--- title: "A California city just approved $3.15M in police drones that respond to 911 calls in 30 seconds" url: https://daily.dev/posts/a-california-city-just-approved-3-15m-in-police-drones-that-respond-to-911-calls-in-30-seconds-hjgpaqvla source_url: https://thenextweb.com/news/stockton-flock-drones-first-responder-surveillance type: article source: "The Next Web" published: 2026-06-10T22:20:32.799Z updated: 2026-06-10T22:20:52.805Z tags: ["privacy"] reading_time: 3 upvotes: 1 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # A California city just approved $3.15M in police drones that respond to 911 calls in 30 seconds **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 3 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Stockton, California approved a $3.15 million expansion of its contract with Flock Safety to deploy police drones as first responders, capable of reaching 911 call scenes in as little as 30 seconds and covering over 75% of the city. The city council voted 7-0 despite over an hour of public opposition focused on privacy, immigration enforcement, and mass surveillance concerns. Critics highlighted Flock's past record of sharing license plate data with border agents, tracking a woman who had an abortion via its camera network, and an incident of unauthorized access in Mountain View. Flock maintains local agencies control their own data and that federal agencies are blocked from accessing Stockton's data, but the gap between stated policy and past practice remains a central concern. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [When Flock Comes to Town: Why Cities Are Axing the Controversial Surveillance Technology](https://daily.dev/posts/when-flock-comes-to-town-why-cities-are-axing-the-controversial-surveillance-technology-ddbqrvjjr) · Hacker News · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Flock CEO calls for ‘compromise’ as surveillance company faces growing backlash](https://daily.dev/posts/flock-ceo-calls-for-compromise-as-surveillance-company-faces-growing-backlash-lgvwy1upp) · TechCrunch · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Flock surveillance cameras are spreading across the US](https://daily.dev/posts/flock-surveillance-cameras-are-spreading-across-the-us-9dx0pt2ac) · The Next Web · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#privacy](https://daily.dev/tags/privacy) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/a-california-city-just-approved-3-15m-in-police-drones-that-respond-to-911-calls-in-30-seconds-hjgpaqvla)