Flock Safety is having a rough news cycle: a scrapped anti-surveillance detector, PR-driven officer firings, and city councils finally asking questions. The pattern is clear — accountability keeps happening after the fact, not before the cameras go up.
- Flock Safety Kills Screaming Detector After EFF Pressure, Cameras Still Listen Tech Times
Removing a tool that detected the cameras isn't privacy protection, it's just quieter surveillance.
- Flock Would Rather Jail Cops Than Turn Off the Cameras Footnote4a
Publicizing fired officers doesn't fix a system built to enable the abuse in the first place.
- Two wanted women arrested after license plate reader alert in Mt. Juliet WSMV
Two arrests don't answer the bigger question: how many innocent plates got scanned to get there.
- NB Council to listen to license plate camera concerns hometownsource.com
Good — communities should be asking these questions before contracts get signed, not after.
- Police Keep Losing Their Jobs For Using Flock Cameras To Stalk People Mother Jones
If cops keep getting fired for misusing this tool, the tool is the problem, not just the users.
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