"These Are Creepy People": Texas Residents BLAST Flock Executives
The short version: TYT Investigates captures Texas residents confronting Flock executives directly, showing that public anger over ALPR surveillance is boiling over into organized local pushback.
Our Take
Credit to TYT Investigates for putting a camera in the room when it matters most: a city council meeting where ordinary residents got to look Flock Safety executives in the eye and tell them exactly what they think. "These are creepy people" isn't a line from a privacy advocate's white paper — it's a gut reaction from someone who realized their comings and goings are being logged by a private company's network, often without a real public vote on whether that tradeoff was worth it.
This is the pattern we track constantly: a city quietly signs a contract, cameras go up on utility poles, and only later do residents discover the scope of what's being collected, how long it's retained, and who else can query it. When people finally get a public forum, the frustration isn't abstract — it's about trust, consent, and a surveillance company's executives having to explain themselves to the very community they're profiting off of. That kind of accountability moment is rare, and it's exactly what keeps this fight alive town by town.
If you want to know whether this is already happening near you, check our camera map to see documented Flock locations, and if you're ready to push back the way these Texas residents did, our take-action page has the tools to get started at your own council meeting.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of TYT Investigates, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.