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We are about Transparent and Responsible Use of Surveillance Technology Uniting communities across San Diego www.sandiegotrust.org

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San Diego TRUST Coalition @sandiegotrust.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Friday, August 21, 5:30-8:30pm Safety in Unity 2026: Flock Out of Everywhere 📍 PANA Event Hall, 5555 University Ave Join us for food and a panel conversation with organizers from Austin, LA, and other cities who are advancing the fight to end ALPR. RSVP mobilize.us/s/8rKpoh
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San Diego TRUST Coalition @sandiegotrust.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Wednesday, August 19 at 2pm: Show up at City Council! Give public testimony at the Public Safety Committee meeting. Tell San Diego City Council directly why you think ALPR needs to go. Sign the petition now to get more info from ACLU: bit.ly/NoALPRinSanDiego
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Tell San Diego City Council & Mayor Todd Gloria: No ALPRs in San Diego!
Take action with ACLU!
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San Diego TRUST Coalition @sandiegotrust.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
City Heights Neighborhood Canvassing Sunday, August 16, 11am-2pm Cafeina Cafe, 4011 46th St Walk City Heights with us! Share Know Your Rights info and let the community know where ALPR/Flock cameras are spying on our community. All materials provided. Wear comfy shoes!
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San Diego TRUST Coalition @sandiegotrust.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
August 16-22 is the National Week of Action Against ALPRs. Join us and fight back. Sunday, canvass City Heights. Wednesday, tell SD City Council why they should shut down ALPR. Friday, hear from Austin and LA organizers at Safety in Unity 2026. Details in thread below... 🧵
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San Diego TRUST Coalition @sandiegotrust.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
SDPD jailed the wrong person for several weeks based on Flock ALPR. Flock has led to wrongful accusation elsewhere, and now it happened here. Tell City Council and @MayorToddGloria not a cent more for for Flock! timesofsandiego.com/crime/2026/0... #surveillance #sandiego
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A Flock license plate reader linked a San Diego man to a violent crime. He was five miles away.
A San Diego man spent one month in jail for a crime he didn't commit, after San Diego Police misinterpreted a hit from a license plate reader.
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San Diego TRUST Coalition @sandiegotrust.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Join community on Monday May 4th (today!) at the City of San Diego’s Evening Budget Hearing to tell the City what you want funded instead of Flock smart streetlights. With arts and children's services chopped, there's so much more to want than surveillance 6pm at 202 C Street, SD City Hall, 12th fl
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San Diego TRUST Coalition @sandiegotrust.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
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."
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San Diego TRUST Coalition @sandiegotrust.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
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..."
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San Diego TRUST Coalition @sandiegotrust.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
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. www.404media.co/license-plat... #sandiego
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San Diego TRUST Coalition @sandiegotrust.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Show up at PAB today (in person, online) and tell them if they should approve the Flock policy. Find the agenda and zoom link here: www.sandiego.gov/sites/defaul...
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San Diego TRUST Coalition @sandiegotrust.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Flock Nova is a "platform [that] integrates police departments' investigative data." More startlingly, it "gives SDPD access to 'open source intelligence' [data scraped and bought online] and data from other law enforcement agencies" according to the SDPD Flock contract.
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San Diego TRUST Coalition @sandiegotrust.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Last Dec, SDPD quietly signed a contract for Flock Nova without going through the Privacy Advisory Board or public oversight process. Nova, like Palantir, links and integrates in house and "open source intelligence." www.axios.com/local/san-di... #alpr #flock #surveillance
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Lilly Irani @gleemie.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
While City Council was filled with thousands of people asking for the Flock contract to be dropped, SDPD signed a contract (same month!) with Flock for Nova, the Palantir-like data fusion software without bringing it to the public. www.axios.com/local/san-di...
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Scoop: San Diego police quietly signed new Flock tech deal
Police say the software was exempt from an oversight process for surveillance tech.
