We, the undersigned residents of Cayuga County, New York who live in or frequent the City of Auburn, NY, respectfully petition the Auburn City Council to immediately terminate its contract with Flock Safety and remove all associated surveillance cameras and infrastructure from our community.

The deployment of Flock Safety's automated license plate reader (ALPR) technology in Auburn was carried out without meaningful public notice, debate, or community consent. This system was introduced through a state-funded initiative with little transparency, bypassing the kind of open deliberation that residents deserve when invasive surveillance technology is brought into their neighborhoods. We believe this process denied Auburn residents their right to informed participation in decisions that directly affect their privacy and civil liberties.

We raise the following concerns:

Flock Safety is a private, for-profit corporation, yet it has been granted the ability to conduct mass surveillance of Auburn residents going about their daily lives. The company's technology captures and stores detailed records of vehicle movements, creating a comprehensive picture of where residents travel, when, and how often. This amounts to warrantless tracking of law-abiding citizens who have not been accused of any wrongdoing.

Flock Safety's terms of service and data-sharing policies have undergone troubling revisions since the company's founding. These changes have expanded the scope of how collected data may be used, retained, and shared; often without equivalent notice to the communities being surveilled. Residents who never consented to this surveillance in the first place have no meaningful ability to review, challenge, or opt out of these evolving terms.

Of particular alarm is the breadth of Flock Safety's data-sharing practices. Information collected from Auburn's streets may be shared with federal agencies including Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal law enforcement bodies, as well as with other law enforcement jurisdictions across the country through Flock's nationwide network. Data may also be accessible to other private entities and third-party partners. Auburn residents did not agree to have their movements fed into a national surveillance web operated by a private company and accessible to an open-ended list of government and non-government actors.

We therefore call upon the Auburn City Council to:

Take immediate action to terminate the city's contract with Flock Safety; order the removal of all Flock Safety cameras and associated equipment from Auburn's roads and public spaces; demand the permanent deletion of all data collected on Auburn residents and visitors; adopt a municipal policy requiring full public notice, community input, and a City Council vote before any surveillance technology may be acquired or deployed in the future; and publicly disclose all terms, costs, and data-sharing agreements associated with the existing Flock Safety contract.

Our neighborhoods are not data collection zones. Our daily lives are not products to be harvested by a private company and distributed to federal agencies and unknown third parties. We demand transparency, accountability, and respect for the rights that belong to every resident of this city.