US Senate LIVE: Flock Cameras Under Senate Spotlight Over Privacy, AI Tracking and ICE Access
The short version: Senate lawmakers finally put Flock Safety's ALPR network on the record over privacy, AI tracking, and ICE data access.
Our Take
Credit to ALERT News for carrying this one live — a Senate hearing dragging Flock Safety's nationwide camera network into the open is exactly the kind of scrutiny we've been begging for. For years, Flock has expanded county by county, city by city, with almost no federal oversight and plenty of local officials signing contracts without reading the fine print on data sharing. Having senators ask pointed questions about AI-driven tracking and ICE access on the record is a big deal, even if the hearing itself won't fix anything overnight.
What matters here isn't whether Flock's executives give smooth answers — they will. What matters is that lawmakers are finally acknowledging that a private company's camera network has become a de facto national surveillance system, one that can be queried across state lines and handed to federal agencies with little transparency to the people being tracked. That's the exact dynamic we've documented for months: local "public safety" cameras quietly becoming federal surveillance infrastructure.
Don't wait on Congress to protect your privacy. Check our camera map to see what's watching your streets right now, and hit up take-action if you want to push back on your local city council before the next contract renewal.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of ALERT News, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.