1. United States
2. N.Y.
3. Letter

I'm writing as a constituent to ask you to cosponsor H.R. 10221, the Flock-Off Act. The bill is straightforward. It bars federal dollars from being used to buy, install, run, or upgrade automated license plate readers and biometric surveillance cameras, and it covers the parts that matter most: the contracts, cloud subscriptions, databases, and data-sharing arrangements that turn a few hundred local cameras into a national tracking network. Agencies would get 180 days to wind down federally funded systems. Toll collection and cameras near the borders are carved out. Rep. Thomas Massie introduced it on September 2, and it's sitting in the Oversight and Government Reform Committee with cosponsors from both parties, including Ro Khanna and Chip Roy. Plate readers photograph every car that passes, whether or not the driver is suspected of anything, and log the time and place into a searchable database. Flock's system is built to reward maximum sharing: a department that opens its data to the whole national network gets to search the whole national network back. That's how local cameras end up feeding federal agencies nobody in the neighborhood agreed to. This isn't hypothetical. EFF and the ACLU of Northern California say the Marin County Sheriff's office shared Flock data with out-of-state and federal agencies, including ICE and Border Patrol, in violation of California law. Researchers at the University of Washington's Center for Human Rights found that at least eight Washington agencies had opened direct sharing with Border Patrol during 2025, along with "side door" searches run on federal agencies' behalf. The ACLU is campaigning nationally on this, and its policy counsel has argued to Congress that the strongest protection is banning ALPRs outright. Cities are already cancelling contracts. Federal grants are what scaled this up in the first place. Cutting the funding is a narrow, targeted step, and it's one you can take without waiting on anyone else. Please cosponsor H.R. 10221. I'd welcome a reply on where you stand.