveillance
Every councilmember voted to expand Flock. Here is what they approved.
7–0
All seven voted yes
Christina Fugazi
Mayor
Voted yes
Michele Padilla
District 1
Voted yes
Mariela Ponce
District 2
Voted yes
Michael Blower
District 3
Voted yes
Mario Enríquez
District 4
Voted yes
Brando Villapudua
District 5
Voted yes
Jason Lee
District 6
Voted yes
- Extended the contract
- April 14, 2031
- City Council authorized Flock services through April 14, 2031.
- Raised the spending cap
- $5,416,700
- The additional $3.15 million brings the combined contract cap to $5,416,700.
- Expanded the network
- More surveillance tools
- The amendment adds six drones and docks, two radar units, a mobile camera trailer, and new search tools with an allocation for ten video streams.
Stockton bought a mass surveillance network, not just license plate readers
A plate reader captures a vehicle at one place and time. Connected software lets police search those records alongside other information.
Cameras collect information
Earlier approvals
Plate-reader records
License plates, vehicle details, time, and location.
March 2026 expansion
Connected video
Video from enabled cameras and the mobile camera trailer.
March 2026 expansion
Drones and 911
Drone video and emergency-call information.
Networks connect sources
Flock’s connected platform
Police search across them
Vehicle searches, alerts, and plain-language searches of plate images and enabled video.
Why removal, not reform
We pay. Police gain power.
Working people fund the contract. Police gain more capacity to watch and search. A private company receives recurring revenue. Paying for the system does not give us control over how it is used.
Everyday travel becomes data
A vehicle does not have to be linked to a crime to be recorded. Everyday trips can become searchable data.
The risk is unequal
The consequences are not equal. People already exposed to heavy policing, immigration enforcement, or abuse have more to lose when travel records are exposed or misused.
Access rules do not end mass collection
An immigration-enforcement ban and strict access rules can reduce harm during the fight for removal. They do not replace the demand to remove Flock and prevent a replacement surveillance system.
Read the full case for removalOur idea of public safety
Build the things that keep us safe
Violence and insecurity are real. A private surveillance subscription cannot give us a stable home, safe work, or care when we need it. Public money should build those foundations, with working people deciding what gets funded and how it is run.
Stable homes
Stable housing, repairs, and tenant protections from displacement.
Safe work and public space
Safe workplaces, reliable transit, lighting, and maintained public spaces.
Care and prevention
Youth programs, crisis care, violence prevention, and support for survivors.
What we demand
What the Flock Removal Resolution Must Do
By signing, I urge the Stockton City Council to pass a Flock Removal Resolution that ends this surveillance system, prevents it from returning under another name, and restores meaningful public control over how surveillance technology is funded and used.
The resolution should:
- Terminate or decline to renew every Flock contract at the earliest lawful date, and prohibit automatic renewal.
- Immediately stop new Flock purchases, tools, integrations, data-sharing arrangements, deployments, and expansions.
- Require deletion, to the fullest extent permitted by law, of all Flock-collected vehicle, image, video, and location data held by the city, Flock, or authorized third parties. Any data that cannot legally be deleted should be publicly identified, along with the reason it must be retained and the date it will be destroyed.
- Publish a complete inventory and public closeout record. This should include all Flock equipment, contracts, integrations, data-sharing relationships, and access permissions; an audit of who accessed or received Stockton data and for what stated purpose; a dated deactivation and removal schedule; and a final closeout report confirming that the system has been dismantled.
- Prohibit Stockton from recreating the same mass-tracking system under another name. City funds, grants, contracts, purchasing authority, or staff resources should not be used to acquire, operate, renew, or expand Flock or any substantially similar system that routinely records and makes searchable the movements of people who are not suspected of wrongdoing. This applies regardless of vendor, brand, or funding source.
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