Deflock & Flock You With a Halehound #esp32 #halehound #deflock
The short version: Valleytech Custom Solutions demos an ESP32-based 'Halehound' gadget aimed at sniffing out Flock Safety ALPR cameras, showing how hobbyists are building their own counter-surveillance tools.
Our Take
Credit to Valleytech Custom Solutions for tinkering in public. This video is a reminder that the response to Flock's camera sprawl isn't just coming from lawyers and city council meetings — it's coming from garages and workbenches too. An ESP32 microcontroller costs a few bucks, and pairing it with a purpose-built rig like the Halehound signals a growing DIY impulse: if a private company is going to blanket your commute in license-plate cameras, some people are going to build their own tools to know where those cameras are.
We can't vouch for the technical specifics of any single build — these projects evolve fast and vary in reliability — but the broader trend matters. Every one of these projects is downstream of a simple fact: Flock has installed tens of thousands of ALPR cameras across the country with little public input, often with camera locations kept vague or undisclosed. When the network stays opaque, people start building their own detection rigs just to regain a sense of where they're being tracked.
That's exactly the gap we're trying to close with public, crowdsourced data instead of homebrew hardware. Check our camera map to see what's already been documented near you, and if you want to push back on new installations in your area, our take-action page has concrete steps.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Valleytech Custom Solutions, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.