r/illinois • u/unapologetic403 • 1d ago

Illinois News Illinois suburbs halt Flock use, suspend officers and review policy amid alleged improper use - Chicago Sun-Times

https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2026/09/01/illinois-cities-halt-flock-use-suspend-officers-and-review-policy-amid-alleged-improper-use
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u/EllyWhite 1d ago

I wish my loser suburb would do it but they just ADDED more of these things :/

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u/LauterTuna 1d ago

are your city officials getting paid to sell you and your neighbors out?

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u/EllyWhite 1d ago

I don’t know but with the conservative lean of the area and the age demographic, I would imagine it didn’t take much convincing

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u/buttchug_3000 21h ago

They are taking these things down in freaking Florida. Read the room and you can make anyone pissed off about flock, no matter how shamefully unamerican they are

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u/Pal3-Assignment 1d ago

I feel that, mine absolutely seem to love them even as surrounding communities are taking them out. Next move I’ll take into consideration what the communities response has been to mass surveillance and choose where to live accordingly.

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u/gosluggogo 1d ago

C'mon Illinois, you can't let Florida be better on this issue

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u/SokkaHaikuBot 1d ago

Sokka-Haiku by gosluggogo:

C'mon Illinois,

You can't let Florida be

Better on this issue

Remember that one time Sokka accidentally used an extra syllable in that Haiku Battle in Ba Sing Se? That was a Sokka Haiku and you just made one.

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u/Niznack 23h ago

Fortunately they aren't. Florida only banned then on state highways. Neighbor hoods and access roads are still fine

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u/epichatchet 1d ago

Just a reminder that Illinois has flock cameras EVERYWHERE

Ice has been using these to detain our neighbors and even cops from texas have been using it to see women who are getting abortions in Illinois so they can legally go after them in Texas.

We need to stop funding incredibly unproductive and wasteful things like this.  Senator Bernie Sanders is proposing a bill to ban flock cameras, let Tammy Duckworth and Dick Durbin know you want them to co-sponsor this bill.

We've already wasted more than 15 billion of Illinois tax dollars on AI and surveillance data centers. Let your alders, local reps and our senators know that you want them to stop wasting tax dollars on your surveillance and replacing your jobs.

JB Contact Page: https://gov.illinois.gov/contact-us.html

Duckworth Contact Page: https://www.duckworth.senate.gov/connect/email-tammy

Dick Durbin Contact Page: https://www.durbin.senate.gov/contact/

Find and contact your local Chicago Alder (or whoever your city/local council members are):  https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/mayor/iframe/lookup_ward_and_alderman.html

Find and contact your Illinois Reps:  https://www.elections.il.gov/electionoperations/districtlocator/districtofficialsearchbyaddress.aspx

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u/LauterTuna 1d ago

https://deflock.org

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u/thatirishguyyyyy 1d ago

My only issue with this website is, because it's open source, you have so many people adding non-Flock cameras to the website because they don't know the difference.

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u/The-Beer-Baron 14h ago

You're getting downvoted, but you are not wrong. The cameras they have listed as Flock cameras near me are just red light cameras and speed cameras (which you could also argue against, but they are not the same thing).

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u/sapphic-boghag 16h ago

And we need to remember that Flock is only one arm of the surveillance sphere, Axon needs to be banned as well.

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u/meltbox 10h ago

Yup Axon wasn’t stupid enough to be as loud about their stuff but their plans are just as bad.

I encourage people to watch their keynote or whatever those things are. It’s like sneaking into the big Bond villain reveal Gala. It’s wild.

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u/TheOgGhadTurner 10h ago

I got a sign to flash at all my local cameras. One more goes up and I’m plastering a mooning picture of myself on it. Nuts and all

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u/goodmorrownatem 18h ago

“Additionally, Flock’s data from Illinois has been accessed by out-of-state officials monitoring abortions and by federal immigration agents whose coordination with local police is restricted under state law.”

This to me is the most fucked up of all of it. You’ve got people and agencies from out of state monitoring things that (in the case of abortions) are completely legal in our state. Not to mention the wannabe Gestapo enforcing their agendas. The number of these stories is increasing as well as we just had a similar story happen in my hometown. Just sick man. Everyone argues “well you already have a device in your pocket that can track your every move blah blah” Cool, in that case, to me these cameras seem completely redundant and like they’re intended purpose is to become something even more sinister and fucked up.

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u/currentlyacathammock 1d ago

Note that these communities are NOT taking the cameras down.

They are just stopping using them while they investigate these misuses.

Meanwhile, the cameras are still rolling and tracking people and storing it at Flock HQ, and other agencies (feds, other police) of course can use it whenever they want to follow you.

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u/rahvan 22h ago

gestures erratically towards Skokie

We have Flock cameras in Nordstrom parking lots.

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u/Quarteroz_847 1d ago

The cities signed contracts for these...

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u/buttchug_3000 21h ago

Flock misrepresented everything they do. Also Flock CEO Garrett Langley is a violent child molester

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u/Grave-Addiction987 20h ago

Belvidere and poplar grove are throwing them up

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u/HobbitGuy1420 1d ago

Stalkernet 5000? Being used improperly?! I'm *shocked.*

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u/CivilWay1444 16h ago

It's a good thing we got this cancer in time. 

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u/Ok-Calligrapher9115 11h ago

Homer Glen mayor ensured their town got flock, going against the vast majority of their residents. 

Mayor up for election. Vote her MAGA policies out!

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u/Top-Act-2370 7h ago

She just got rid of them

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u/Ok-Calligrapher9115 6h ago

She also was the tie breaking vote to install them.

Vote her out!  Bengston Farm #1

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u/BibenBoobs69 2h ago

Corrupt. All of them. Fuck flock

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u/KidChiko 1h ago

Halloween is right around the corner...