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Every meeting we read, on its own date. The bright ones are where an official raised it.

01 — First meeting where it came up

Oakland · Privacy Advisory Commission37.81° N · 122.27° W

November 6, 2025

The first meeting in our year where an official raised it. It may not be the first time it came up.

Where an official raised it.

By October 8, 2026, an official we identify by voice had raised license-plate cameras (Flock) at 15 of the 229 meetings we read, in 5 public bodies.

meetings where an official raised it

What officials said · Dec 16, 2025

City Council

“First, Flock shall not ever enable a national lookup feature capability for the city to access or be enabled by any law enforcement entity.”— Charlene Wang, Council member · City Council

What officials said · May 12, 2026

Public Safety

“Can you document the— how Flock has led to the decrease in crimes and aided the police force in solving some of these issues or being able to have a real-time response?”— Carroll Fife, Member · Public Safety Committee

What officials said · Jul 14, 2026

Public Safety

“I mean, they should be able to have drones that can fly in bad weather technology. We can go to the moon, come back, you know, do all this right along with the flock cameras, can’t they?”— Ken Houston, Council member · Public Safety Committee

Oakland city hall · October 24, 2025 to October 8, 2026

License-plate cameras (Flock)

meetings we read where an official raised it
15
meetings we read in all, each a faint light
229

Every dot opens its meeting video; every remark plays at the second it was said. All the meetings are drawn at City Hall, one wedge for each public body: the map shows when, not where.

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Illegal dumping came up in nearly 3 in 10 Oakland public meetings and nearly 1 in 38 in San Francisco

229 meetings read (30 of them school-board meetings, also on our school-board site) from 18 public bodies · Oct 24, 2025 – Oct 8, 2026 · Play the clip

Oct 24, 2025 – Oct 8, 2026100 hoursOakland’s Police Commission and Measure NN oversight commission met for 100 hours. The full City Council met at least 82.Sources: Police Commission, Measure NN commission, City Council
Oct 28, 2025 – Oct 8, 202660 peopleOakland’s two biggest crowds came on the days its encampment policy was on the council’s agenda, and about 60 people spoke on it on Dec 2, after the council pulled it from that day’s votePlay the clip Oct 28, 2025 – Oct 8, 202630%Flock license-plate cameras came up, said by anyone, at 30% of Oakland’s public meetings and 4.4% of San Francisco’sPlay the clip
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Newest meeting we’ve read: Oct 8, Police CommissionListed after it, not read yet (video listings through Oct 20): 7

Posted meetings we foundA partial list, from the city calendars we checked on Oct 29. Not every body posts where we look.
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