Loud Voices: Shorewood Takes On $7.5B Corp.

It started with a letter that flew under the radar: A small bedroom community taking on a $7.5B national company with strong ties to law enforcement, and thanks to determined residents, bagging the spy camera and chasing it out of town. A true David and Goliath story.

Flock: Surveillance Without Accountability?

Since finding out the impact of Flock Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs) in our cities, SCA has dug into a black hole of surveillance information. Flock sells itself as a friend of law enforcement and a safety advocate. It often contradicts its own guidelines. Intentional or not, those contradictions cause questions and distrust.

Flock Cameras = FBI Cameras?

If your neighborhood has Flock Safety cameras mounted at intersections in your city, the FBI may soon be watching every vehicle that passes through, in near real time, without a warrant.

Three Things

Here are three new, quick and informative articles for readers this week: - Lights Out - Monarch Butterflies - Bird Nests

Surveillance Camera In The Bag

This article describes how a handful of vocal residents disrupted the existence of a Flock surveillance system they initially knew nothing about—and, once they understood it, firmly opposed.

3 Things for You

Here are three new and informative articles for readers this week. - Ice Out: Welcoming Spring to Lake Minnetonka - Xcel Energy site - Ash Borer: A Fatal Invitation

Three Things For This Week

- Ring/Flock Partnership Cancelled - Regional Trail Tree Removal - Squirrels!

Safety or Surveillance?

Flock license-plate cameras are watching us. We did not ask for them, didn’t vote for them, and most residents did not know they were being installed. Now, we live with our movements being watched 24/7.

Three Things For You

- Dangerous Trees - The Red Fox - Snowplow Karma!

3 New Things

- A Mouse in Your House? - Freeman Park Transition - A Stunning Natural DIsplay

A Few ‘Loud’ Voices

Concerns about Flock license plate reading cameras’ targeting capabilities and data use are mounting. Flock uses license-plate–reading cameras and AI at intersections in Excelsior, Greenwood and Shorewood to collect data on every passing vehicle. This includes your vehicle, or your teen’s vehicle.

Three Things to Start 2026

- Ride in a Snow Plow! - January is Planting Time - Superior, Our Inland Sea

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