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Cattle facing a row of Flock camera poles on a night highway

H.R. 10221 · September 2, 2026 · Pronoun: Pappaw

FLOCK OFF

Federal taxpayers should not be forced to fund the surveillance state.

Tap the poles. Flock them off.

Cameras flocked off

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5 still live on this road

Hunt high score

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Liberty points, porch rules

Co-sponsors

8

6 original · 8 current · snapshot

What the bill actually does

No federal funds for the surveillance stack.

To prohibit the use of Federal funds for covered camera systems and associated components, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Thomas Massie (R–KY-4). Referred to House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on September 2, 2026. Unofficial HQ — the paper is real; this app is not the House clerk.

  • Automatic license-plate readers that extract plate numbers or vehicle characteristics with machine learning and ship the data to a remote or cloud system.
  • Biometric capture of faces, voiceprints, fingerprints, iris or retinal scans, and gait patterns — processed and transmitted the same way.
  • The associated stack: hardware, software, algorithms, databases, networks, cloud services, and analytics platforms that store, match, query, or share that data.

Co-sponsors · clerk snapshot

  • Eric BurlisonR–MO
  • Ro KhannaD–CA
  • Victoria SpartzR–IN
  • Paul A. GosarR–AZ
  • Chip RoyR–TX
  • Lauren BoebertR–CO
  • Mark HarrisR–NC
  • Pat HarriganR–NC

On the wire · 2026-09-17

What moved

Clerk first. Office press second. News last. Nothing here is a House vote.

    2026-09-17 · H.R. 10221

    Supported · clerk

    Still introduced. Eight names. No markup.

    Congress.gov: 8 current cosponsors, 6 original, 0 withdrawn. Mark Harris (R–NC-8) signed 3 Sep. Pat Harrigan (R–NC-10) signed 14 Sep. Latest action remains 2 Sep — referred to House Oversight and Government Reform. Status: Introduced. One text version.

    Open source

    2026-09-17 · 404 Media / WIRED

    Reporting · not the clerk

    One ripped-down camera, 1.6 million images.

    A group calling itself stegan0gram pulled a Flock unit, copied storage, and handed files to 404 Media and WIRED. Recovered logs: ~50,200 vehicles and ~1.6 million images over 21 days, plus software that detects people and bicycles. Flock says it does not run face recognition. Flock called the removal illegal. This is reporting, not a clerk filing.

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    2026-09-15 · Separate bill

    Supported · office paper

    No FLOCK Act — highway money, not Massie's paper.

    Reps. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D–IL) and Michael Cloud (R–TX) announced the No Federal License-Plate Observation and Camera Keeping Act. Office press (15 Sep) says it is introduced. It would withhold 10% of Title 23 §104(b) highway funds from states that do not limit ALPR to tolls, stolen cars, missing persons, felony warrants, or felony-vehicle investigations. Two-year clock; cuts described as starting FY 2029 if enacted this year. No H.R. number located on Congress.gov as of 17 Sep. Not a substitute for H.R. 10221.

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    2026-09-16 · Missouri

    Reporting · not the clerk

    Gov. Kehoe signs EO 26-18 on plate readers.

    Reporting: 30-day delete for most plate/vehicle data at state agencies and state-funded locals; vendors barred from selling or commercializing Missouri-generated data; use limited to criminal-justice and lifesaving purposes. Executive order, not a statute and not H.R. 10221.

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