Becerra, Alexis
From: Michael Wauschek <
Sent: Tuesday, October 6, 2026 10: 07 AM
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Subject: Fw: oppose flock
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Hello i am concerned citizen
My name is Michael wauschek these flock cameras do more terrorizing our communities then good. If quot post track trafficking, minior abduction, sex rings, cartel ring, sleeper cell, missing kids/ at rick youth, elder/ disabled people. I haven' t heard a single case of only abusing of the system no thanks. If we let this keep happening it already iseral state of terristes free Palestine
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1 Becerra, Alexis
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Sent: Tuesday, October 6, 2026 12: 13 PM
To: eComment
Subject: For Public Comment: Santa Ana' s Flock ALPR Program - Request for Immediate Review, Transparency and Accountability
Attachments: Flock Camera Data. pdf
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Good afternoon,
Please see my public comment attached for tonight' s city council meeting.
Feel free to contact me with any questions.
Best,
Mario Henry Alvarado
Santa Ana Born.
Santa Ana Raised.
1 Good evening Mayor and Members of the City Council.
Over the past several weeks, Santa Ana residents have reached out to me with concerns about the City' s Flock license plate reader program. What stood out to me was that residents contacted me independently, but many of their concerns were very similar: Who has access to this information? Who can search it? Can other agencies access it? And what safeguards are actually in place to protect Santa Ana residents? My decades of experience in the financial sector leading financial representatives, taught me something very important about access to sensitive information, access was not supposed to happen simply because someone had the ability to look. There had to be a legitimate business purpose. There was a reason for the access, and there were checks and balances to protect the person whose information we were entrusted with. At tonight' s city council meeting, Santa Ana residents deserve that same basic assurance.
Information accessed through the flock system should require a clear reason tied to a legitimate law enforcement purpose or active investigation. And that access should be subject to an audit. An Audit & Access system is not complicated. But it can be an incredibly effective check and balance.
We support public safety. We support our police officers. We support giving those officers effective tools to investigate crimes and protect our community. We also know supporting law enforcement does not mean giving any technology a blank check.
During the May 6, 2025, Council discussion, Councilmember Phan specifically asked who within the Police Department would have access to ALPR data. Other Councilmembers also raised concerns about third- party data sharing. Those questions are important because residents deserve to know what actually happens to information collected about where they drive.
Tonight, concerned Santa Ana Residents, Taxpayers, and Voters are asking the Council to take several specific steps:
1. Clearly identify who has access to Santa Ana' s Flock data, including what categories of SAPD personnel have access and what level of access they have.
2. Identify what outside agencies can access or search Santa Ana' s data. That should include whether information can be obtained by federal agencies, either directly or indirectly.
3. Conduct an audit of how the system has actually been used since it was implemented. We should know who has searched the system, which agencies have requested or received information, and whether those searches complied with City policy and the City' s agreement.
4. Make the City' s Policies on access, sharing, retention, and auditing, available in plain language so residents don' t have to interpret a complicated contract to understand who can see information collected about them.
5. Lastly& Most Importantly, PAUSE the program until an effective Access & Audit System is in place. This is not a request to abandon the program. It is a request to put the necessary safeguards in place before continuing to collect and search this information.
City leaders, the police department and residents should be able to know who is accessing Santa Ana' s Flock data, when they are accessing it, and why.
Every search should have a legitimate law- enforcement purpose, preferably tied to an active investigation, and there should be a clear, permanent audit trail documenting that access. This is a simple principle: if we are going to collect this information from our residents, we should be able to account for every time it is accessed.
The pause should remain in place until the city can demonstrate meaningful safeguards are operational, not simply promised. How long that takes will ultimately be a decision for City leadership. It may take weeks, months, or longer. But the length of the pause should be determined by how seriously the City takes establishing these protections, not by how quickly we want to get the system running again. The question should not be, " How quickly can we resume the program?" The question should be, " What does it take to earn the public' s trust, and are we willing to do it?" Santa Ana residents understand that a temporary pause does not mean being anti- police. It means making sure that a system capable of collecting enormous amounts of information about ordinary people operates exactly as the public expects it to operate.
Ultimately, this isn' t just about cameras. It' s about trust. You are asking Santa Ana residents to accept certain limitations on their privacy in the name of public safety. In the current national climate, residents have every reason to expect that any information they surrender for that purpose will be treated with the highest level of care, not as something that is simply available because technology makes it possible. That information should be treated as priceless because the trust behind it is priceless.
Now, today, as our current elected representatives asking us to give up priceless rights, you have the ability to demonstrate that you understand what priceless truly means. You can establish the safeguards. You can require accountability. You can require an audit trail for access. And if necessary, you can pause the program until those protections are in place.
We, Santa Ana Residents, are asking you for that, not because we want less public safety, but because we know that when we entrust our information to our city, our government values that trust as much as they value our vote.
