10/29/2026
Last week, RI State Police released a new policy governing the use of Flock and other automated license plate readers (ALPRs). But no amount of regulation can change the fact that the spread of ALPRs is a symptom of the wider racist, capitalist system of American policing.
With police and ICE terror posing a continual threat to the safety of our communities, the need to curb the power of the police to surveil, target, and terrorize us is urgent.
The new statewide guidance pretends as if the police are capable of policing themselves. But ALPRs are only the latest technology in an enduring police system that will always reinforce itself, by any means necessary.
CANCEL FLOCK NOW – THE WHOLE SYSTEM IS GUILTY!