Since 2016, the city of Detroit and the Detroit Police Department have launched the city-wide surveillance infrastructure Project Green Light for purposes of preventing and reducing crimes at local businesses and communities. In doing so, surveillance technologies have been naturalized as a device to promote public safety. Yet, it is unclear what safety means to community members, how community members perceive and navigate with surveillance technologies, and how the surveillance infrastructure meets situated safety needs. In this presentation, we will discuss the preliminary results of ethnographic fieldwork in Detroit that surfaces the actors’ diverse safety needs and complicity in the implementation of surveillance infrastructure. We will then propose Videovoice—a new community-based participatory method that extends the Photovoice research method to include video taking and sharing—as a tool to challenge/resist the conflation of safety and surveillance, and communicate community experiences and voices with stakeholders. This presentation concludes with an open discussion of opportunities for Videovoice to disrupt the power and knowledge asymmetries 1) between the authorities and minoritized communities and 2) between researchers/academic institutions and communities.