Flock cameras destroyed in Savannah

Our Take

Credit to WJCL News for getting cameras on the ground in Savannah, where it looks like someone decided to settle their dispute with Flock Safety the old-fashioned way. We don't condone property destruction, but we understand the impulse. When a private company bolts a camera to a pole, starts logging every car that passes, and nobody in the neighborhood remembers voting on it, frustration builds. Vandalism is what happens when people feel like the normal channels — city council meetings, public comment, open records requests — aren't working fast enough to stop a surveillance rollout that's already live.

What's missing from most local coverage of these incidents is the bigger picture: Savannah isn't an outlier. Flock's network now spans thousands of communities, often installed quietly through police department contracts with little public debate about data retention, who gets access to the footage, or how it gets shared across state lines. A camera getting torn down makes the news for a day; the thousands still running every day don't.

If you want to know whether your street is already being watched, check our camera map before you find out the hard way. And if you'd rather push back through your city council than a pair of bolt cutters, our take-action page has a better playbook.