Verified developments in government surveillance: ALPRs, facial recognition, drones, location data, agency data sharing, litigation, legislation, procurement, and documented misuse. Every item carries its sourcing tier.https://unsurveilled.org/en-usOriginal content licensed CC BY 4.0https://unsurveilled.org/signal/deflock-national-week-of-action/https://unsurveilled.org/signal/deflock-national-week-of-action/[MULTIPLE SOURCES] More than 400 events in nearly every state, organised by DeFlock. Council meetings, records requests, information sessions. The organisers say plainly what it is not.Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTSignalCivic campaignnationalcampaignweek-of-actiontake-actionhttps://unsurveilled.org/signal/aclu-get-the-flock-out-campaign/https://unsurveilled.org/signal/aclu-get-the-flock-out-campaign/[MULTIPLE SOURCES] Get the Flock Out coordinates state affiliates, model legislation, and litigation. It also publishes figures — and one of them is testable against our own map.Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTSignalCivic campaignnationalcampaignmodel-policymethodologyhttps://unsurveilled.org/signal/apache-junction-flock-pole-arrest/https://unsurveilled.org/signal/apache-junction-flock-pole-arrest/[REPORTED] A Pinal County resident said he used his work truck to bend a license-plate reader pole so the camera pointed at the sky. He was arrested and faces a felony criminal-damage charge — in a state where two agencies have just walked away from their ALPR contracts.Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTSignalPublic backlashArizonaarizonabacklashcriminal-casehttps://unsurveilled.org/signal/binghamton-council-asks-mayor-to-end-flock/https://unsurveilled.org/signal/binghamton-council-asks-mayor-to-end-flock/[REPORTED] A resolution is not a cancellation. In Binghamton the authority sits with the mayor, the mayor has said no, and one of the contracts renews automatically this month.Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTSignalPublic backlashNew Yorknew-yorkprocurementcouncil-actionauto-renewalhttps://unsurveilled.org/signal/chandler-ends-flock-after-audit-anomaly/https://unsurveilled.org/signal/chandler-ends-flock-after-audit-anomaly/[OFFICIAL AGENCY] Three years of routine audits found nothing. The fourth found something. The largest Arizona city running Flock Safety cameras responded by revoking every officer's access and ending the program outright.Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTSignalCancellationArizonaarizonaeast-valleyauditwinshttps://unsurveilled.org/signal/flock-cuts-default-retention-to-seven-days/https://unsurveilled.org/signal/flock-cuts-default-retention-to-seven-days/[PRIMARY DOCUMENT] The largest ALPR vendor in American policing announced real, substantial limits on its own product. It also left the one question this campaign is about exactly where it was.Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTSignalVendor policynationalretentionwarrant-requiredvendor-changehttps://unsurveilled.org/signal/fusion-centers-monitored-anti-alpr-activists/https://unsurveilled.org/signal/fusion-centers-monitored-anti-alpr-activists/[REPORTED] Public-records reporting shows state and regional fusion centers monitoring publicly visible anti-Flock activity online and distributing intelligence products to law enforcement. Some material concerned vandalism. Other material tracked lawful organizing.Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTSignalIntelligence monitoringfirst-amendmentfusion-centersintelligence-sharingnationalhttps://unsurveilled.org/signal/norfolk-alpr-appeal-fourth-circuit/https://unsurveilled.org/signal/norfolk-alpr-appeal-fourth-circuit/[COURT DOCUMENTED] A district judge held that Norfolk's camera grid does not track the whole of a person's movements. Two residents whose cars were captured 475 and 325 times in four months have appealed.Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTSignalLawsuitVirginiavirginiacourtsfourth-amendmentlitigationhttps://unsurveilled.org/signal/minnesota-communities-leave-flock/https://unsurveilled.org/signal/minnesota-communities-leave-flock/[REPORTED] Minnesota's largest Flock cancellation to date is also the clearest reminder that ending a vendor contract and ending automated plate reading are not the same decision.Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTSignalCancellationMinnesotaminnesotacancellationvendor-changewinshttps://unsurveilled.org/signal/pinal-county-declines-flock-renewal/https://unsurveilled.org/signal/pinal-county-declines-flock-renewal/[REPORTED] Roughly 45 cameras, about half of them in San Tan Valley — a town that incorporated five weeks earlier and now gets to decide its own surveillance policy before a contract exists to defend.Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTSignalCancellationArizonaarizonafourth-amendmentwinssan-tan-valleyhttps://unsurveilled.org/signal/renton-covers-its-flock-cameras/https://unsurveilled.org/signal/renton-covers-its-flock-cameras/[REPORTED] The cameras had already been switched off for three months. The council covered them anyway — which tells you what a switch is worth once a city has stopped believing the dashboard.Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTSignalPolicy restrictionWashingtonwashingtonrestrictiontrustsharing-defaultshttps://unsurveilled.org/signal/twin-cities-alpr-data-searched-for-immigration/https://unsurveilled.org/signal/twin-cities-alpr-data-searched-for-immigration/[REPORTED] Eight Minnesota suburbs left their camera networks open. During a federal operation last winter, agencies from inside and outside the state searched that data for civil immigration purposes.Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTSignalData sharingMinnesotaminnesotaimmigrationdata-sharingsharing-defaultshttps://unsurveilled.org/signal/scotus-chatrie-location-data-warrant/https://unsurveilled.org/signal/scotus-chatrie-location-data-warrant/[COURT DOCUMENTED] Chatrie v. United States is the most important Fourth Amendment decision in eight years. It is also not the ALPR ruling some coverage is treating it as, and the difference matters if you are about to quote it to a city council.Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTSignalCourt rulingnationalfourth-amendmentcourtswarrant-requiredhttps://unsurveilled.org/signal/washington-alpr-law-takes-effect/https://unsurveilled.org/signal/washington-alpr-law-takes-effect/[PRIMARY DOCUMENT] Twenty-one day deletion, a bar on federal and out-of-state access to publicly owned camera data, prohibited locations, and a private right to sue. It took effect the day it was signed.Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTSignalLegislationWashingtonwashingtonlegislationretentionimmigrationmodel-policyhttps://unsurveilled.org/research/chandler-ends-alpr-program/https://unsurveilled.org/research/chandler-ends-alpr-program/Arizona's largest city to end a Flock partnership did it after its own audit found unexplained use. The details matter more than the headline — especially the 88-to-1 search ratio buried in the reporting.Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:00:00 GMTResearchalprarizonaeast-valleychandleroversighthttps://unsurveilled.org/research/thirty-identified-alpr-abuse-cases/https://unsurveilled.org/research/thirty-identified-alpr-abuse-cases/The Institute for Justice has identified 30 reported incidents in which law-enforcement personnel allegedly used license-plate-reader systems to stalk romantic interests — a list its reviewers describe as almost certainly an undercount.Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMTResearchalprcase-trackingnationalhttps://unsurveilled.org/research/unsurveilled-is-live/https://unsurveilled.org/research/unsurveilled-is-live/A nonpartisan civil-liberties project opposing warrantless government surveillance of people suspected of no crime — starting in Arizona's East Valley.Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:00:00 GMTResearchannouncementsarizonaeast-valley