Flock Safety Employees Fired? None, Not One
The short version: Heartland Now's Ben Jordan highlights that no Flock Safety employees faced consequences after cameras allegedly captured a community pool and daycare, exposing a real accountability gap.
Our Take
Ben Jordan over at Heartland Now digs into a question that should bother anyone living near a Flock Safety install: when the cameras end up pointed somewhere they shouldn't be — like a community pool or a daycare — who actually pays for that? According to his reporting, the answer so far is nobody. Not one employee disciplined, not one clear public accounting of what went wrong or how it's being fixed.
That's the pattern we keep seeing with ALPR networks. These systems are marketed to city councils as narrowly scoped crime-fighting tools, but the actual camera placement, data retention, and internal review process are controlled almost entirely by the vendor, not the public. When something goes sideways — a camera angle that sweeps across kids at a daycare, say — there's no independent regulator checking the homework. It's Flock investigating Flock, and predictably, the conclusion tends to be that nothing needs to change.
This is exactly why documentation and public pressure matter. If your town has one of these cameras, you deserve to know where it's aimed and who's accountable when it isn't aimed where it's supposed to be. Check our map to see what's already been documented near you, and if you want to push back on a local install, our take-action page has concrete steps for raising this with your city council before the next 'zero employees fired' story is about your neighborhood.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Heartland Now, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.