Dunwoody council approves new contract with Flock camera network
The short version: Dunwoody's council pushed through a new Flock contract despite public pushback, showing how little resident opposition weighs against automated surveillance expansion.
Our Take
11Alive's coverage of Monday's Dunwoody council meeting captures a pattern we see in city after city: residents show up, raise real concerns about privacy and mission creep, and the council votes for the Flock contract anyway. Vocal opposition rarely changes the outcome once a police department has decided it wants more cameras — the contract gets framed as a public safety necessity long before the public ever gets a say.
What's frustrating is how routine this has become. A vendor pitch, a short comment period, a handful of pointed questions from residents about data sharing and retention, and then a rubber-stamp vote. Dunwoody isn't unique — it's the playbook. The real fight isn't happening in these council chambers after the fact, it's in whether communities get ahead of these contracts before they're on the agenda at all.
Credit to 11Alive for actually documenting the pushback instead of just reporting the vote as routine business. If you want to see how far this network already reaches near you, check the map, and if your city is about to have its own Dunwoody moment, our take-action page has resources for showing up before the vote, not after.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of 11Alive, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.