"They Treat Us Like Animals" | Fishback On FLOCK
The short version: A Florida gubernatorial candidate turning anti-Flock rhetoric into a campaign slogan shows ALPR backlash has become genuine electoral politics, not just a niche privacy gripe.
Our Take
Credit to the channel "Yes!" for capturing James Fishback's "Block Flock Now" pitch on the trail in Orlando. Whatever you think of a gubernatorial candidate building a slogan around a camera company, the fact that Flock Safety is now a stump-speech villain tells you how far this issue has traveled. A few years ago ALPR sprawl was a wonky civil-liberties footnote. Now it's animal-cruelty puns at a rally.
The substance behind the theater is real, even if we can't vouch for every promise a candidate makes months before an election. Networks of automated plate readers logging every car that passes, shared across jurisdictions, retained for who-knows-how-long, without a warrant — that's the actual policy fight, and it's why Fishback's Fourth Amendment framing resonates whether you're on the left or right. Mass location tracking doesn't care about your party registration.
Campaign promises are easy to make and easy to break once someone's in office, so don't wait on politicians to fix this for you. Check our camera map to see what's already watching your commute, and hit take action for concrete steps to push back locally, regardless of who's running for governor next year.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Yes!, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.