Nithya Raman
Role at the time: Los Angeles City Councilmember and 2026 mayoral candidate
Statement summary
Calls for Los Angeles to end its Flock relationship over privacy, civil-liberties and immigration risks.
“LA should cut ties with Flock Safety.”
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.
Archived copy (opens in a new tab)Why we used 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.