“Flock Safety’s license plate reader cameras are facing growing backlash over surveillance and
The short version: A YouTube explainer from The JMOR Connection adds to mounting public pushback on Flock Safety ALPRs, and the backlash is justified.
Our Take
The JMOR Connection's rundown lands on something we've been saying for a while: the backlash against Flock Safety isn't fringe anymore, it's mainstream. When a general-interest YouTube channel starts breaking down how license plate readers quietly log where your car goes, that's a sign the surveillance normalization window is closing. Good.
What makes Flock's network different from a single cop with a camera is scale and persistence. One reader on one street corner is a curiosity. Thousands of them networked together, feeding a searchable database of vehicle movements over time, is a mass tracking system — and it was built without most residents ever getting a real vote on whether they wanted it watching their block. That's the part these videos keep surfacing, and the part local officials keep hoping nobody asks about too closely.
If this topic is new to you, don't just watch and move on. Check our camera map to see what's already deployed near you, and head to our take-action page for concrete steps to push back at your next city council meeting.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of The JMOR Connection, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.