🚨THE FLOCK BAIT & SWITCH More and more cities dumping Flock. Are they dumping mass surveillance or UPGRADING it to Axon? Did a LOT of research into what’s happening with the “Dump Flock” movement and the accelerating switch to Axon. Lots of facts & numbers below. HOW AXON GOT HERE That company our cops bought TASERs & body cams from for decades has morphed into an enormous integrated police-tech ecosystem:. Examples: street surveillance. ALPR. Private CCTV integration. Drones. 911. Cop GPS. Body cams. Dash cams. TASERs. Evidence cloud. AI analysis. AI-written police-report drafts. Records. Increasingly one company connecting the whole trip from 911 call to courtroom. And the ability to tie everything to everything in the entire process via AI. 1993: AIR TASER founded by Rick & Tom Smith to commercialize a non-firearm redesign of Jack Cover’s TASER. 1ST AIR TASER: 1994. 2008: 1ST major expansion beyond TASERs. Axon Pro body cam+digital evidence software. Cameras become data. Data becomes the business. 2013–23: Axon becomes a whole ecosystem. Cloud evidence. Ever-more-sophisticated body cams. In-cop-car cams. Automatic voice recognition transcription. Records management. ALPR. Real-time operations. Axon Body adds livestreaming, cop location & automated alerts. Body cam becomes a networked sensor worn by the cop. Half the evidence room is packed into the system. 2024: FUSUS. Axon buys all. Combined acquisition-date value roughly $305M. Real-time crime center platform. Live fixed cams. Body cams. ALPR. Drones. City cameras. Transit cameras. Participating private cameras. Third-party systems. Other sensors. One interface. The surveillance system grows. 2024: DRAFT ONE. Generative-AI police-report drafting from body-cam audio. Audio uploads. Automatic transcription. Draft narrative generated within minutes. Cop reviews, edits & signs. Reports don’t literally file themselves. But AI now writes the 1ST draft. Also 2024: DEDRONE. Drone detection. Airspace surveillance. Drone-as-First-Responder expansion. Axon building upward as well as outward. 2025–26: FIXED ALPR. Axon Outpost + Lightpost. Now a direct Flock competitor. Smaller fixed cams + streetlight-mounted units + livestreaming + ALPR + vehicle recognition, plugged into the larger Axon/Fusus ecosystem. Investigate WHY your city is dumping Flock. Some cities are sincerely dumping Flock and fighting mass surveillance. Others are putting potato sacks over Flock cameras and cosplaying with public outcry while top cops hustle cities hard toward an upgraded Axon surveillance contract in the background. Both things are happening. More tech. 2025: PREPARED. Axon buys AI-powered 911 company for about $640M. Call audio. Text. Video. GPS. Real-time language translation. AI intelligence. Already serving 1K+ agencies in 49 states and metastasizing. 2026: CARBYNE. $625M acquisition completed. Cloud-native 911 infrastructure serving hundreds of agencies. Prepared + Carbyne become AXON 911. Cloud call handling. Caller data. Transcription. Translation. AI summaries. Real-time intelligence. All connected to the ever-growing Axon universe. Axon can now enter the chain before a cop is dispatched and remain in it through response, surveillance, evidence, investigation, AI report drafting, records & court. Axon coined the corporate scripture of “call to Closure” to describe this process. Total police state closure. WHAT AXON CAN ACTUALLY SURVEIL NOW Fixed ALPR. Mobile ALPR built into patrol cars. Body cams. In-car video. City CCTV. Transit CCTV. Participating private/business cameras. Real-time crime centers. Cop GPS/location. Livestreaming. Drones/DFR. Drone detection. 911 calls & associated data. Digital evidence. Records. Automatic transcription. Real-time language translation. AI video/evidence analysis. AI police-report drafting. And they have a killer new ALPR package. "Fleet 3" turns the patrol fleet into roaming plate readers. Cops don’t need fixed Flocks on their goofy lampposts anymore. Fleet 3 outdoes them exponentially. Comes with dedicated 4K sensors. Reads 3 traffic lanes simultaneously. Compares plates against hotlists. Uploads reads into Axon’s cloud. ALPR collection continues whenever enabled Fleet 3 is powered up, even if ordinary alerts are suspended. Old Flock system: Big clumsy fixed camera on pole upsetting suburbia into protests. Limited system. Cars pass pole. Camera reads plates. Data goes to database mothership. Pretty much the end. It can be accessed but cops are getting busted all day long for channeling the system from outside. No more embarrassed cops with a fully integrated Axon ecosystem. New Axon ecosystem: every equipped patrol car can read plates wherever it drives. Outpost + Lightpost add fixed coverage. Fusus pulls ALPR, camera, drone, body-cam & other sensor feeds