🎧 Besos by YngSolomon / take the flock cameras down #protest #flock #santarosa
The short version: A Santa Rosa artist turns ALPR anger into protest art, set to music, calling for Flock cameras to come down — proof this fight is going cultural, not just political.
Our Take
Credit where it's due: YngSolomon's "Besos" clip is a short, DIY protest piece set to music, flagged #flock and #santarosa, with a simple message — take the cameras down. We don't have a transcript or a policy breakdown here, just a creator using art to voice frustration with automated license plate readers creeping into their city. That's worth noting on its own. Surveillance pushback doesn't only happen in city council chambers and public records requests; it shows up in songs, street art, and short videos made by regular people who are sick of being tracked block by block.
Santa Rosa is one of hundreds of California communities where Flock Safety's network has expanded with little public debate about retention windows, data sharing agreements, or who gets access to the scans. When a local creator drops a protest track instead of a city council comment, it's a signal that the usual channels for accountability aren't cutting it for a lot of residents. Culture is often the early warning system — people make noise in public before policy catches up.
If you're in Santa Rosa or anywhere else wondering whether a Flock camera is already watching your street, check our camera map to see what's been documented nearby. And if "take the cameras down" resonates with you beyond a song lyric, our take-action page has concrete steps for pushing back at the local level.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of YngSolomon, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.