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Our Take

When a city council candidate puts "deflock" in the same hashtag line as housing and their own campaign pitch, that's a signal worth noting. We don't know this candidate's full platform or voting record, and we're not in the business of endorsements, but the fact that pushing back on Flock Safety cameras is showing up as a bullet point in local campaign messaging — from the channel "Corry 4 Emeryville" — tells you this issue has moved from niche privacy forums into actual municipal politics.

That matters because city councils are exactly where these fights get decided. Flock contracts get approved or killed at the council level, often with little public debate and even less scrutiny of where the data goes or who can access it. A candidate willing to campaign on rolling back ALPR surveillance means residents in Emeryville may get a real public debate instead of a quiet rubber-stamp renewal.

If you live in or near Emeryville, don't just take a 30-second clip's word for it — check whether your city already has Flock cameras installed, and push your own local officials for transparency. Start with our camera map to see what's already deployed near you, and use our take-action resources to push back before contracts get rubber-stamped at your next council meeting.