Press & Media Kit
DeFlockILM tracks Flock automated license plate reader surveillance in Wilmington, New Hanover County, and across North Carolina — and publishes the public records behind it. Reporters are welcome to the facts, the documents, and an interview. Everything here is on the record.
What DeFlockILM is
DeFlockILM is a citizen-led effort to remove Flock ALPR surveillance cameras from Wilmington and New Hanover County, North Carolina. Founded by Wilmington attorney Mark Spencer Williams of Rice Law PLLC, the project files public-records requests, publishes the government’s own contracts and audit logs, tracks the statewide fight against ALPR surveillance, and gives residents a direct way to press their elected officials. Its work spans New Hanover, Brunswick, Pender, and Columbus counties, the New Hanover beach towns, and all sixteen UNC System universities.
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The numbers, sourced
~2.98 million
Searches of New Hanover County’s Flock network in about 16 months — with the name of every searching agency and officer redacted. Obtained by public-records request.
~$219,000
Value of the New Hanover County Sheriff’s Office Flock contract (#25-0364).
4 of 4
Cape Fear sheriffs — New Hanover, Brunswick, Pender, and Columbus — confirmed to run Flock contracts.
~2,800
ALPR cameras mapped across North Carolina in our county-by-county dataset (crowdsourced map, cross-referenced by county).
16
UNC System universities served with ALPR public-records requests in a single statewide filing.
90 days
The retention cap North Carolina law places on captured plate data (N.C. Gen. Stat. § 20-183.30 to .33).
Mark Spencer Williams
Mark Spencer Williams is the managing attorney at Rice Law, PLLC in Wilmington, North Carolina, and the founder of DeFlockILM. He has filed and published public-records requests to New Hanover County, the surrounding Cape Fear counties, the New Hanover beach towns, and every university in the UNC System, and has served demand letters seeking the release of redacted Flock audit records.
Documents we can provide
Verifiable primary sources, available on request:
- ✓The New Hanover County Flock contract and the redacted ~2.98-million-search audit.
- ✓Demand letters to the New Hanover and Madison county attorneys seeking release of the redacted records.
- ✓Wilmington PD’s Fusus “STING Center” camera-network policy, obtained by request.
- ✓A statewide, methodology-documented dataset of North Carolina ALPR cameras by county.
Logo, images & handles
A high-resolution logo and a headshot of the founder are available on request. Find us on TikTok @czarandkids and online at DeFlockILM.org.
Talk to us
Mark Spencer Williams · Rice Law, PLLC · Wilmington, NC
Office: 910-762-3854 | Mark@DeFlockILM.org
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