Wilder flock camera concerns
The short version: Wilder, Idaho residents told their council that Flock shouldn't get to use local footage as free training data for its own product, per KTVB.
Our Take
Give Wilder residents credit: they zeroed in on the part of the Flock playbook that rarely gets discussed at these council meetings. It's not just "can police search my plate," it's "is my street's camera footage quietly becoming raw material for a private company's product roadmap?" That's a fair question, and city councils that sign these contracts almost never negotiate for real answers before the cameras go up.
This is the pattern we keep seeing nationwide: a vendor pitches a small town on public safety, gets a contract pushed through with minimal public input, and only after the poles are installed do residents start asking who actually owns the data, how long it's kept, and what else it's being used for. By then the leverage is gone. Wilder pushing back at a council meeting, even after the fact, is exactly the kind of local accountability this fight needs more of.
If you want to see whether a Flock camera is already watching your commute, check our map, and if your town hasn't installed them yet, our take-action page has what you need to get ahead of the contract instead of fighting it after the fact. Credit to KTVB for putting Wilder residents' concerns on the record.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of KTVB, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.