Burbank City Council Candidate Nolan Southerland on Flock Cameras and Council Gridlock
The short version: A Burbank council candidate and local residents have spent nearly a year pressing city hall on Flock ALPRs, and JamieDelphine's video captures the stalemate.
Our Take
Nearly a year of public pressure and Burbank's city council still can't give residents a straight answer on Flock Safety cameras — that's the story JamieDelphine captures in this interview with council candidate Nolan Southerland. It's a familiar pattern we see in city after city: officials nod along to concerns about data sharing, retention windows, and ICE access, then quietly let the contract renew while the conversation gets buried in committee limbo.
What makes this one worth watching is the local angle. Southerland isn't a national pundit — he's someone running for office specifically because his neighbors kept showing up to meetings and getting stonewalled. That's exactly the kind of grassroots friction that actually moves policy, far more than op-eds ever will. Credit to JamieDelphine for putting a camera on it instead of letting it stay a City Hall footnote.
If you're in Burbank or anywhere else wondering whether these cameras are already watching your street, check our camera map to see what's been documented near you, and if you want to push your own council the way Burbank residents have, our take-action resources walk through what's worked elsewhere.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of JamieDelphine, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.