DeFlock Stars 2: Six Activists on How to Fight Flock in Your Town | Hide & Speak

Streaming live on August 15 at 4pm ET, we're diving deep into the fight against automated license plate readers with a six-group panel from the DeFlock and anti-ALPR movement: Paul from DeFlock UA, James from No Flock in Troy, Pope of Wall St from DeFlock Connecticut, plus organizers from DeFlock Tulsa, DeFlock Dahlonega, and Flock OUT of El Cerrito. Brought to you by vp.net/, the only verifiable zero-trust VPN. We get into what actually flips a city council vote, how residents verify a police department's claim that federal data sharing is switched off, what happens when a city cancels Flock and signs with a competitor, and what one person with no group and no experience can do on a Monday morning. This episode lands the day before DeFlock's National Week of Action Against ALPRs, which runs August 16 to 22 with more than seventy-five cities signed up. Each of these six groups is at a different point on the same road: El Cerrito's cameras come down between July 30 and August 18, Troy's mayor declared a public safety emergency to keep a contract alive, Connecticut watched Windsor kill sixteen cameras and Killingworth pull all four inside about a month, and Upper Arlington quietly went from six cameras to twenty. We'll be comparing notes across all six on tactics, records requests, failures, and what winning actually looks like in a town of thirty-six thousand versus a state capital. Whether you already know what an ALPR is or you just found out your town has them, this episode is built to send you into the week with something to do. 🎙️ ABOUT OUR GUESTS: DeFlock UA, No Flock in Troy, DeFlock Connecticut, DeFlock Tulsa, DeFlock Dahlonega, and Flock OUT of El Cerrito Six local groups organizing against ALPR surveillance in six very different places: an Ohio suburb, a Michigan city, a whole New England state, an Oklahoma metro, a small Georgia college town, and a Bay Area city that already won. Some of them organize under their own names and some deliberately do not. What they share is that all of this work happens in public meetings, records requests, and conversations with neighbors, and every one of them started without knowing how any of it worked. 🔥 KEY TOPICS IN THIS EPISODE Winning in El Cerrito: What it feels like to watch the last camera come down during the national week of action, and what a group does after it wins. The Emergency Declaration: How a mayor's public safety emergency kept a Flock contract running in Troy, and what the room was like that night. Search Logs and Protest: What happened in Tulsa when EFF's records showed police ran at least 38 searches containing the word protest. The Connecticut Cascade: Sixteen cameras in Windsor, four in Killingworth, and pause requests from the Senate majority leader and the governor, all inside about a month. Twenty Cameras, No Vote: How Upper Arlington tripled its camera count, and how a resident verifies a police claim that federal sharing is disabled. Flock or ALPRs: Whether canceling Flock and signing with Axon changes anything, and where each group draws the line on what it's actually asking for. Tactics That Worked and Flopped: The one sentence that changed a neighbor's mind, the thing that completely failed, and the tactic every group should steal. Starting From Zero: What someone does Monday morning if they live in a town with cameras and no group, and how to find out whether one already exists nearby. Don't forget to Like, Subscribe, and hit the Bell 🔔 to stay notified! 🔒 BROUGHT TO YOU BY VP.NET 🔒 Hide & Speak is brought to you by vp.net, the only VPN that you don't have to trust, because it can't spy on you: httpsvp.net/ALSO SPONSORED BY BMAIL ✉️ bmail is the only verifiably private email: end-to-end encrypted, zero-knowledge, and architecturally incapable of reading your messages. httpsbmail.ag/ONNECT WITH THE PANEL DeFlock UA Website: https:deflockua.org/ock in Troy Instagram:   / nowww.instagram.com/noflockintroy/ck Connecticut Instagram:   / dewww.instagram.com/deflockct/ck Tulsa Instagram:   / dewww.instagram.com/deflocktulsa/ck Tulsa Petition: https:change.org/deflocktulsack Dahlonega Instagram:   / dewww.instagram.com/deflockdahlonega/ OUT of El Cerrito Instagram:   / flwww.instagram.com/flockoutelcerrito/lock #FlockSafety #ALPR #MassSurveillance #HideAndSpeak