Law Enforcement's Stance on Flock Technology #shorts
The short version: A former officer's short pitch for Flock ALPRs as a missing-persons tool glosses over the mass-surveillance tradeoffs that come with every scanned plate.
Our Take
Credit to The Redemption Project for getting a former law enforcement voice on record about Flock Safety's ALPR network. The missing-persons and Amber Alert framing is the industry's go-to pitch, and it's an easy one to sympathize with — nobody wants to argue against finding a missing kid. But that framing is also precisely why these systems get sold to city councils with so little pushback: the sympathetic use case up front, the dragnet in the fine print.
What a 60-second clip can't cover is what actually happens to the other 99.9% of scans that have nothing to do with a missing person — where that plate data goes, how long it's stored, which agencies and private companies can query it later, and whether a warrant was ever required to look. Those are the questions that matter once a network of cameras is covering an entire town instead of one intersection.
If a former officer's take moved you either way, go look at what's actually deployed near you on our camera map, and if you want to push back on a local Flock contract, our take-action page has concrete next steps.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of The Redemption Project, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.