How to avoid flock safety cameras
The short version: AJC tested DeFlock's crowdsourced map to see if drivers could route around Flock cameras, and found that in most cities, you simply can't.
Our Take
Credit to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution for actually putting the DeFlock concept to the test instead of just speculating about it. Their finding — that dodging Flock Safety cameras is far harder than it sounds — isn't a knock on the map, it's the whole point. When a network is dense enough that no route avoids it, that's not a navigation failure, that's saturation. That's the story.
This is exactly why DeFlock exists as a crowdsourced project in the first place: no single agency, city council, or police department is required to tell you how many ALPRs are watching your commute, so volunteers built the map themselves, camera by camera. The AJC's experiment is a real-world demonstration of what we've been saying — this isn't a handful of intersections anymore, it's a mesh that increasingly covers entire metro areas, logging where you drive whether or not you've done anything wrong.
If a car ride across Atlanta can't reasonably avoid Flock's lens, the conversation needs to shift from 'how do I evade it' to 'why is it here and who's accountable for it.' Check our camera map to see what's tracking your own neighborhood, and visit take action for ways to push back at the local level.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Atlanta Journal-Constitution, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.