On Tuesday March 24, the Berkeley City Council will vote on expanding their contracts with Flock Safety to include drones and a home-based surveillance network.
If you’re against mass surveillance, or you’re concerned about Flock Safety turning over people’s images to ICE, you have only a few days to stop Berkeley from heading down this dangerous path.
Tuesday March 24, 6PM:
Berkeley City Council Votes to Expand Surveillance,
and contracts with “Flock Safety,” which violates our state and city Sanctuary laws.
Click on these images to read the City staff proposal, and why two commissions oppose it:
- The complex agenda item on Tuesday’s Council agenda expanding Flock’s surveillance system in Berkeley
- Police Accountability Board concerns over the proposed deals with Flock
- Peace and Justice Commission’s rejection of Berkeley Flock contracts: “Cancel Berkeley’s Flock Safety contracts for public surveillance images and video footage, due to Flock’s repeated sharing of such data with immigration authorities, and the inherent exposure of ‘cloud-based’ storage to Trump administration access.”
Then click to read what community member have to say:
- Berkeley Speaks article from Fall 2025 summarizing the history of the struggle over the Flock contracts, including the city’s Sanctuary policies, Flock’s history of allowing ICE access to local data (including Berkeley’s), the drone proposal, and other local examples of collaboration with ICE.
- Kitt Saginor drills deep into the misinformation from the police that the surveillance images and videos they share with Flock are protected from the hands of ICE and other federal agencies. Berkeley’s Flock contract itself makes an exception for judicial warrants, and will turn over whatever a judge orders. And a FISA warrant (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) is even more powerful, being entirely secret. The only way to avoid ICE getting our data is to not collect it.