together. Axon says Fleet 3 had already accumulated 8.1 BILLION LICENSE-PLATE READS by April 2025. FUSUS is the glue. One real-time interface integrating Axon gear AND 3rd-party systems. Public cameras. Participating private cameras. Body cams. Drones. ALPR. Sensors. CAD. Evidence. Early 2025: Fusus already supporting millions of livestreams annually across 2K+ agencies. And non-police private cameras. Business, school, church, apartment complex, etc. are going under contract to allow its existing camera network to connect to Axon Fusus. It is called Fusus CORE. Police electronically request your Ring footage from small business. And they tap into more than they are under contract allowed to tap into beyond that. CITIES DUMPING FLOCK & LOOKING TO AXON Denver, CO: dumped Flock. Approved 50 Axon ALPR cams. $150K. 1-year contract. Durango, CO: no more Flock. Switching ALPR to Axon. Previously access to 21 Flock cams. Chief specifically cited integration with Axon body cams + in-car systems already in use. Pasco County, FL: sheriff replacing Flock with Axon. Explicit reason: already uses Axon body cams, TASERs & evidence management. Now integrate ALPR into the existing Axon system. Abington Township, PA: commissioners considered a 5-year Axon agreement to replace Flock with Axon cameras + ALPR. Moorhead, MN: 7 Flock Falcons. Now testing Axon Outpost + Lightpost + Vehicle Intelligence. Proposed 5-year package: about $136K. City hasn’t approved the switch yet. Cops want it. Boston, MA: stopped using Flock. Did NOT stop ALPR. Moved to pilots involving Motorola & Axon. The list keeps growing. Some communities under public pressure really ARE dismantling ALPR surveillance. For now. Others are dumping one surveillance vendor and shopping for a more invasive one. Watch the language. “WE GOT RID OF FLOCK” DOES NOT MEAN “WE GOT RID OF ALPR.” And watch your police chief. If the chief is publicly celebrating the end of Flock, find the procurement documents online. Find out what the department is asking the city to buy next. Cops don’t give up their toys unless they get shinier newer ones. Axon has an enormous advantage. Departments already love its gear. Many already live inside its ecosystem. Stuff Axon long sold for decades such as…TASER. Body cam. Dash cam. Evidence. Fleet. Add ALPR. Add Fusus. Add drones. Add Draft One. Add Records. Add 911. Each new piece talks to the others now. 911 call. Street cams. Participating private cams. Plate read. Drone. Patrol car. Cop GPS. Body cam. TASER activation cams. Arrest. Interview. Evidence upload. AI transcription. AI-drafted report. Records. Investigation. Courtroom. Axon has it all and integrates and writes the report for the cop who only has to sign it. Axon itself calls what it is building the “largest global ecosystem of connected public safety devices and services.” Believe them when they threaten that. We must start paying very close attention to exactly what our cities are buying. AXON BEHIND THE WALLS Axon now markets an integrated corrections ecosystem for jails & prisons: body cams. TASER 10. Fusus. Facility cameras & sensors. AI monitoring. Drones. Perimeter surveillance. Cell extractions. Prisoner transport. Federal corrections too. And in July 2026, ICE awarded Axon a $13.1M sole-source body-camera order for its Office of Firearms & Tactical Programs. That is another big topic I will document in another long post. Lots of links below. Spread this info far and wide. SOURCE LINKS: axon.com/resources/how-axon-… axon.com/resources/history-o… axon.com/resources/police-bo… axon.com/products axon.com/products/axon-fusus axon.com/resources/how-axon-… axon.com/resources/community… axon.com/products/axon-fusus… axon.com/help/fusus/software… axon.com/help/fusus/software… axon.com/products/community-… axon.com/products/community-… axon.com/help/axon-community… axon.com/help/axon-community… axon.com/help/axon-community… getstarted.axon.com/resident… axon.com/products/draft-one axon.com/responsibility/draf… axon.com/help/draft-one/soft… axon.com/resources/how-to-wr… axon.com/resources/closer-lo… axon.com/blog/how-draft-one-… axon.com/blog/axon-completes… axon.com/newsroom/press-rele… axon.com/blog/harnessing-ai-… axon.com/newsroom/press-rele… investor.axon.com/2025-11-04… axon.com/products/axon-outpo… axon.com/products/axon-light… axon.com/newsroom/press-rele… axon.com/blog/responsible-in… axon.com/help/fleet-3/camera… axon.com/help/fleet-3/camera… denver.legistar.com/Legislat… denverite.com/2026/03/18/axo… durangoco.gov/m/newsflash?ca… rmpbs.org/news/government/du… durangoherald.com/articles/n… tampabay28.com/news/local-ne… inquirer.com/news/abington-f… valleynewslive.com/2026/09/1… bostonglobe.com/2026/08/27/b… bostonglobe.com/2026/09/22/b… axon.com/industries/federal/… highergov.com/contract/70B03…

