Petition to Stop Surveillance Cameras
The short version: A SupAmerica video pushes a petition against Flock's spreading camera network, echoing a growing public pushback against automated surveillance.
Our Take
Credit to SupAmerica for putting a number on the frustration a lot of Americans feel but rarely voice: these cameras showed up fast, with little public input, and now they're just... everywhere. A petition is a blunt instrument, but it's also one of the few tools ordinary people have to signal that they didn't consent to being tracked block by block.
We don't have the specifics of this petition's text or reach, so we won't pretend otherwise — but the instinct behind it is sound. Flock's pitch to city councils is always the same: safety, efficiency, solving crime. What rarely gets debated in public session is retention policy, who else gets access to that data, and what happens when a system built to catch stolen cars quietly becomes a tool for tracking anyone, for any reason, indefinitely.
If you want to see how dense this network already is in your own neighborhood, check our camera map. And if a petition isn't enough for you, we've got concrete next steps — public records requests, council meeting scripts, the works — on our take-action page.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of SupAmerica, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.