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San Diego TRUST Coalition @sandiegotrust.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
The PAB was created to protect our privacy. But police have been heavily lobbying them to take a weak, passive approach to Flock license plate readers and other concerning surveillance tech. 💛 Make it personal 🔨 Tell how surveillance affects you 🛑 Demand accountability
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San Diego TRUST Coalition @sandiegotrust.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Show up to San Diego City Council Thursday, April 30 at 5:30pm @ San Diego City Hall (12th floor). The Privacy Advisory Board votes ONCE A YEAR on Flock ALPR, Smart Streetlights & more. Tell the Board: NO RUBBER STAMPS. PAB needs to hear from the community. #alpr #flock
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San Diego TRUST Coalition @sandiegotrust.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Flock left 60 Condor AI-people tracking cameras open to the internet. @404mediaco reports cameras can zoom in close enough to read your cell phone screen. San Diego has not said it has these cameras, but it shows (again) Flock as sloppy and creepy. www.404media.co/flock-expose...
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Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves
Flock left at least 60 of its people-tracking Condor PTZ cameras live streaming and exposed to the open internet.
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San Diego TRUST Coalition @sandiegotrust.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Former ICE and CBP leaders who have now left the agency told the FT 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. ig.ft.com/us-ice-surve...
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San Diego TRUST Coalition @sandiegotrust.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
We are inspired, furious, and we will not stop. Read our statement on yesterday's San Diego City Council vote on ALPR.
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 technologies, continuing the use of Flock. We thank CMs Elo-Rivera, Foster, and Moreno for opposing. We saw them dig into the police department's and Flock's policies and practices, validating community concerns and clarifying problems Flock kept dismissing as "hypotheticals." 

All the calls and conversations before the vote made a difference. We saw some Councilmembers take this more seriously than they had before, with CM Lee saying he wants to have a call for vendors this year.

Let's take a breath, reflect, and plan for the fight ahead.
In February, the City's 2026 Annual Surveillance Report process begins. Funding surveillance will come up in the budget process. 

And we can find ways to resist surveillance all day every day. Let's build the world we want to live in. 

Sign up here to get direct updates from TRUST Coalition and keep pushing:
 https://trst.fyi/plugin
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San Diego TRUST Coalition @sandiegotrust.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
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. www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/12/09/a...
Union Tribune headline "An sdpd captain helped secure a multimillion dollar surveillance deal. now he works for the contractor."
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San Diego TRUST Coalition @sandiegotrust.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
SD City Council votes on Flock TODAY at 2pm downtown. Today is the day to hold our representatives accountable. Come to City Council. If you can’t, call in. Action toolkit: trst.fyi/stop-flock-e Want a reminder or tips? Dm us
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San Diego TRUST Coalition @sandiegotrust.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
"We hacked Flock Safety cameras in under 30 seconds" www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB0g...
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We Hacked Flock Safety Cameras in under 30 Seconds. 🫥
YouTube video by Benn Jordan
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San Diego TRUST Coalition @sandiegotrust.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
"Get Flock off our block" is also excellent. Credit to gee_emcee on IG
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San Diego TRUST Coalition @sandiegotrust.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Phrase of the year: "get the flock out of my city!"
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San Diego TRUST Coalition @sandiegotrust.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
For 2 weeks this year, unauthorized outside agencies searched SD's Flock license plate data. Flock messed up the settings. SDPD first hid the breach, then admitted it months later but still redacts the reasons for the 12,914 unauthorized searches. Council vote Tue! Act now: trst.fyi/stop-flock-e
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San Diego TRUST Coalition @sandiegotrust.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
SD City Council votes on Flock tomorrow! 🗯️ Why do you want Flock stopped? Leave your story in the replies. Tomorrow, come to City Council downtown at 2pm. If you can’t, call in. Info to show up or call in here: trst.fyi/stop-flock-e Want a reminder or tips? Dm us
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San Diego TRUST Coalition @sandiegotrust.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Union or Bust talks about Flock, and why the right to privacy still matters no matter what Silicon Valley or the police try to tell us. youtu.be/yyNIR4XIork?...
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UnionorBust #53-Lilly Irani, FLOCK cameras are bad for workers!
On this episode, we interviewed Lilly Irani, an Associate Professor at UCSD and a member of the SD Trust Coalition that is fighting surveillance in San Diego. For more information, visit…
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San Diego TRUST Coalition @sandiegotrust.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Remove Flock. Send your public comment now and show up in City Council Tuesday at 2pm. trst.fyi/stop-flock-e
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TRUST Talking Points and Guide for 2025 December Shut down Flock!
