Flock Safety cameras

Urged Council to cancel the Flock contract, arguing cameras don't reduce crime, have been used nearly 300 times to track immigrants, and that abuse isn't a question of if but when.

Said she's alarmed the city contributes to nationwide population surveillance, noting out-of-state searches of Cleveland's Flock database despite blocking, and Ohio agencies' ICE 287(g) agreements.

Questioned trust in both Flock — which owns the data and encryption keys — and city leadership, asking why guardrails haven't been independently verified and why Council hasn't scrutinized the deal.

Said Flock is not to be trusted and its top investor opposes regulation and democratic institutions; asked Council to end the contract soon, and promoted an upcoming library book club.

Presented audit-log analysis: 273 immigration-enforcement searches, 13,000 vague-terminology searches, and 5,826 'track/locate' searches with nearly 6% tied to no crime — asking Council, 'what is your dealbreaker?'

Described the Shake Off Flock campaign's warm reception in the Memorial Day Parade and asked why it took a records request five months to surface the immigration searches.

Reported strong resident opposition from his Ludlow-area precinct campaigning and argued data shows no evidence cameras reduce crime — 'there's no tradeoff.'

Said he wants to live in a safe community, not a surveilled one, and that the risks of the Flock network clearly outweigh any rewards.

An eighth grader who researched Flock for his capstone project said the security benefits aren't worth the privacy cost, citing 403,910 outside-agency searches including 196 using ICE by name.

Drawing on her medical-field background, compared hospitals' strict data-confidentiality enforcement to the city's handling of residents' electronic data and called for a hard line protecting residents.

Speaking by video from Huntington Road, said she does not consent to being tracked or to her tax dollars funding a company that doesn't believe in democracy, quoting Maya Angelou's 'do better.'