The Backlash Against Flock Cameras Is Growing | Meet the Flockers Pt. 3
The short version: Mak-Tube's Chris Faraone spotlights the growing grassroots pushback against Flock Safety's ALPR network and the murky approval process behind it.
Our Take
Credit to Chris Faraone and Mak-Tube for Part 3 of "Meet the Flockers," which turns the camera on the people finally turning the camera back on Flock. This isn't a story about crime stats or marketing decks from a surveillance vendor — it's about neighbors in city council meetings asking basic questions nobody bothered to ask before the cameras went up: who approved this, what's being logged, who can search it, and why does the data stick around as long as it does.
That last point is the whole ballgame. Flock doesn't sell a single camera — it sells a searchable, networked database of where your car has been, and that database routinely crosses jurisdictional lines without the public ever voting on it. When residents start demanding retention limits, audit logs, and real oversight, they're not being paranoid, they're doing the due diligence local governments skipped. The backlash this video documents isn't an aberration, it's democracy catching up to tech that outran the policy conversation.
If you want to see how deep this network runs in your own town, check our camera map, and if you're ready to push back the way the folks in this video are, our take-action page has the tools to start.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Mak-Tube, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.