Posted on 12/30/2025 2:06:38 PM PST by Libloather
A retired San Francisco schoolteacher is accusing the city of running a “Big Brother” surveillance dragnet that illegally tracks everyday drivers.
Michael Moore, a retired public school teacher, filed a federal class-action lawsuit Monday alleging sweeping Fourth Amendment violations.
Moore says the city’s Flock license-plate reader system unlawfully monitors his movements as he drives to stores, his sons’ schools and family gatherings — all without a warrant or probable cause.
San Francisco has installed roughly 450 to nearly 500 Flock cameras along major roadways, making it “functionally impossible” to drive anywhere in the city without having your license plate photographed, logged, and stored in an AI-powered database, according to the complaint.
Flock operates a centralized nationwide database collecting more than 1 billion license-plate reads each month across over 5,000 communities, potentially allowing law enforcement agencies — including those outside San Francisco — to track residents’ movements.
The lawsuit, first reported by the San Francisco Standard, alleges the cameras create a detailed, long-term record of drivers’ movements, associations, and routines, all without a warrant.
Any SFPD officer, the suit claims, can access the database after watching a short training video, with no requirement to show probable cause and little monitoring of how searches are used.
San Francisco police have already acknowledged that out-of-state agencies, including departments in Texas and Georgia, accessed the city’s license plate data, with some searches tied to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, allegedly violating California law and the city’s own sanctuary policies.
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This isn’t Mike Stone’s San Francisco
That was a great show.
“Surveillance cameras are primarily aimed at basically law-abiding citizens. The government will find ways to stomp on you and keep you in a state of fear.”
That’s it.
Flock cameras also have facial recognition.
Flock isnt the answer. Actually arresting and jailing criminals is the answer. Big Brother police state isn’t what the answer is.
“Flock cameras also have facial recognition.”
I don’t think they advertise that, but it wouldn’t surprise me. I also wonder if they take pictures of the front of cars - they claim to not do that, but...
Flock is a private company exercising its Amendment I rights.
San Francisco pays the company money for information.
The federal government has long paid for Washington Post subscriptions.
Probably 20% of American single-family homes have surveillance systems.
Brown University has about 800 at work as I recollect.
I thought there was no right to an expectation of privacy in public. That’s why you can video anything or anyone you can see in public.
The average American commits 3 felonies a day. The average American has no idea the felony behavior is occurring. The system has create a system of laws to punish those who believe they are law abiding.
Hence, cameras are everywhere and you better behave brother.
He doesn’t need to sue, just say that ICE is using the system to catch illegals and denying them their due process and SF will immediately turn it off.
How can you comfortably take a crap on the sidewalk knowing there are cameras all over.
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