Shut down Flock! San Diego, Fall 2025 SD City Council vote, Dec 9 at 2pm Talking Points and Ways to Push Back (en español) Contacts if you have questions: Lilly Irani: lilly.irani@gmail.com Seth…
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San Diego TRUST Coalition @sandiegotrust.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
"Ending the Flock contract is more than a policy choice. It is a declaration that San Diego values privacy, dignity and community trust." Patricia Mondragon @pmondragon.bsky.social, Alliance San Diego
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San Diego TRUST Coalition @sandiegotrust.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
"End the Flock contract now. We must use the millions of dollars used in the installation and implementation of this dangerous technology to fund proven solutions to public safety like affordable housing access to medical care, food security, child care" Branden Sigua @sdicaclu.bsky.social
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San Diego TRUST Coalition @sandiegotrust.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
“Stop placing wealth and profit over the privacy of our lives...of friends and our families and our members. End the use of ALPRs, end the relationship with this company, end the relationship w/these oppressive businesses...Get the Flock Out” Chris Wilson, United Domestic Workers
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San Diego TRUST Coalition @sandiegotrust.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
"Nobody should be OK w/the gestapo police state that is being formed right now in this country. [Flock] is about forming a mass surveillance network so that the hostile federal government can take over everything, and we are paying the price for it" Brigette Browning @sdiclaborcouncil.bsky.social
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San Diego TRUST Coalition @sandiegotrust.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
"Flock's pattern of behavior and the pattern of abuse of its technology makes it impossible for me to trust them or for me to tell San Diegans they should trust Flock with information about their every move." Councilmember Sean Elo-Rivera @seanelorivera.bsky.social
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San Diego TRUST Coalition @sandiegotrust.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
"We feel betrayed b/c the police are supposed to provide safety for our community, but by using this tech they are only causing more pain and suffering to our people, not only for the migrant families kidnapped by ICE terrorists, but to the entire community" Yolanda Menezes, ACCE
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San Diego TRUST Coalition @sandiegotrust.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Leaders and community spoke truth at our press conference this week. "The SD police officer that led this initiative, that led bringing this technology to the city of SD, is now an employee of Flock. There is something extremely wrong with how this was done." Councilmember Henry Foster
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San Diego TRUST Coalition @sandiegotrust.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Are people wondering why Flock is so terrible and out of control as a company? Here's a one pager you can share around too: docs.google.com/document/d/e...
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2025 Flock Hall of Shame
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San Diego TRUST Coalition @sandiegotrust.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
SD City Council votes on Flock next Tues, Dec 9 at 2pm! Mark your calendars to show up or call in. Tell City Council to shut down Flock. Pull the plug on out-of-control location data. Now: Call or message your Council rep. Our mailer makes it quick: trst.fyi/stop-flock-e
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San Diego TRUST Coalition @sandiegotrust.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Flock turbocharges unjust detentions. Our City should invest in safety through education, public libraries, community centers, hunger relief, affordable housing, parks, community gardens, and so much more. Message your Council member and show up Tuesday! trst.fyi/action
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San Diego TRUST Coalition @sandiegotrust.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Flock does not reduce crime, despite the dramatic one-off-story. Flock has failed to provide independent studies that verifies their research on ALPR’s effectiveness. Yet Flock scans everybody. Expected glitches can lead to dangerous false detentions www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlHL...
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Flock camera error leads police to detain wrong man
A Redmond father was handcuffed in his driveway after a Flock license plate camera linked his car to his son’s felony warrant. He says the system flawed.
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San Diego TRUST Coalition @sandiegotrust.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Police in Texas used Flock ALPR to get search for people seeking abortions in 2025. Flock lied about this to the public for months. www.404media.co/police-said-...
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San Diego TRUST Coalition @sandiegotrust.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
There have been multiple cases where Flock has been used to stalk members of the community, including the ex-girlfriend of a Kansas Police Chief in 2024. www.kansas.com/news/politic...
