76 Flock Safety License Plate Cameras Disabled in Coordinated Anarchist Campaign Targeting Law Enforcement Surveillance Infrastructure
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Anarchist actors confirmed disabling 76 Flock Safety automated license plate reader cameras across Oakland and the East Bay in a coordinated sabotage campaign, citing ICE use of Flock data as the motivating factor. A separate action targeting Flock cameras was claimed in Asheville, North Carolina. No arrests have been reported.
ANALYSIS
Disabling 76 units in a coordinated sweep is not spontaneous. Published communiques describe four distinct methods: spray-painting lenses, cutting wires, smashing housings, and disassembling pole bases entirely. Cameras were thrown in the San Francisco Bay or discarded in trash pickups. The instruction to avoid keeping cameras for parts, because of their GPS trackers, indicates the actors have some operational security awareness.
The explicit ICE framing connects this directly to the anti-enforcement posture driving the broader direct action cycle. Flock cameras feed license plate data to police departments and, according to the communique, are accessed by federal immigration enforcement. That framing positions this as infrastructure denial, not property destruction for its own sake.
The geographic spread to Asheville shows this is not a single-cell Oakland action. The combination of this campaign with the Bushwick ICE windshield smashing and the separate New York ICE vehicle taillights and tires slashing establishes a multi-city pattern of direct action against federal immigration enforcement infrastructure and vehicles.
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