Prominent Democrats Take On Flock Cameras Across America
The short version: Really American's Nick and Steve highlight how Bernie Sanders, AOC, and other prominent Democrats are now publicly criticizing Flock Safety's ALPR network, signaling growing bipartisan unease.
Our Take
Credit to Nick and Steve over at Really American for flagging something we've been watching closely: opposition to Flock Safety's camera network isn't staying in one political lane. When figures like Bernie Sanders and AOC start raising alarms about a surveillance system that was largely sold to the public as a quiet, local policing tool, that's a signal worth paying attention to. Mass license plate tracking doesn't care about party registration, and neither should the pushback against it.
This matters because Flock's pitch has always leaned on bipartisan comfort — public safety framing that both red and blue local governments have been quick to approve without much scrutiny. When national-level Democrats start asking hard questions about warrantless data sharing, retention periods, and who actually has access to the billions of plate scans sitting in Flock's servers, it chips away at the idea that this is just a left-vs-right issue. It's a power issue. Who holds the data, who can query it, and who's accountable when it's misused.
We'd encourage readers to not just take the video's word for it — or ours. Check our camera map to see how dense this network already is in your own community, and if you're ready to push back locally, our take-action page has concrete steps for engaging city councils and police oversight boards before the next contract renewal gets rubber-stamped.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Really American, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.