See How Flock Is Tracking You (And What You Can Do).

Our Take

Another creator has trained a lens on those solar-topped black boxes multiplying on utility poles across the country, and that's a good thing. The more people who understand that Flock Safety's cameras aren't just snapping photos but building searchable, retained databases of everywhere your plate has been, the harder it gets for this industry to expand quietly. Classy Computing's rundown of the DeFlock ecosystem — the map, the FOIA templates, tools like Have I Been Flocked — is exactly the kind of grassroots translation this issue needs, because most people still have no idea a private company is logging their movements block by block.

What makes this coverage matter is the "what you can do" framing. Too much surveillance reporting ends at outrage. Knowing that you can file a public records request, find out which agency is paying for the cameras near you, and add missing ones to a crowdsourced map turns frustration into documentation — and documentation is what eventually forces city councils to answer for contracts they signed with little public debate.

We'd encourage anyone who watches this video to go a step further: check our camera map to see what's already been logged in your area, and if you spot a Flock unit that isn't there yet, use our take-action resources to report it and push your local officials for transparency. Credit to Classy Computing for putting a plain-language explainer in front of a general audience — that's how this movement grows.