We built this for two small towns in Marin. Then we made every piece reusable, because the cameras are in 5,000 towns and the playbook is the same in all of them. No permission needed. No money asked. Take it.
The cameras are a vendor contract. In most towns a five-person council, a manager, and a chief control it. Sometimes it was never even voted on. Find your five: they're on your town's website.
Small councils hear from almost no one, so a few dozen on-the-record letters is a groundswell. Our rule of thumb: about 1% of population, minimum 20. Sedona flipped with 12 people at one meeting.
Every contract has a renewal date and a termination clause. A public records request gets both. That date is your deadline, and "don't renew" is the easiest vote a council ever takes.
Every tool on this site works for any town, today. The Marin pages are the working example.
The action page: your council, a demanding constitutional letter, a live counter toward your town's goal, and a share loop.
act.html →A ready-to-send public records request for the contract, the sharing list, and the audit logs. This is how you find your renewal date.
pra.html →EFF, ACLU, model ordinances, litigation, journalists, the towns that already won. Sourced and organized.
toolkit.html →Cameras, portal stats, the reporting, the paper trail, who decides. We generate one for your town from a single data file.
belvedere.html →The day-on-the-map animation, the machine walkthrough, the robot cards, the brand kit. Attention-getters that respect your neighbors' intelligence.
tiburon-day.html →Every claim sourced: what Flock does, what it keeps forever, what the courts and journalists have found.
resources.html →