Do Flock cameras have you concerned about your privacy?

Our Take

Credit to WHAS11 for putting the privacy question on local news where regular people actually see it. Most Flock Safety coverage still treats these cameras as a neutral crime-fighting tool, so a segment that simply asks "should you be concerned?" is doing real public service — even without diving into the technical weeds of retention policies or data-sharing agreements.

The honest answer is yes, you should be concerned, and not because ALPRs are inherently useless for solving crimes. It's because a network that logs every plate that passes a fixed point, timestamps it, and stores it for weeks or months creates a movement history on millions of law-abiding drivers who were never suspected of anything. That data doesn't stay local either — it can be queried by other agencies, sometimes across state lines, with little public visibility into who asked for what and why.

If your town has cameras like the ones discussed here, you deserve to know where they are and how your local government is using them. Check our camera map to see what's already been documented near you, and if nothing's listed, that's a gap worth filling. When you're ready to push back on unchecked deployment, our take-action page has concrete steps for getting answers from city council.