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Fitchburg Flock contract Tuesday May 26 📣

Time: 6:30 pm
Where: Frances Huntley-Cooper Council Chambers, 5520 Lacy Road.
What: Fitchburg Common Council Meeting - Vote to Not Renew Flock Contract

You can attend in person or virtually and make a comment in person or virtually. If you need to attend/make a comment remotely, email Scott.Yarbrough@fitchburgwi.gov he's the person that will make sure you're set up with the Zoom link, etc.

You DO NOT need to be a resident of Fitchburg to attend and to make a comment.

You'll have only 3 minutes for your comment. Last time Flock was on the common council agenda, they sent a corp representative to speak on behalf of Flock. Corpos get more than 3 minutes 😅

Written comments aren't read aloud, so they're not as effective as in person/virtual comments.

Evergreen actions

• Connect on one of our lists and get organized with folks fighting mass surveillance
• Tell your friends and start letting people know these cameras even exist - print some zines!
• Contact your local elected folks
• Educate yourself and read some articles about mass surveillance, locally and beyond, and find out what others have been doing to fight all this

Even more ideas

• Contact your local police force that's using Flock cameras and ask them what their policy will be when those cameras are inevitably used by ICE to terrorize our community - and then research what happened in the Twin Cities when people in power had made promises and ICE came in force. [Spoiler alert: promises always get broken in favor of capital and white supremacy. Wonder why that is?]
• More importantly, contact the people who hold the purse strings for that force, and convince them to cancel the Flock contracts, as Verona and the Dane County Board have
• Support local Civilian Control Over Police Surveillance (CCOPS) ordinances and laws
• Support the state constitutional amendment protecting right to privacy
• Support the national ICE Out of Our Faces Act