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The short version: Uncle Scruffy Show highlights that Flock Safety kept employees on payroll after an internal misuse incident, defending them publicly instead of holding them accountable.
Our Take
Credit to The Uncle Scruffy Show for digging into a detail that too often gets buried: when Flock Safety's own people misuse the surveillance network, the company's instinct is to defend, not discipline. A corporate blog post explaining away employee conduct is not accountability — it's damage control dressed up as transparency.
This matters because the entire pitch for ALPR networks rests on trust: trust that access is tightly controlled, trust that audits are real, and trust that misuse gets punished. When the company that built the system won't hold its own staff to that standard, why should any police department, city council, or resident believe the guardrails around their data are any tighter? Every camera in this network is only as trustworthy as the people and policies behind it, and this incident is a crack in that foundation.
If there's a Flock reader watching your street, you deserve to know who's really seeing that data and what happens when they cross the line. Check our camera map to see what's nearby, and hit up our take-action page to push your local officials for real oversight instead of corporate reassurances.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of The Uncle Scruffy Show, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.