Local neighborhood has black bagged their flock cameras
The short version: A Georgia neighborhood reportedly covered its Flock Safety cameras with black bags, a small but telling act of resistance highlighted by state senate candidate Alec Miller.
Our Take
When residents start physically bagging surveillance cameras, that's not vandalism for its own sake — it's a signal that trust has run out. Flock Safety markets its ALPR network as a quiet, consent-free utility installed by HOAs or local police, often with minimal public input. Alec Miller's video shows what happens when a community decides it never actually agreed to being tracked every time it drives past a pole.
We can't verify every detail of this specific incident, but the broader pattern is familiar: residents discover cameras after the fact, raise objections, and get told the system is already paid for and the data already flowing to police databases and sometimes federal agencies. A black trash bag over a camera housing is a blunt tool, but it's also a pretty clear referendum on how much input neighbors actually had before their street became a checkpoint.
Credit to Alec Miller for amplifying this story as part of a broader conversation about surveillance accountability in Georgia. If you want to know whether your own neighborhood has one of these cameras, check our map, and if you'd rather organize than improvise with trash bags, our take-action guide walks through the legal ways to push back.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Alec Miller for Georgia State Senate 31, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.