Three Things You Can Do
Sign the petition. File the records request. Show up at the meeting. That's the exact path five Arizona towns walked to get Flock out. Do all three.
1. Sign the Petition
We, the undersigned residents and neighbors of Graham County, are concerned about the Flock Safety surveillance cameras operating on our roads. These cameras log every vehicle that passes and feed a national network that thousands of outside agencies can search. Across Arizona, that same network has been misused: one Phoenix-area department ran over 12,000 searches, an officer logged an ethnic slur as a search reason, and agencies used it to track people at protests.
We are not asking our police to stop solving crimes. We are asking our local government to be transparent about a powerful tool bought in our name. Our goal is to get these cameras removed, as Sedona, Flagstaff, South Tucson, Cochise County, and Sierra Vista already have. At minimum, if they stay, we call on the City of Safford and the Graham County Board of Supervisors to:
- Release the Flock network audit, the full log of every outside agency that has searched our cameras' data, and the stated reason for each search.
- Disable federal and out-of-state data sharing by default, so our local data is not silently fed into ICE or other federal systems.
- Hold a public hearing before any Flock contract is renewed, with the audit results presented to residents first.
- Adopt a written ALPR use policy with real penalties for misuse.
Show us who is watching. That is not too much to ask in a free country.
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2. File a Records Request
Arizona's public records law (A.R.S. § 39-121) gives any person the right to inspect public records. Flock search logs are public records. No lawyer, no reason needed. The most useful document is the Network Audit, the log of every outside agency that searched our cameras' data, the same report that exposed abuse in Dayton, Bend, and San Francisco. File it with both custodians:
City of Safford — for Safford PD cameras
- City Clerk's Office (records custodian), 717 W. Main St., Safford AZ 85546 · Mailing: P.O. Box 272, Safford AZ 85548
- Clerk phone: 928-432-4000 · Safford PD records: 928-432-4100
- Records info: cityofsafford.us (Records section)
Graham County — for Sheriff's Office cameras
- Graham County Sheriff's Office, 921 W. Thatcher Blvd., Safford AZ 85546
- Phone: 928-428-3141 · Sheriff P.J. Allred
- Records Division: graham.az.gov/247/Records
Neither office publishes a records-request email, so file by mail or in person, or call the clerk's line to ask where to send it. We don't list an email we can't confirm.
Copy this, fill in the three bracketed lines, and send it:
3. Show Up at the Meeting
A signature is a number. A neighbor at the podium is a problem the council has to answer. These two bodies hold the Flock contracts, their meetings are public, and you have the right to speak.
Safford City Council
- When: usually 2nd & 4th Monday, 6:00 PM (holiday bumps to Tuesday; some months vary, check the agenda)
- Where: Safford Library Program Room, 808 S. 7th Ave.
- Agendas: cityofsafford.us → Agenda Center · "Citizen Comments on Non-Agenda Items" is your slot
Graham County Board of Supervisors
- When: 1st & 3rd Monday (holiday bumps to Tuesday)
- Where: Graham County General Services Building, Assembly Room, 921 W. Thatcher Blvd.
- Agendas: graham.az.gov → Meetings and Agendas · Questions: 928-428-3250
Always confirm the date on the official agenda before you go, schedules shift around holidays and budget season.
A Two-Minute Script You Can Read
My name is ___ and I live in ___. The Flock cameras on our roads feed a national network thousands of outside agencies can search. On that same network, one Phoenix-area department ran over twelve thousand searches, an officer logged an ethnic slur as a reason, and Arizona agencies used it to track people at protests. I'm not asking our police to stop solving crimes. I'm asking this body to request our network audit and hold a public hearing before the Flock contract is renewed. Show us who is watching. Thank you.
How to Make It Land
- Bring receipts, not vibes. Name the Scottsdale searches, the Glendale slur, the Tempe protest searches. Real Arizona facts beat "I heard."
- Keep it to one ask. Request the audit and a hearing before renewal. One clear request lands harder than five.
- Don't go alone. Three neighbors at the same meeting is a pattern the council notices. One is an anecdote.
- Back the police and still say no. Flagstaff did exactly that. "No reflection on the department" disarms the room.
More Tools
You're not alone in this. The national movement has maps, model bills, and organizers: deflock.me (camera map), the ACLU "Get the Flock Out" toolkit (model bills, organizer directory), and DeFlock Tucson, the Arizona chapter that helped push South Tucson to cancel.