Georgia Lawmakers Agree: Flock Cameras Need Guardrails | Politically Georgia
The short version: Georgia lawmakers from both parties admit Flock's ALPR network needs oversight, but months later nothing has actually changed.
Our Take
Politically Georgia's latest segment lays out a story we've seen play out in statehouse after statehouse: Republicans and Democrats sit down, agree on camera, that Flock Safety's license plate readers have outrun the laws meant to govern them, and then... nothing happens. Bipartisan consensus is supposed to be the thing that breaks legislative gridlock. In Georgia, it's apparently just the thing everyone nods along to before moving on to the next agenda item.
That gap between "we agree this is a problem" and "we did something about it" is exactly how mass surveillance infrastructure gets normalized. Every month without guardrails is another month of plate scans piling up in databases, shared across agencies and sometimes across state lines, with no meaningful audit trail for who's looking or why. Lawmakers can keep having the same panel conversation indefinitely while Flock keeps installing cameras on the ground.
If you're in Georgia and tired of watching your representatives agree in public and stall in private, that's leverage you can use. Check our map to see how many Flock cameras are already running in your area, and head to our take-action page for concrete ways to push your local council or state legislator past the talking-points stage.
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