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Butler Privacy Project · butlerprivacy.org

Liberty Township is paying for cameras that record everyone who drives by. We want them removed.

Automated license plate readers photograph every car that passes — not just suspects — and store those movements in a searchable database run by a private company. We're Liberty Township residents asking the Board of Trustees to end the Flock program and remove the township-funded cameras. Pausing them and turning off outside sharing are interim safeguards, not the goal.

Three facts, all sourced

  1. Public records confirm the deal: 10 Flock license plate readers at $30,000 a year, on a signed 36-month order that RENEWS AUTOMATICALLY unless someone gives 30 days' notice. Ending it takes a letter.

    Source: Signed Flock order, Jan 22, 2026 (released via public records) — full citations at butlerprivacy.org/evidence/

  2. The written policy requires no reasonable suspicion to search, lets administrators grant outside agencies access at their discretion, says nothing about immigration enforcement, and provides one internal audit a year that the public never sees. Our request for the actual logs was denied.

    Source: BCSO Policy 4.36 (released via public records) — full citations at butlerprivacy.org/evidence/

  3. The trustees approved the cameras as 'technology needed to provide police services' — the word Flock never appeared in the motion — and charged them to the township's OPIOID SETTLEMENT fund. On August 18, Oxford, in this same county, voted 6–1 to terminate its Flock contract.

    Source: Liberty Twp minutes, Feb 3, 2026 / WVXU, Aug 2026 — full citations at butlerprivacy.org/evidence/

What you can do

  • Speak at a trustee meeting. Next: Tuesday, Sep 1, 2026 (confirm), 6:00 p.m., Liberty Township Administration Building, 5021 Winners Circle Drive, Liberty Township, Ohio. Scripts at butlerprivacy.org/meetings/.
  • Email the trustees. A ready-to-send draft is at butlerprivacy.org/meetings/.
  • Sign the resident petition. butlerprivacy.org/petition/
  • Read the evidence and records. Every claim is sourced or marked pending at butlerprivacy.org/evidence/.

We support real investigations and lawful, respectful advocacy — no harassment, no interference with equipment. Butler Privacy Project is independent and resident-led. Contact: [email protected]