Racine's police got permission for Flock Safety Raven, Contract #2022080. Read the file.
The short version: Flock Clocker digs up Racine PD's actual Raven contract, showing why public records—not press releases—are the real way to track ALPR expansion.
Our Take
Credit where it's due: Flock Clocker is doing the unglamorous work that actually matters—pulling procurement paperwork instead of taking a police department's word for it. Contract #2022080 for Racine's Raven system is the kind of document that rarely gets covered by local news, yet it's exactly where the real terms of a surveillance rollout live: pricing, data retention, vendor access, and whatever oversight language (or lack thereof) got slipped in.
This is the pattern we keep seeing nationwide. A city council approves a line item, a chief says it's about stolen cars, and the actual contract sits in a file cabinet until someone requests it. Those files are where you find out if a department agreed to share plate data with ICE-adjacent networks, how long footage is stored, or whether there's any audit requirement at all. Racine residents now have a receipt, and that's more than most communities get.
If you want to see whether your own city has cameras like these watching your commute, check our map for coverage near you, and if you find a contract worth reading, our take-action page has steps for getting it into the open.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Flock Clocker, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.