Activist arrested for placing signs on Flock cameras ----- I'm passing this press release along: For Immediate Release 10/26/2026 Indivisible Ogden Local community activist David Belnap was arrested on Sunday for placing signs identifying the locations of ALPR AI surveillance cameras, commonly known as 'Flock'. Information about surveillance technology, such as camera locations and use, should be freely available to the public. By placing signs, ones that do not obstruct the camera's use, Mr. Belnap provided information that should already be accessible to the public. Agencies across Weber County, including the Weber County Sheriff's Office, various municipalities, and private businesses, operate hundreds of AI surveillance ALPR cameras. These cameras are leased from companies including Flock, Motorola, Axon, and others. No official registry lists ALPR camera locations, and community advocates struggle to get information agency by agency. Significant gaps remain in Utah's ALPR policy as an ever-interconnected world creates more avenues for abuse and misuse. According to the Utah Civic Compact, the Weber County Sheriff’s ALPR data was searched five million times, with 96% of those searches coming from outside Utah, including 125,719 from federal agencies. Utah law offers some protections against agency misuse of this technology, but none limit how companies use the data analyzed from ALPR systems. Local community activists were notified that sheriff's deputies were harassing Mr. Belnap while placing non-obstructing markers identifying the location of AI surveillance cameras. Activists arrived at the location to find Mr. Belnap's car being towed, and Mr. Belnap arrested. The County has not yet made bail available to Mr. Belnap. We demand that the Sheriff's Department not arrest people who simply want to clearly mark when civil rights are being endangered by privatized surveillance. We are asking community members to speak out against injustice. Contact the Weber County Sheriff about the arrest of Mr. Belnap; your state representative to ask for clear policy governing ALPR companies and agencies; and your mayor or city councilor to ask them not to spend tax dollars on AI surveillance technology. On Monday, Oct. 26th, join us at 4 p.m. to stand in solidarity for our valued colleague. We will gather by the road leaving the jail, at the NW corner of 12th and Depot Drive (700 West 12th Street), to demand his release! Then join us on TUESDAY, Oct. 27th, at 6:00 p.m. for a Community Forum on FLOCK cameras at Pleasant Valley Library, 5568 S. Adams Ave., Washington Terrace, in the Black Box Theatre.