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Mándame Información Sobre Cámaras FLOCK

Caza Migras · 5 months ago

The short version: A channel called Caza Migras is crowdsourcing Flock camera locations from viewers, underscoring how communities are mapping ALPR surveillance themselves.

Our Take

The title says it all: "Send me information about FLOCK cameras." Caza Migras is asking its audience to crowdsource camera locations, which tells you something important — people living under the threat of immigration enforcement aren't waiting for transparency reports or city council minutes. They're building their own intelligence network because the agencies deploying these cameras rarely volunteer where the cameras are or who gets access to the data.

That's the real story behind Flock Safety's expansion. These aren't just "public safety" tools for local police chasing stolen cars. Flock's networked ALPR data has repeatedly been shown to flow well beyond its original purpose, including to federal immigration enforcement in some documented cases, often without the knowledge of the city councils that approved the cameras in the first place. When a community has to crowdsource its own surveillance map, that's a failure of public oversight, not a feature of the system.

We built our camera map for exactly this reason — so people don't have to start from zero every time they want to know what's watching their block. If you want to push back on an unaccountable camera in your town, our take-action page has the tools to start that fight.

This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Caza Migras, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.