Keep Louisville Free - PSA on the Flock Safety Camera epidemic in Jefferson County

Our Take

Credit to the channel Flock Awareness for putting a local face on a national problem. 'Keep Louisville Free' is exactly the kind of grassroots PSA this fight needs — it doesn't take a Washington think tank to notice that your commute is being logged camera by camera, it takes neighbors paying attention to what's going up on the poles in Jefferson County.

We don't have the transcript details to fact-check every claim in the video, but the broader pattern is well documented: Flock Safety's automated license plate readers have spread into thousands of communities with little public debate, often approved in a single council vote with no public bidding process, no data retention limits residents actually understand, and no real audit of who else gets to query the database. Once a city says yes to 'just a few cameras for solving car break-ins,' the network tends to grow, and the footprint of who's watching your daily movements grows with it.

If you're in Jefferson County or anywhere else wondering whether Flock has already shown up on your street, check our camera map to see what's been documented near you, and if you want to push back at a city council meeting or public records request, our take-action page has the tools to get started.