Nithya Raman says Los Angeles should cut ties with Flock Safety
Nithya RamanLos Angeles City Councilmember and 2026 mayoral candidate
Calls for Los Angeles to end its Flock relationship over privacy, civil-liberties and immigration risks.
“LA should cut ties with Flock Safety.”
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Should Flock-style license-plate surveillance networks exist?
Networked automated license-plate readers record passing vehicles and let agencies search or share travel records across locations. Candidates and officials disagree over whether to prohibit these networks, keep them with legal limits, or defend their use for investigations. This tracker records attributable positions on that choice, including proposals that would affect only public funding or data access.
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Bluesky post by Los Angeles Councilmember Nithya Raman, the first of a nine-post thread, calling for Los Angeles to end its relationship with Flock Safety.
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Raman, a Los Angeles councilmember running for mayor in the November 3, 2026 runoff, posted a nine-post thread on Bluesky on July 30, 2026 about the Los Angeles Police Department's Flock contract.
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The thread says CalMatters found that LAPD searched license plate data on behalf of federal immigration agencies, and says LAPD must answer questions before entering into any contracts.
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Why this label?
The reference point is whether networked license-plate reader systems such as Flock should exist and be used. Raman posts that Los Angeles "should cut ties with Flock Safety" and says the company's readers pose risks to privacy, civil liberties and immigrant communities while LAPD renegotiates a surveillance network, which rejects the system outright, so we labeled it Condemned and placed it at Ban on the remedy ladder, since she asks the city to end the relationship and names no replacement. The closest competing label is Mixed or conditional. It loses because the thread asks for an end to the relationship rather than conditions for continued use.
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The Dispute Index. "Nithya Raman says Los Angeles should cut ties with Flock Safety". First published: 2026-10-09. Last updated: 2026-10-09. https://disputeindex.com/events/5237-calls-for-los-angeles-to-end-its-flock