Thank you for your time.
Sincerely,
Mario Henry Alvarado
Santa Ana Born.
Santa Ana Raised.
Becerra, Alexis
From: Bulmaro Vicente < [email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 6, 2026 1: 34 PM
To: eComment
Subject: Item 30— Coalition Letter on Flock ALPR Contract Attachments: Item 30_ Coalition Urges Santa Ana to End Its Flock ALPR Contract.pdf Attention: This email originated from outside of City of Santa Ana. Use caution when opening attachments or links.
Hi,
On behalf of Chispa and our coalition partners, please find our letter regarding Item 30, urging the City Council to end the City' s contract with Flock Safety and remove automated license plate readers (ALPRs) from Santa Ana.
In Solidarity,
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Policy and Political Director I Chispa
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October 6, 2026
Mayor Amezcua and Members of the Council
City of Santa Ana
20 Civic Center Plaza
Santa Ana, CA 92701
Re: Item 30: End the Use of Automated License Plate Readers in Santa Ana Dear Mayor Amezcua and Members of the Santa Ana City Council, We, the undersigned organizations, write to urge the City of Santa Ana to terminate its contract with Flock Safety, Motorola Solutions, and remove all Automated License Plate Readers ALPRs) from the City, regardless of vendor.
Santa Ana residents deserve to move throughout their community without having their movements systematically recorded and made accessible through expansive law- enforcement surveillance networks. Automated license plate readers collect information about vehicles traveling through our neighborhoods regardless of whether the people driving them are suspected of any crime. The result is a system capable of documenting where people travel, when they travel, and which vehicles are present at particular locations.
When the Santa Ana City Council approved these contracts in May 2025, Councilmembers promised the community accountability. As part of the approval, the Council directed staff to return after one year for a public update on the program' s efficacy and use.' More than a year later, that promised public review has not happened.
That failure is particularly concerning given what we have learned about Santa Ana' s Flock system since its approval.
Public records obtained from the City reportedly show that the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center( NCRIQ conducted more than 27,000 searches that accessed Santa Ana' s ALPR network over a six- month period. Z Records also showed searches referencing at least seven federal agencies, including the FBI, DEA, U.S. Marshals Service, ATF, IRS, and U.S.
Forest Service.'
These revelations demonstrate a fundamental problem with ALPR technology: once this information enters a broad surveillance network, the City cannot guarantee that it will remain under meaningful local control.
For Santa Ana, these concerns are especially serious. Our city is home to immigrant families, working- class communities, and residents who have repeatedly called for greater transparency and accountability over surveillance technology. Residents should not have to wonder whether driving to work, taking their children to school, attending a protest, visiting a place of worship, seeking healthcare, or simply moving through their own community could become part of a searchable law- enforcement database.
We recognize that law enforcement may argue that ALPRs can assist with certain investigations and the recovery of stolen vehicles. But public safety cannot be evaluated solely by whether a surveillance technology can produce investigative leads. The City must also consider the scale of information collected about people who are not suspected of wrongdoing, who can access that information, how it can be shared, and whether safeguards can realistically prevent misuse.
Policies and audits cannot eliminate the underlying problem: ALPR systems are designed to collect and make searchable information about the movements of thousands of people as they go about their daily lives. Changing vendors would not resolve that concern. Replacing Flock with another company offering substantially the same surveillance technology would simply recreate the same fundamental risks under a different name.
Santa Ana has an opportunity to take a clear position that protecting public safety does not require the routine surveillance of everyone who drives through our city.
We therefore call on the Santa Ana City Council to:
City of Santa Ana," Santa Ana City Council Meeting- May 6, 2025 ( English)," You Tube, May 6, 2025, video, 5: 10- 49, https:// www. voutube. com/ watch? v= ii) LD9du SKs& t=18649s( accessed August 21, 2026) 2 Ben Camacho," Fusion Center Ran Flock Searches on Behalf of Feds, Santa Ana Records Show," Inadvertent, August 18, 2026, https:// www. inadvertent. news/ D/ fusion- center- ran- flock- searches( accessed August 21, 2026). 3 Ibid.
Terminate the City of Santa Ana' s contract with Flock Safety, Motorola Solutions, and remove all Automated License Plate Readers ( ALPRs) from the City, regardless of vendor.
We urge the City Council to act decisively and ensure that Santa Ana does not continue investing in surveillance infrastructure that compromises residents' privacy and exposes our communities to unnecessary risks.
Sincerely,
Chispa
Chicanos Unidos
Arab American Civic Council
Underground Grit
Orange County Communities Organized for Responsible Development( OCCORD) Viet Rainbow of Orange County ( VROC)
Community Service Organization ( CSO) Orange County
OC Action
ACLU Southern California
California Immigrant Policy Center( CIPC)
Union de Barrio