{"id":259008,"date":"2026-05-29T14:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T18:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/a-climate-of-fear-and-mistrust-petition-urges-humboldt-sheriff-board-of-supervisors-to-cancel-flock-safety-contract-amid-privacy-concerns-lost-coast-outpost\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T15:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T19:20:12","slug":"a-climate-of-fear-and-mistrust-petition-urges-humboldt-sheriff-board-of-supervisors-to-cancel-flock-safety-contract-amid-privacy-concerns-lost-coast-outpost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/a-climate-of-fear-and-mistrust-petition-urges-humboldt-sheriff-board-of-supervisors-to-cancel-flock-safety-contract-amid-privacy-concerns-lost-coast-outpost\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;A Climate of Fear and Mistrust&#8217;: Petition Urges Humboldt Sheriff, Board of Supervisors to Cancel Flock Safety Contract Amid Privacy Concerns | Lost Coast Outpost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lostcoastoutpost.com\/2026\/may\/29\/flock-petition\/\">&#8216;A Climate of Fear and Mistrust&#8217;: Petition Urges Humboldt Sheriff, Board of Supervisors to Cancel Flock Safety Contract Amid Privacy Concerns | Lost Coast Outpost<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lostcoastoutpost.com\/2026\/may\/29\/flock-petition\/\">https:\/\/lostcoastoutpost.com\/2026\/may\/29\/flock-petition\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-29 14:10:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"lostcoastoutpost.com\">lostcoastoutpost.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"featurephoto-caption\">An automated license plate reader (ALPR) camera. | Image courtesy Flock Safety.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; \">###<\/p>\n<p>PREVIOUSLY<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; \">###<\/p>\n<p>A petition making the rounds on social media is calling on the Humboldt County Sheriff\u2019s Office to end its contract with Flock Safety and remove all automated license plate-reading (ALPR) cameras from the county\u2019s jurisdiction.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The petition \u2014 linked here \u2014 argues that the ALPR cameras \u201craise significant privacy concerns\u201d and contribute \u201cto a climate of fear and mistrust.\u201d As of this writing, the petition has garnered 732 signatures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have the power to protect our communities\u2019 privacy while still ensuring their safety,\u201d the petition states. \u201cInstead of relying on invasive technologies, we should advocate for community-based safety programs, engagement with residents, and invest in smart city planning that encourages transparency and accountability.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The push to remove Flock cameras comes several months after an Outpost investigation revealed that the Humboldt County Sheriff\u2019s Office had allowed outside law enforcement agencies to conduct hundreds of thousands of monthly searches through the county\u2019s ALPR data, often without obtaining legally required information for the search.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Data logs reviewed by the Outpost last year revealed that hundreds of searches by local and state law enforcement agencies referenced federal agencies, including Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which is a direct violation of SB 34. (A CalMatters investigation found that the law is routinely violated by law enforcement agencies across the state.)<\/p>\n<p>Sheriff William Honsal tells the\u00a0Outpost\u00a0that its data is now shared with only a small subset of police departments that use the Flock system. See his response to the Outpost\u2019s questions, below.<\/p>\n<p>The Humboldt County Sheriff\u2019s Office implemented the county\u2019s ALPR program in April 2024, which consists of eight \u201cfull-time\u201d cameras and two portable \u201cflex\u201d ALPR cameras&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lostcoastoutpost.com\/2026\/may\/29\/flock-petition\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;A Climate of Fear and Mistrust&#8217;: Petition Urges Humboldt Sheriff, Board of Supervisors to Cancel&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":259009,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/lostcoastoutpost.com\/loco-media\/cache\/5c\/a6\/5ca61181eede2b3b3dbd557f7a6b4fca.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259008"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259010,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259008\/revisions\/259010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}