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Collage of Flock cameras

Get the Flock Out

ALPR companies like Flock Safety are quietly creating a nationwide mass surveillance system. These cameras are in North Dakota, tracking, logging, and sharing our movements without a warrant. But North Dakotans are increasingly speaking up against these creepy cameras — and your community could be the next to choose privacy over mass surveillance.
News & Commentary
A solar-powered Flock camera is mounted on a pole beside a busy multi-lane road, with cars and a utility truck driving through the intersection in the background.

We need to pump the brakes on the use of Flock’s mass surveillance license plate readers

Cody Schuler, advocacy manager of ACLU of North Dakota, responds to The Forum editorial “We sleep easier because Flock is watching over us.”
Initiative
Graphic that shows a collage of banned or challenged books, like "The Color Purple" "Gender Queer" "Native Son" "James and the Giant Peach" and more.

Banned Books Club

As book challenges and classroom censorship bills spread across the country, we’re fighting back in courts, statehouses, communities, and schools and now with our book club, too.
News & Commentary
Rain falls on a residential street, where a red security sign warns "Cameras in Use 24/7 Security, Criminals Will Be Prosecuted, and flock safety." Cars drive down the wet road past houses, trees, sidewalks, and fences in the background.

How to Fight Deployment of Flock and Other Mass Surveillance License Plate Readers in Your Community

The ACLU provides a range of tactics for communities to stop or limit the use of Flock’s ALPR mass surveillance technology

Press Releases


Martha Rossiter Joins the ACLU of North Dakota as Legal Director

In this role, Rossiter will lead and expand the ACLU’s legal program to provide strategic leadership on both litigation and legal advocacy to advance civil liberties and civil rights in the the state

ACLU and ACLU of North Dakota File Brief in Support of Right to Protest on Public Roads

Standing Rock protesters filed suit in 2019 to challenge the closure of a road that was used as a protest site.

ACLU of North Dakota to Host Liberty & Libations in Mandan Next Week

This community-building is an opportunity to socialize with advocates for civil rights and changemakers in North Dakota.