Flock cameras

Asked the city to stream meetings on YouTube Live and urged the council to permanently end the Flock camera program, citing a federal Fourth Amendment ruling and misuse cases elsewhere.

Roseville resident urging the council to trust local experts over Flock salespeople and to stay engaged in their community regardless of politics.

40-year resident, 73, calling for a hold on the cameras until state or federal regulation exists, citing a nationwide surveillance network.

Described a denied FOIA for his own Flock data and cited reported Flock breaches and compromised law-enforcement accounts.

Longtime resident urging the council to annul the Flock contract, invoking post-9/11 civil liberties concerns.

Cited the Eastpointe misuse scandal among the 147 'trusted agencies' sharing St. Clair Shores data and called on the council to cancel the contract.

Roseville resident saying communities are getting rid of Flock and urging Michigan to 'take our freedom seriously.'

Libertarian candidate for Attorney General citing the Fourth Amendment and warrantless-search concerns.

Thanked attendees and framed the system as mass warrantless surveillance, promising fuller remarks later in the evening.

Macomb County Libertarian chair and congressional candidate contrasting the founders with authoritarian regimes over surveillance.

Sterling Heights nurse arguing Flock's per-character accuracy math makes misreads dangerously common, citing an Aurora, Colorado gunpoint-stop lawsuit.

Shelby Township former resident noting 116 municipalities canceled Flock contracts in 2026 and citing federal probes.

Third-generation resident citing Flock's own privacy policy, the FBI as contract user, and Peter Thiel/Founders Fund investment ties.

Thanked the council for listening and for the six-month pause, sharing a story about neighbors intervening in an abduction.

Cited Jones and Carpenter Supreme Court cases on data aggregation, urging the council not to call Flock 'just a license plate reader.'

Thanked the council for listening, quoting Eastpointe's mayor on the inability to control other agencies' use of shared data.

Argued ALPR data is mostly harvested for commercial value and warned contracts won't protect data from being sold.

Thanked the council, corrected the camera count (12 in the city, roughly 770 in Macomb County, 142,000 nationwide), and criticized Flock's security.

Out-of-town activist praising Mayor Walby and the council for the bagging directive and citing the Declaration of Independence.

St. Margaret Street resident describing being captured by the Roseville-line camera twice daily and thanking the council.

Thanked the council for listening and raised a gym teacher policy at Lakeview making national news over privacy concerns.

Thanked the council and cited Atlanta's 5,000 cameras taking 20 billion photos a month to illustrate error scale.

Decades-long resident thanking the council and the participating public.

Thanked the council and asked when the bags would go up (answered: by the next afternoon); also asked about bringing his son to the cleanup.

Raised concerns about Wi-Fi and Bluetooth tracking in newer Flock cameras, insecure networks risking officer data, and asked for traffic relief at the Rogers Elementary pickup area on Barton Street.

Asked the council to suspend the city's twelve Flock cameras, provide a full data accounting, write a public ordinance with audits, and revote on the program.

Argued that mass surveillance turns citizens into suspects, citing officer misuse cases and data retention practices that can preserve records indefinitely.

Argued the cameras trample the Fourth Amendment and chill the First Amendment, read Flock's broad data-sharing contract language, and urged a September 21 vote to end the contract.

Compared the system to Orwell's 1984, suggested cameras be placed on council members' homes and made publicly accessible, and said he does not believe the program is right.

Supported police but said tracking law-abiding residents crosses a line; asked who accesses the data, whether crime reduction is measurable, and complained residents weren't properly notified.

Cited Flock's data leaks and missing no-sale contract language, warned bumper-sticker data could reveal political beliefs and habits, and asked the council to reconsider.

Raised privacy concerns for her children, cited Texas and Florida removing Flock cameras as unconstitutional, and asked questions about retention, sharing, errors, cost, and audits.

Asked for a town hall or future meeting to answer questions: a full list of camera locations, who can access data, audit procedures, costs, and whether residents could vote on it by ballot.

Called the cameras a Trojan horse, saying he fears a future where his family's movements are tracked and cataloged without consent or a warrant.

Pointed out that the roughly 50 documented misuse cases likely understate the true number, since only a fraction of misconduct gets caught.

Declared the cameras unconstitutional and said council members who voted for them knowing that should be removed from office.