Why Flock Cameras are Tracking Your Car | The AI Surveillance State is Here
The short version: Battle Born Progress digs into Las Vegas Metro's Flock network and asks the question every city should be asking: who watches the watchers?
Our Take
Battle Born Progress lays out something we've been saying since day one: Flock Safety's pitch is crime-solving, but the product is a permanent record of everywhere your car goes, whether you've ever broken a law or not. The Las Vegas Metro angle they highlight is worth sitting with — a private donor bankrolling police surveillance infrastructure means even the usual thin layer of public budget scrutiny gets skipped entirely. Nobody votes on that. Nobody debates it at a city council meeting. It just shows up.
The examples the video points to — cops running plates on exes, a Texas sheriff's office searching a national camera network to track down a woman tied to an abortion — aren't edge cases anymore. They're the predictable result of building a nationwide plate-tracking system first and figuring out oversight later, if ever. Flock's own audit logs have caught officers misusing access again and again, and the company's response is usually a strongly worded email, not a shutdown. That's not accountability, that's a PR function.
This is exactly why we built the map — because most people have no idea how many of these cameras are already clocking their daily commute. If Las Vegas Metro's setup sounds familiar, it's probably because a version of it is running in your town too. Check the map, then head to take action to find out how to push back at the local level, where these decisions actually get made.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Battle Born Progress, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.