PRIORITY CAMPAIGNS
DEFLOCK
Do you ever feel like you’re being watched?
Since 2022, the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government (LFUCG) has been in a contract with Flock Safety, a for-profit corporation. Our public funds currently pay for more than 125 Flock cameras throughout Fayette County; these cameras create a “fingerprint” for every single vehicle that drives past them and put that record in a searchable database. It is currently all but impossible to drive from one part of Lexington to another without this company and the government knowing where you went and when.
Police departments across the country say they need this technology to stop car thefts and catch criminals, but the vast majority of people tracked by this system are law-abiding citizens. To make matters worse, Lexington police don’t even own this information about you; Flock does. We have no control over this, and they can do whatever they want with it, including hand it over to ICE or other federal agencies.
We think this is a bad deal for our city and our democracy, and not one that most Lexingtonians would ever agree to if they knew the facts. Deflock the Bluegrass is a new campaign by the Bluegrass Democratic Socialists of America to fight back against this overreach and protect everyone’s right to privacy.