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Another Flock L - Monroe, OH; Monterey County, CA; York, ME; Hutto, TX. 259 contracts between Aug 1 - Sep 22, 2026. secure-justice.org/flock-ter…

Legislative Trojan horses 🇪🇺 Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 🇪🇺 Social media ban for children 🇪🇺 Addictive design ban for adults 🇪🇺 Combat fraud and serious crime 🇦🇺 Social media ban for children 🇺🇸 Social media ban for children 🇺🇸 Addictive design restrictions for children 🇳🇿 Social media ban for children 🇮🇪 Social media ban for children 🇫🇷 Social media ban for children 🇨🇦 Social media ban for children 🇬🇧 Social media ban for children 🇬🇧 Addictive design restrictions for children 🇬🇧 Child exploitation & grooming protection 🇬🇧 Force platforms to prioritise "trusted" news 🇦🇪 Social media ban for children 🇪🇸 Social media ban for children 🇬🇷 Social media ban for children 🇩🇰 Social media ban for children 🇳🇴 Social media ban for children 🇦🇹 Social media ban for children 🇵🇱 Social media ban for children 🇸🇮 Social media ban for children 🇹🇷 Social media ban for children 🇮🇩 Social media ban for children 🇲🇾 Social media ban for children 🇧🇷 Social media restrictions for children 🇵🇹 Social media restrictions for children 🇮🇳 Social media ban for children 🇸🇪 Social media ban for children 🇩🇪 Social media restrictions for children 🇮🇹 Social media restrictions for children 🇨🇳 Social media restrictions for children I’m sharing this because more journalists have started following my work, and I want to show what I’m exposing through technical analysis anyone can understand. I’m working on one of my most consequential investigations into legislation and technology built for digital surveillance. It’s called Chat Control. What follows looks like coordination between governments and a handful of tech companies. Tech companies get more data to monetise. Governments gain the ability to monitor who says what, to whom, why, where they go and how they spend money. Technical Trojan horses 🇪🇺 Compulsory identity verification 🇪🇺 Scan private communications 🇪🇺 Weaken end to end encryption 🇪🇺 Expand lawful access 🇬🇧 Compulsory identity verification 🇬🇧 Compulsory on-device scanning for every app 🇬🇧 Algorithms to prioritize trusted news sources 🇦🇺 Compulsory identity verification 🇳🇿 Compulsory identity verification 🇮🇪 Compulsory identity verification 🇫🇷 Compulsory identity verification 🇪🇸 Compulsory identity verification 🇬🇷 Compulsory identity verification 🇩🇰 Compulsory identity verification 🇳🇴 Compulsory identity verification 🇦🇹 Compulsory identity verification 🇵🇱 Compulsory identity verification 🇸🇮 Compulsory identity verification 🇹🇷 Compulsory identity verification 🇦🇪 Compulsory identity verification 🇮🇩 Compulsory identity verification 🇲🇾 Compulsory identity verification 🇧🇷 Compulsory identity verification 🇵🇹 Compulsory identity verification 🇨🇦 Compulsory identity verification 🇺🇸 Compulsory identity verification Spot the pattern. 🔞 Australia set the stage. Other countries are now following with "robust" age assurance language in their TV appearances, including the US, UK and Ireland. The US AGs have added it to the proposed legislation following the Meta lawsuit. 💡 Australia’s own standard says age checks must be "technically accurate, robust, and reliable". "Robust" means fault proof. It brings meaning like "best" endeavours. Age estimation can’t meet that standard. As Australia defines it, age verification determines age "to a high level of accuracy", while age estimation only provides an approximate age. Fault proof age checking requires identity verification. Now look at the tech companies and what they built recently. Apple, Google, Meta and Microsoft built identity verification capabilities before governments started saying existing age assurance wasn’t "robust" enough. They knew what was coming. 🪪 Apple has age assurance APIs that can return verified age ranges, including confirmation using government ID, and its Wallet API lets apps verify age or identity from government issued digital ID. 🪪 Google recently built an Age Signals API so apps can receive age ranges and verification status. Android already lets parents block apps by age across the entire device, so this isn’t technically necessary for child safety. Google has also added facial verification to Google Account and Gmail recovery through selfie video matching, presented as account security. 🪪 Meta launched selfie based Facebook verification that checks a video selfie against profile photos and plans to expand it globally. 🪪 Microsoft has rolled out age assurance across Microsoft Accounts using facial age estimation, identity documents and government systems. Refuse to verify and some content and features are blocked. 💭 A handful of tech companies control the operating systems, app stores and identity layers across almost every mobile device. Governments barely need to negotiate outside G7 rooms. If Apple, Google, Meta and Microsoft enforce the same rules, billions of people are instantly impacted. The same technical capability keeps appearing: identify verification. Identity the person first, then decide what they’re allowed to do, who they're allowed to speak to, and when they're allowed to move money. p.s. Anthropic and OpenAI have identity verification services and the US government holds a kill switch that decides who has permission to use AI. --- Let me know if I got anything wrong. I have 60 minutes to make an edit. Or just leave a comment so others can see your correction.

