Columbia Heights, Minnesota Flock Town Hall 5/14/26

Our Take

The channel FuckBradsLaw dropped footage from a Columbia Heights, Minnesota town hall that's worth watching purely as a tactics reel. Regular people showed up, asked pointed questions, and refused to let vague "public safety" talking points slide. According to the video, that pressure culminated in the city council voting to end its Flock Safety contract. If that holds, it's a real data point for anyone who thinks these fights are unwinnable once a department signs on the dotted line.

This matters because the Flock playbook nationwide relies on councils rubber-stamping renewals with little scrutiny — cameras quietly multiply, data-sharing agreements expand, and nobody outside the department really knows how the system is being used. Columbia Heights is a reminder that local government is still the pressure point where these contracts live or die, and that showing up in person, on the record, still works when it's organized and persistent.

Credit to FuckBradsLaw for documenting the process instead of just the outcome — the how matters as much as the win. If you want to see whether your own town has Flock hardware already installed, check our camera map, and if you're ready to start applying the same kind of pressure locally, our take-action resources can help you get started.