I-Team Investigates: Two Alabama cases prompt questions about Flock cameras

Our Take

Credit to ABC 33/40's I-Team for digging into two Alabama cases that raise hard questions about how Flock Safety cameras get used once they're bolted to a pole. We've said it before: the marketing pitch is always about solving crimes, but the real-world record is messy, inconsistent, and often short on accountability when something goes wrong. When local reporters start asking pointed questions, it's usually because the public records and official answers didn't add up.

This is the pattern we track constantly — cameras get approved with vague policies, data gets shared across jurisdictions nobody voted on, and when a case goes sideways, there's no clear line of responsibility. Two cases is never just two cases. It's a signal of how a system without real guardrails behaves at scale, across thousands of similar deployments nationwide.

If you're in Alabama or anywhere else wondering whether your town has quietly joined this network, check our map to see what's nearby. And if your city council hasn't had a public debate about this, that's exactly the gap our action resources are built to help you close.