Video: Auburn Mayor Jimmy Giannettino on canceling Flock contract
The short version: Auburn's mayor goes on record about scrapping the city's Flock Safety contract, a sign that ALPR pushback is reaching the top of city hall.
Our Take
When a sitting mayor is willing to sit down with a local paper and talk through canceling a Flock Safety contract, that's not just local news — it's a signal. Credit to The Citizen Newspaper for getting Auburn Mayor Jimmy Giannettino on camera to explain his thinking, rather than letting this get settled behind closed doors with a quiet vote and no public accounting.
We've said it before: these fights are won or lost in city council chambers, not in Flock's marketing decks. Once a network of plate readers goes in, it rarely gets ripped out — the sunk-cost logic of "we already paid for it" tends to override questions about whether it actually reduces crime or just quietly builds a searchable log of everyone's movements. A mayor publicly weighing cancellation means someone in Auburn's government is treating those questions as legitimate, not just noise from privacy cranks.
Watch the video, then check whether your own town has climbed onto our map of known camera locations, and if it has, use our take-action guide to push your council to have the same conversation Auburn just did.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of The Citizen Newspaper, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.