Issue 101 of PrivacyTests.org is out today!

The hypocrisy and irony is major league level. Not breaking news - privacy matters to everyone. officerprivacy.com/homepage3

Another Flock L - Adrian, MI. secure-justice.org/flock-ter…

Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee ----- As dozens of cities end contracts for its controversial license plate readers, Flock is rolling out a voluntary severance program, WIRED has learned. archive.ph/QF72n#selection-7…

The Schmidt v. Norvolk "Flock" lawsuit is presently being appealed. Read what privacy lawyer Pegah K. Parsi says about where the trial court went wrong. secure-justice.org/blog/alpr…

Another Flock L - Foster, RI. From Aug 1 - Sep 16: 248 contract terminations, an average of 7.75/per business day. Across the country, regular people are making clear they do not consent to our governments tracking us as we go about our daily life. secure-justice.org/flock-ter…

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🚨 Police BIG mad that Police are using Flock The D.C. Police Union just filed a complaint after discovering internal affairs was secretly using Flock cameras to track officers accused of misconduct. Now they're demanding "new guardrails"... Peak irony. 🤣

Another Flock L - Clark County, WI. secure-justice.org/flock-ter…

Another Flock L - Wilmington, MA; Plano, TX; Racine, WI; Eastpointe, MI; Moline, IL. secure-justice.org/flock-ter…

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Axon takes an L. wlwt.com/article/covington-c…

From Aug 1 - Sep 11, 2026: 223 Flock contracts have evaporated, an average of 7.7 contracts per business day in that date range. This is a national movement against mass surveillance. secure-justice.org/flock-ter…

Another Flock L - 61 confirmed in September secure-justice.org/flock-ter…

We always have a choice. Say No to Flock's vision of "Freedom." Join the fight here: secure-justice.org/donate

Anthropic Is building a surveillance system to monitor activists using a “pre-crime” approach that tries to predict incidents before they happen. The extensive monitoring system that the AI company is building is aimed primarily at keeping tabs on activists who oppose the rapid development of artificial intelligence. More from @DRBoguslaw below: prospect.org/2026/09/09/anth…