Deflock Corona is a volunteer coalition of Corona residents who believe that surveillance decisions affecting an entire community deserve a community vote. We are not affiliated with any political party. We are not anti-police. We are pro-accountability.
This coalition started with a 15-year Corona resident who noticed Flock Safety cameras appearing along the route from their home to their children's school. Every morning, their family's movements were being logged into a private corporate database run by a company with documented ties to federal immigration enforcement — and the city had never asked residents whether they wanted that.
That resident has 20 years of enterprise IT security experience, including work as a Chief Network Architect for Fortune 500 companies. They understood exactly what they were looking at.
What followed was a systematic investigation of Corona's contract with Flock Safety using California Public Records Act requests. What those records revealed went well beyond a routine technology procurement: a contract silent on data retention, an amendment signed without a council vote or legal review, and a $1.5 million drone and real-time surveillance fusion platform approved 5–0 in April 2025 as a consent-calendar item — without a single member of the public speaking on it.
The first public comment speech went viral — over 500,000 views. The coalition grew. The investigation deepened. This site is the result.
Full cancellation of the Flock Safety contract and removal of all cameras. Short of that: a full public audit of all queries, a council vote before any renewal or expansion, and explicit data retention and federal access restrictions written into the contract itself.
Journalists are welcome to use any material on this site. All findings are sourced to primary documents available via CPRA. For interviews, background, or document access, contact us directly.
Corona's governing PSA contains zero language on retention periods, deletion schedules, or federal access restrictions. Source: CPRA C000108-020325.
On April 16, 2025, the City Council approved a $1,528,662 drone-as-first-responder contract with Flock 5–0. It was placed on the consent calendar, and no member of the public spoke. The same vote eliminated five vacant dispatcher positions to help pay for it. Sources: City Council minutes, April 16, 2025 (Item 7.1); CPRA C000352-032326.
Oxnard PD's "California only" portal setting was overridden by Flock's back-end. Federal agencies queried data without city knowledge. 5M queries on 19 cameras in 2025.
Press contact: brett@deflock-corona.org · Full investigation: The Flock Files · Evidence: Evidence File
This changes when enough residents show up. At meetings, at city hall, in public comment, and in conversation with their neighbors.
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