Independent civic briefing
19,000 cities.
50 states.
One comment a day.
There are more than 19,000 incorporated cities, towns, villages, and boroughs in the United States. A city-by-city fight is 19,000 points of change. A state ban is 50. Leave one comment that links the petition on a Flock-related post. One action, together, each day. Any state. Same action.
Today’s action
One comment. Link the petition.
Monday — executive. A governor, attorney general, or DOT order. State roads are not city streets. Then paste the comment below. That is the whole job.
Who else searches
Local cameras feed a network other agencies can search — including federal ones, sometimes without the city knowing. Close the share at the state. Petition: https://orwellday.com/stop-flock-solution/
Same lane, other wording
- Signatures
- 1,642
- Cities & towns
- 19,489
- Mapped cameras
- 137,000
- States
- 50
on file · 2026-09-04
Census 2025
CRS floor · 2026-08
the petition’s target
On-file figures until you refresh. Signatures from the petition page. Camera count from Finding Flock’s crowdsourced map — a floor, not a census. State rows are a retrieved briefing, not a live feed.
The picture
Local to federal. Check to statute.
Two axes, not a vendor map. Jurisdiction: city, county, state, federal. Process: funding, grants, permitting, installation, privacy, legislation. A city contract is not a highway permit. A grant is not a statute.
Jurisdiction
Local
The contract, the consent agenda, the pole. 19,000 of these.
County
Often the first buyer. Often the grant applicant. Not the highway owner.
State
The petition’s target. Statute, DOT dirt, governor, attorney general.
Federal
Who pays from Washington, who searches from Washington, who might forbid both.
Process
Funding
General fund, fees, forfeiture, commissary, insurance add-ons. Follow the invoice.
Grants
JAG, COPS, opioid settlements, retail-crime funds, immigration boards. Eligible uses are a policy choice.
Permitting
State highway, county road, city street, private pole. A permit is not a contract, and it is often revocable.
Installation
Pole attachment, subscription hardware, 30-day removal clocks, as-builts. Public consent is optional until a statute says otherwise.
Privacy
Retention, warrants, audit logs, federal search, stalking, false reads. Vendor blogs are not a statute.
Legislation
Ban the class, require a warrant, cap retention, close sharing, cut the money, make unauthorized installs a crime.
Fifty legislatures
Where the petition lands
3
executive pause27
ALPR statute13
bill this cycle3
local drops5
not retrieved
Empty is a finding. “Not retrieved” means this briefing has no statewide instrument on file — not that nothing happened. A retention statute is not a ban. No state is the default.
FIFTY is an independent civic briefing. It supports Orwell Day’s petition. It is not an official Orwell Day product, not legal advice, and not a live camera registry. Claims are labeled. Empty beats a copied instrument from the wrong state. Signature and camera figures can refresh from public pages; state rows are a retrieved briefing, not a live legislature feed.