Flock ALPR

Quoted Orwell and accused council members of spreading misinformation on housing, Flock cameras and Measure JJ; urged the council to choose people over profits and transparency over misinformation.

Demanded cancellation of the Flock contract, citing repeated data breaches and risk to vulnerable community members, and promised opponents will keep coming back.

Of SIREN, said the item was pulled undemocratically without notice and asked the council to restore it in two weeks.

Noted Mountain View and Santa Clara canceled their Flock contracts and said surveillance harms well-being without reducing crime.

Said things have changed since December — Flock shared Mountain View data with out-of-state agencies — and urged the city to follow Mountain View, Los Altos Hills, Santa Clara County and Santa Cruz in ending its program.

A business owner said she no longer feels safe meeting clients in East Palo Alto because hacked Flock cameras are allegedly streaming children's playgrounds on the dark web.

A lifelong resident said pushing off the item was ignorant and that the cameras put her undocumented family and friends at risk in the city they call home.

With Silicon Valley DSA, urged cancellation, saying Flock violates law, produces false positives, and exists to profit off resident data.

Co-chair of the ACLU San Mateo County chapter, representing about 4,000 supporters, urged immediate action to halt ALPRs, citing breaches and lawsuits in Menlo Park, Atherton, Mountain View, San Francisco and Oakland.

Former EPA worker who detailed how Flock errors forced Mountain View to violate state law and said ICE has ramped up abductions of San Mateo County residents; urged shortening the contract and not renewing it.

Asked why the item was taken off the agenda, said the community doesn't want Flock, criticized ICE's tactics, and told the council to get to work policing instead.

A repeat speaker who said the community rejected Flock in December, warned of a regime hunting Black and brown people, and directly challenged Mayor Lincoln and Councilmember Dinan, calling Dinan a colonizer.

Accused Councilmember Dinan of ignoring speakers and Mayor Lincoln of laughing and looking at his phone during testimony.

Lifelong resident who questioned whether the council represents people or companies and ICE, and criticized Mayor Lincoln's phone use during comment.

An 18-year-old community member who became emotional discussing fears that cameras could help separate undocumented children from their families.

Long-time resident with undocumented family members who said she is scared and demanded 'ICE-Flock out of East Palo Alto.'

Said opposing the cameras isn't pro-crime, criticized former Mayor Barragan's earlier comments about crime victims, and noted the city's first zero-homicide year was 2023, before the Flock pilot.

Urged ending the contract, argued much of the lawlessness comes from government agencies like ICE, and warned the FBI's broadened domestic-terrorism definitions could target residents via Flock.

Of SIREN, argued no policy can restrain the current federal government, said ALPRs capture audio and images beyond plates, and cited 'side door' data sharing through El Cajon.

Long-time resident opposed to Flock since its 2024 introduction who urged the council to end the contract.

Lifelong teen resident who challenged Flock's claim that partners control data access, cited the Mountain View breach, and worried about AI mistakes and water use.

Asked how the city can be confident data won't be shared when similar policies failed in Menlo Park, Atherton, Mountain View, San Francisco and Oakland, exposing the city to legal liability.

Spoke about civil rights violations, said the mayor's brother told her to 'clean up the city,' and revealed her 88-year-old Spanish-speaking citizen mother is terrified to leave her home.

Said the council came with decisions already made, praised the police department for taking concerns more seriously than the council, and said for this community it is about ICE.

Spoke on the Flock item; audio was largely unintelligible amid disruptions over speaker time limits.

Of Indivisible Palo Alto Plus, thanked PD staff for the AI-training prohibition language but called AI mass surveillance not public safety and urged wholesale rejection of Flock.

Weighed emotion versus facts, said safety from rapists and domestic violence comes first for his family, and recounted that his son's murder in Portland was solved with license plate readers.