They Are Replacing Flock Cameras With Something Much WORSE
The short version: A creator flags Flock cameras getting swapped for even more invasive tech, underscoring that fighting ALPRs means staying ahead of what replaces them.
Our Take
Credit to SecurityEvolution for pointing the camera (pun intended) at a trend we've been watching closely: when communities push back hard enough on Flock Safety's ALPR network, the response isn't always retreat — sometimes it's an upgrade to something with even fewer guardrails. That's the nature of the surveillance industry. Public pressure wins a battle, and vendors quietly pivot to the next generation of tracking tech before anyone's caught their breath.
This is exactly why we can't treat any single camera system as the finish line. Flock's ALPR network is the most visible piece of the automated surveillance puzzle, but it's not the only piece, and replacing one bad system with a worse one means the problem didn't go away — it just got a software update. If your town is debating what comes next after Flock, that's the moment to ask hard questions about retention, access logs, and who's allowed to query the data, not just who made the camera.
Check our camera map to see what's already deployed near you, and if you want to push back before the next, shinier system gets installed in its place, our take-action resources are a good place to start.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of SecurityEvolution, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.