About Us
Why This Matters
Woodland recently extended its contract with Flock Safety, a surveillance company that operates automated license plate reader (ALPR) cameras throughout our city. These cameras photograph every vehicle that passes, logging license plates, vehicle characteristics, and location data into a massive, searchable database.
Woodland residents have a right to know who is accessing data about their movements, under what legal authority, and with what accountability. The current Flock contract fails on all three. Woodland PD has failed to follow their own ALPR policies.
But we are opposed to surveillance systems that:
- Violate California law
- Expose residents’ data to hackers and criminals
- Enable federal immigration enforcement in sanctuary jurisdictions
- Were installed without adequate public input or oversight
What We’re Asking For
Our goal is simple: Cancel Woodland’s contract with Flock Safety.
Our goal is to cancel Woodland’s contract with Flock Safety, a company that has demonstrated a documented pattern of:
- Enabling illegal federal access to California data
- Failing to secure residents’ private information
- Repeatedly making false claims about their systems’ compliance
- Operating without adequate transparency or oversight
Whatever comes next, Woodland residents deserve full public deliberation, not decisions made without community input.
Who We Are
We are Woodland residents comprised of parents, small business owners, community members, all who believe in transparent government and following California law.
We’re concerned about:
- Legal compliance: California’s Senate Bill 34 clearly prohibits sharing ALPR data with federal agencies. Flock has violated this law repeatedly across California.
- Immigration enforcement: For Woodland’s immigrant families, illegal ICE access to location data undermines California’s sanctuary state protections and creates fear in our community.
- Data security: With stolen passwords being sold on the dark web, every Woodland resident who drives is vulnerable to stalking, harassment, and identity theft.
- Government accountability: A major surveillance contract was extended without adequate City Council or public review. That’s not how local government should work.
This isn’t about politics. It’s about protecting Woodland families and following state law.
What We Support
✓ We support transparency: Woodland residents deserve to know exactly who is accessing data about their movements, and why.
✓ We support legal compliance: Surveillance systems must comply with California law. Flock (and many others) has repeatedly violated it.
✓ We support community oversight: Any surveillance contracts affecting all residents deserve public deliberation before approval, not after.
✓ We support data security: Residents’ location information should not be vulnerable to hackers, criminals, or unauthorized federal access, out-of-state, corporations, and international. Woodland PD with Flock has failed each of those.
✓ We support immigrant communities: California’s sanctuary protections exist for a reason. Surveillance systems that enable federal immigration enforcement in violation of state law undermine the safety of Woodland’s families.