Letter Sent to Monterey County Board of Supervisors the day after Overwhelming Community Rejection of Flock Automated License Plate Readers (ALPR)
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POP-SIS
Protecting Our Privacy – Stop Illegal Surveillance
PO Box 100, Carmel-by-the-Sea, Ca 93921 — 831-624-6500
Subject: Board of Supervisors, for September 22 Agenda Item
regarding Flock Systems August 25, 2026
Ordinance Request: Prohibition on Use & Retention of License Plate Reader Data
Hello Supervisors,
Excellent, even Eloquent, Comments by our community – Overwhelmingly Rejecting Flock Cameras and License Plate Readers generally.
We diplomatically encourage you to avoid Privacy Litigation & Join Monterey County Residents Rejecting Flock systems.
POP-SIS requests you immediately Place on an Agenda:
An Ordinance that includes :
Finding: California’s Constitution Declares Every California Citizen has an explicit Right to Privacy.
Finding: California’s Constitution provides No Governmental Right to Surveillance.
Finding: The US-CIA defines Surveillance as a repeated observations of a person or a vehicle.
Therefore:
1) Monterey County agencies Shall Not use, sell, share, or transfer License Plate Reader information or equipment to capture or store such data, consistent with Senate Bill 34.
2) Data Deletion: Monterey County Department Heads —
Shall immediately and permanently delete any and all License Plate Reader data in County control, or ever used by Monterey County.
Shall immediately sever any contractual arrangements with License Plate Reader businesses such as Flock, since such Contracts are Void for violating California’s Constitutional Right to Privacy.
Shall Report to the Board of Supervisors their Department’s Compliance with this ordinance monthly until completed.
3) Penalties
Failure to fully Comply with this ordinance within six months from the date of this ordinance adoption:
a) Shall be a Misdemeanor and may be enforced by a citizen as a Private Attorney General.
b) A County Employee Using License Plate Reader Data in any manner shall be a felony, enforced by District Attorney.
4) Any person or business repeatedly using equipment to record specific people outside of a public meeting, without their informed consent is guilty of the crime of surveillance, punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than one year, or by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by both that fine and imprisonment.
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* Please immediately Agendize a Request for County Counsel to prepare an ordinance to include the above provisions.
Thank you
David Dilworth, CEO
References:
From Penal Code § 646.9 PC – California Stalking Law
Full report available at https://www.auditor.ca.gov/reports/2019-118/index.html