🔴 LIVE: Tanker attacked, flock cameras and ASU energy initiative | FOX Phoenix Live
The short version: FOX 10 Phoenix buries a mention of Flock cameras inside a grab-bag live broadcast, the kind of brief, uncritical local-news treatment that lets ALPR expansion fly under the radar.
Our Take
Credit to FOX 10 Phoenix for even mentioning Flock Safety cameras on air, but this is a textbook example of how automated license plate readers get normalized in local news: sandwiched between a tanker attack story and an ASU energy initiative, with no real time given to what these cameras actually track, who has access to the data, or how long it's retained. When surveillance tech gets the same breezy treatment as a university press release, viewers walk away thinking it's just another piece of city infrastructure — not a network that can log every car's movements across a metro area.
That's the pattern we see across local TV nationwide. Flock's cameras get framed as a crime-fighting convenience, often quoting police or company talking points, while the actual policy questions — retention windows, audit logs, mission creep into immigration or reproductive-health enforcement — rarely make it into a 90-second segment. Phoenix residents deserve more than a passing mention; they deserve to know exactly where these cameras are and what oversight (if any) exists.
If you live in the Phoenix area or anywhere in Arizona, check our camera map to see what's already been deployed near you, and visit our take-action page if you want to push your city council for real transparency instead of a footnote on the evening news.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of FOX 10 Phoenix, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.