Fitchburg City Council to vote on use of Flock cameras
The short version: News 3 Now reports Fitchburg's city council is set to vote on whether to bring Flock Safety ALPR cameras into town, another local government facing this decision with little public debate.
Our Take
Credit to Channel 3000 / News 3 Now for flagging this vote before it disappears into a consent agenda somewhere. This is how Flock Safety expands — not through some grand national rollout, but one city council meeting at a time, often with minimal public notice and a sales pitch heavy on "stolen vehicles" and light on retention policy, audit trails, or who else gets access to the data.
Fitchburg residents deserve to know what they're actually voting on: a network of cameras that logs every passing vehicle's plate, time, and location, feeds into a searchable national database, and can be queried by other agencies — including federal ones — without local oversight. "Vote on cameras" sounds procedural. It isn't. It's a decision about whether Fitchburg becomes another node in a surveillance system that doesn't ask permission to track you.
If you're in Fitchburg or anywhere else watching a council weigh this, check our camera map to see what's already out there, and use our take-action guide to show up before the vote, not after.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Channel 3000 / News 3 Now, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.