SCOOP: Home Depot Shareholders to Vote on Whether Parking Lot Cameras Are Helping ICE Find Customers
A vote at the company's May 21 annual meeting could force the retail giant to account for how its license plate reader network may be enabling immigration enforcement near its stores.
WASHINGTON — Every time you pull into a Home Depot parking lot, there’s a camera reading your license plate. The company hired a vendor called Flock Safety to install them. Flock’s network connects to federal authorities. And now, two shareholders are forcing the question that Home Depot’s board would rather not answer: Is this company helping immigration enforcement find its own customers?
The question goes to a vote on May 21.
Item 8 on the agenda for Home Depot’s 2026 Annual Meeting of Shareholders — virtual only, 9 a.m. Eastern — is a shareholder proposal filed by Neil Fisher and Meryl Loonin. They are asking the company’s Board of Directors to produce a report assessing the risks to customers’ data privacy rights that result from Home Depot sharing sensitive data with third parties. The data in question includes gender, race, ethnicity, and geolocation.
The vehicle is Flock Safety’s Automated License Plate Reader cameras — ALPRs, in the business — deployed across Home Depot location…