Tyler Cain - DeFlock Idaho - The Interview

Our Take

Credit to Ron Nate and Idaho Freedom TV for giving Tyler Cain, founder of DeFlock Idaho, the space to lay out why ordinary residents are organizing against Flock Safety cameras in their own backyards. This is how the pushback against mass ALPR surveillance actually spreads: not through DC policy fights, but through state and local volunteers mapping cameras, asking city councils hard questions, and refusing to accept 'it's just for solving crimes' as the end of the conversation.

What makes these grassroots chapters valuable is that they turn an abstract privacy debate into something concrete. A camera bolted to a pole on your street corner isn't hypothetical — it's logging your plate, your travel patterns, and your habits, often with little public oversight of who can access that data or for how long. Once that infrastructure exists, it rarely gets smaller; it gets expanded, networked, and shared. That's the core warning these local efforts keep surfacing, and it's worth hearing directly from the people doing the work.

If this conversation gets you thinking about what's installed near you, check our camera map to see what's been documented in your area, and visit our take-action page if you want to push back the way Idaho's volunteers are doing.