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San Diego TRUST Coalition @sandiegotrust.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Flock is built on investment by Peter Thiel, a venture capitalist who writes “I no longer believe freedom and democracy are compatible.” Donald Trump and Peter Thiel are using AI to supercharge the AI surveillance state, Reason Magazine writes. reason.com/video/2025/0...
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Donald Trump and Peter Thiel are using AI to supercharge the surveillance state
Peter Thiel warns of a pending one-world totalitarian government—while himself pushing to supercharge the surveillance state.
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San Diego TRUST Coalition @sandiegotrust.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Why shut down Flock? A thread 🧵⬇️ Message your Council member and show up at City Council next Tuesday, Dec 9! Flock prioritizes getting investors rich by building creepy AI and people profiling tools using our tax dollars. www.aclu.org/news/nationa...
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San Diego TRUST Coalition @sandiegotrust.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
City Council votes next Tues, Dec 9 at 2pm! Tell them to pull the plug on out-of-control location data. Shut down Flock! Mail your City Council rep now: actionnetwork.org/letters/shut... Show up or call in to City Council Dec 9 keep the pressure on.
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San Diego TRUST Coalition @sandiegotrust.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Organizing online, offline, and everywhere in between! Whoever is out there handing out flyers and having conversations at the club in Hillcrest, we love you! To all of you getting your friends to email City Council, we love you too! Get yours: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/dx27z...
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San Diego TRUST Coalition @sandiegotrust.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Flock lied about a Texas sheriff who searched Flock to track down a woman for an abortion. Flock asserted the woman was never under criminal investigation. Court documents showed Flock misled the public for months, accusing journalists of lying. #shutdownflock #whattheflock
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Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime
Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.
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Lilly Irani @gleemie.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Hearing SDPD say if people don't want their plates shared widely they can shop elsewhere is sbad faith when it is only a kpbs investigation that reveals the mall, Lowe's, and Home Depot sharing data.
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San Diego County police agencies access many private license plate readers with minimal oversight
Dozens of businesses and homeowners associations around San Diego allow law enforcement to search through data from their license plate readers, including Home Depot, Lowe's, and local malls.
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San Diego TRUST Coalition @sandiegotrust.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
San Diego City Council Public Safety Committee considers Flock this Wednesday, Nov 12 at 2pm. Tell them to get Flock out of San Diego, and explain to them how Flock makes your community less safe. Comment on agenda item 3: trst.fyi/PS-comm
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Public Safety Committee Public Comment Form | City of San Diego Official Website
In lieu of in-person attendance, members of the public may participate and provide comment via the Zoom webinar, telephone, the Committee form below, email submission or via U.S. Mail of written mater...
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San Diego TRUST Coalition @sandiegotrust.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Flock is ultimately accountable to Silicon Valley investors and windfall ‘exits’ rather than communities with appropriate products. Flock is experimenting with drone surveillance and people profiling tools that merge data from different sources. www.404media.co/license-plat...
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License Plate Reader Company Flock Is Building a Massive People Lookup Tool, Leak Shows
Flock, which has license plate readers (LPRs) all around the country, wants police to be able to “jump from LPR to person,” according to leaked audio obtained by 404 Media.
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San Diego TRUST Coalition @sandiegotrust.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Sen @RonWyden wrote to Flock in 2025: “Flock cannot live up to its commitment to protect the privacy and security of Oregonians. Abuse of Flock cameras is inevitable, and Flock has made it clear it takes no responsibility to prevent or detect that.” therecord.media/wyden-letter...
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Lawmakers ask FTC to probe Flock Safety’s cybersecurity practices
Questioning how Flock Safety protects sensitive user accounts, Sen. Ron Wyden and Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi want the FTC to investigate the police surveillance tech provider.
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San Diego TRUST Coalition @sandiegotrust.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
California Attorney General Rob Bonta has sued the city of El Cajon for sharing Flock license plate data with many states around the US in defiance of state laws. oag.ca.gov/news/press-r...
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Attorney General Bonta Sues El Cajon for Illegally Sharing License Plate Data with Out-of-State Law Enforcement
SAN DIEGO — California Attorney General Rob Bonta today filed a lawsuit against the City of El Cajon over its refusal to comply with state law prohibiting the sharing of license plate data with…
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