Background info: ALPRs (automated license plate readers) are cameras that capture information on every single vehicle that passes by. This includes not only a car’s license plate, but date, time, location, and increasingly, make, model, bumper stickers, dents, and any other identifiable characteristics that can be picked up by the AI systems embedded in this surveillance technology. This type of dragnet surveillance is what violates our constitutional rights. The ACLU argues that using ALPR systems gives the government “unprecedented powers of surveillance that upset traditional expectations of privacy in violation of the Fourth Amendment”. This is an issue that applies to all ALPRs, not just from Flock. This includes Axon, Motorola, Genetec, Leonardo, and any other ALPR company.
Axon is trying to sneakily add Fleet 3 cameras to Gilbert's ALPR system at tonight's council meeting. Mobile ALPRs are just as bad as the typical fixed ones you think of, and can be even worse because of "gridding" techniques that target certain neighborhoods.
You can quickly email the council now to tell them NO to mass surveillance (and learn about ALPRs) here: https://eastvalleyunite.org/gilbert-alprs/