How Popular are Flock Cameras?
The short version: Texas Scorecard's poll segment suggests everyday Texans are souring on Flock cameras, and that public mood matters more than city councils admit.
Our Take
Credit to Texas Scorecard for doing something too few outlets bother with: actually asking voters what they think about Flock Safety cameras instead of just taking a police chief's press release at face value. When polling shows "distaste" for ALPR networks sitting alongside skepticism about data centers, it's a signal that people are starting to connect the dots between surveillance infrastructure and the erosion of everyday privacy — even in a state not exactly known for reflexive distrust of law enforcement tech.
This matters because the Flock sales pitch to city councils almost never includes a public vote. Contracts get signed, cameras get bolted to poles, and residents find out after the fact that every trip to the grocery store is now a timestamped, searchable record shared across a growing network of agencies. Polling like this is one of the few tools that can force a public conversation before the next renewal cycle, rather than after thousands more plates have already been logged.
If you want to see whether this sentiment matches what's actually happening on the ground, check our camera map for Flock deployments near you, and if your city is debating a contract, head to our take-action page for tools to push back before the vote, not after.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Texas Scorecard, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.