TRUST San Diego Coalition

We are inspired, furious, and we will not stop. We showed up in record numbers. 180 in person, more online. Hundreds wrote in too. The overwhelming majority opposed approving SD's ALPR program. Our coalition stood stronger than ever with more than 70 community and labor organizations standing side by side. Even still, we are furious that the City Council majority voted to approve the ALPR use policy and 53 other surveillance techs, continuing the use of Flock. Thanks to @seaneloriverad9 , cd4foster, @vivianmorenosd for opposing ALPR and asking hard questions in public. Here's to the over 70 organizations that stood together calling to remove Flock, restore trust, and so many others who we've reposted and met in this fight.

In December, City Council will decide whether to spend millions of dollars to keep dangerous Flock automated license plate reader (ALPR) technology on our streets. Flock has created an out-of-control data sharing technology. Flock deceived the public. Flock overrode City authorities. Flock leaked San Diego data. FLOCK IS UNGOVERNABLE SHUT IT DOWN City Council’s Public Safety Committee will review the City’s Flock ALPR program and the Privacy Advisory Board’s “cease” recommendation. Write the committee. Tell them why Flock makes your community less safe. Comment on Agenda Item 3 at https://trst.fyi/PS-comm (link in bio) Then comment in person or online. Find the agenda, address, and zoom link at https://trst.fyi/11.12-PS For a screenreader friendly version of the hall of shame and this call to action, link in bio as Flock Hall of Shame.

What is Flock Nova, the service SDPD quietly adopted last December according to Axios? 404 media reports that Flock Nova is a "massive people look up tool" that uses open source intelligence and agency data to find links between people. In materials reviewed by 404, a Flock employee stated "You're going to be able to access data and jump from LPR to person and understand what that context is, link to other people that are related to that person by marriage or through gang affiliation, et cetera...There's very powerful linking." Beryl Lipton of @eff explains "for police, the definition of what is considered 'open source' has really expanded to include information to which no one should have ever had access. Our health data, our financial records, or any of our other digital data is hacked and ends up on the internet." #alpr #flock #sandiego #surveillance

Yesterday, Axios dropped the news that while San Diegans were telling City Council all the reasons they wanted to drop Flock, SDPD quietly signed a contract for Flock Nova without going through the Privacy Advisory Board or public oversight process. Flock Nova is a "platform [that] integrates police departments' investigative data." More startlingly, the "Nova service also gives SDPD access to 'open source intelligence' and data from other law enforcement agencies" according to the SDPD Flock contract. Open source data is data gathered from all over the internet, including data purchased from data brokers. Homayra Yusufi of TRUST SD coalition says that the city stuck to a "technical loophole" to sign a contract 'In the dark." "This is exactly what we didn't want to happen," Yusufi told Axios, "and should not happen anymore." Call or show up at the Privacy Advisory Board today and let them know if they should approve the City's Flock policies. Search Privacy Advisory Board and go to the meeting agendas for zoom info. https://www.sandiego.gov/sites/default/files/2026-04/pab-agenda-260430.pdf #alpr #flock #surveillance

Show up to San Diego City Council Thursday, April 30 at 5:30pm. That's this week at San Diego City Hall on the 12th floor. The Privacy Advisory Board votes ONCE A YEAR on Flock ALPR, Smart Streetlights & more in their annual hearing on the City's Annual Surveillance Report. This is THE vote in which they'll make their recommendations on these technologies. Tell the Board: NO RUBBER STAMPS. The Privacy Advisory Board was created to protect San Diegans' privacy. But police have been heavily lobbying them to take a weak, passive approach to Flock license plate readers, Smart Streetlights, and other concerning surveillance tech. PAB needs to hear from the community. 💛 Make it personal. 🔨 Tell the PAB how surveillance affects you. 🛑 Demand accountability for the threats of surveillance tech. #alpr #flock #sandiego #surveillance #vigilancia #migra

Our communities are facing rapidly growing dangers as the use of AI-based surveillance systems spreads. Read about TRUST SD (Transparent and Responsible Use of Surveillance Technology San Diego) coalition’s fight to stave off invasive surveillance and demand transparency in The Nation. Link in bio 🔗 #SanDiego #TRUSTSD #Surveillance #AI #Privacy @nationmag - @sandiegotrust - sandiegotrust.org @panasandiego @gleem0trix @homayray

Former ICE and CBP leaders who have now left the agency told the Financial Times that previous safeguards are gone, with ICE pursuing aggressive quotas by using data from Social Security, the IRS, and commercial surveillance and license plate reader companies like Vigilant, Thompson Reuters, and Palantir. /us-ice-surveillance/

We've been debating with Councilmember Campillo in the comments section. There was a data breach. We also have rights to privacy in public. The Supreme Court's Carpenter supreme court case said that cell phone tower information about your cell phone locations -- information about your locations in public, but owned by a private company here -- requires a warrant. It is not about cell phones going into your house ,@cm_marnivonwilpert . It is about the granularity of location data providing a portrait of intimate details of ones life, even though it is in public. If you claim believe in the US constitution, not plugging into global, AI Thiel Andreesen data surveillance systems is where it starts.

Why is San Diego Paying for More Police Surveillance? Taxpayer dollars should be used to serve our city, not the interests of tech companies. By Kelly Gates, author dope book “Targeted: Corporations and the Police Surveillance Economy,” published by NYU Press. Gates has studied the business plans of police tech companies and shows how these companies a phone public funds to pay off rich tech investors. Head over to Voice of San Diego for the full op ed: /2025/12/09/san-diego-police-surveillance-flock-opinion/

Former Captain Jordon's job at Flock isn't only about the appearance of conflicts of interest. For some of us, it is also a out the City stifling our public sphere. Jeff Jordon's job at SDPD included soliciting public input on surveillance tech the department was "considering." These meetings were required by the TRUST Ordinance to make sure we residents had meaningful chances to deliberate and at least act as part of the public process. But City implementation of these meetings turned them into sales sessions rather than collective deliberation and input to the City. The second photo is Jordon presenting Alpr to community members in 2023. Flock, a company that hired a sitting Mayor or Moreno Valley (Tech crunch), immediately hired Jordon after his retirement. While it may be formally ethical, it is clear that San Diego communities were robbed of genuine community input meetings required by the TRUST Ordinance. The law we fought for says the City has to listen to and note our input. It says those meetings have to be posted in multiple languages. That hasn't happened. Jeff Jordon is only one person to hold accountable in a system that resists transparent and accountable governance.

What the Flock indeed! Union Tribune drops this gem: An SDPD captain helped secure a multimillion dollar surveillance deal. Now he works for the contractor. /2025/12/09/an-sdpd-captain-helped-secure-a-multimillion-dollar-surveillance-deal-now-he-works-for-the-contractor/

SD City Council votes on Flock TODAY Thousands have sent emails, signed petitions, and called in to stop Flock. Today is the day to hold our representatives accountable. Come to City Council. If you can’t, call in. Today, Dec 9 at 2pm SD City Hall 202 C St 12th floor or online Info on how to comment here: https://trst.fyi/stop-flock-e (link in bio) Want a reminder or tips? Dm us