I LOVE FLOCK
The short version: Creator Baubles' sardonically titled "I LOVE FLOCK" video walks through how Flock Safety's ALPR network has quietly spread nationwide and raises Fourth Amendment red flags.
Our Take
The title "I LOVE FLOCK" is doing a lot of ironic heavy lifting here. Baubles is the latest independent creator to point a camera at Flock Safety's cameras, and the joke lands because there's nothing lovable about a patchwork of license plate readers stitching together a de facto national tracking system — one built with zero public referendum, zero warrant requirement, and very little transparency about who gets to query your movements.
What makes this video worth your time isn't a bombshell revelation; it's the framing. When an ordinary person picks up a camera and starts asking "wait, is this even constitutional?" that's the surveillance state losing its default invisibility. Flock's pitch has always been that this is just a helpful tool for local police, but the reality is a growing web of always-on plate capture, shared across jurisdictions, often outliving whatever narrow use case got it approved in a city council meeting nobody attended.
We appreciate Baubles putting a spotlight on this, and we'd encourage readers to go check the channel out and support independent coverage like it. If this video has you wondering how close the nearest Flock camera is to your own driveway, check our camera map, and if you're ready to push back locally, our take-action page has next steps.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Baubles, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.