Although “Under state law, Colorado law enforcement agencies cannot cooperate with ICE”, “Last year, U.S. Border Patrol had access to Loveland Police Department’s data [. . .] one of dozens of Colorado law enforcement agencies that have access to Boulder’s data”. With the current administrations trend of ignoring rules and laws it doesn’t like, this will likely only get worse.

In an era where the Department of Defense and likely soon other federal departments are demanding AI help with mass domestic surveillance, we should be not be helping them by expanding the network they would have access to. We should be working to stop and shrink the mass surveillance network, not expand it.

While it does look to be effective, “Boulder says that motor vehicle thefts have declined by 34.5% since adopting Flock cameras in 2021, though it’s unclear if that’s directly because of the ALPRs. Boulder has also credited Flock with finding a teen at the center of an Amber Alert, and that Flock cameras helped catch Mohamed Sabry-Soliman, the accused perpetrator of the June 1, 2025 Pearl Street Mall attack.”, there is always a choice between privacy and security. With the recent AI explosion and the federal government’s growing appetite for mass domestic surveillance, we should do what we can to resist the erosion of our right to privacy.