Opposition to Flock cameras is uniting right and left faster than Donald Trump's insider trading
The short version: ElkGroveNews captures Elk Grove council comments showing left and right voters converging against Flock ALPR cameras, proof surveillance fatigue crosses party lines.
Our Take
Credit to ElkGroveNews for getting cameras rolling inside an Elk Grove City Council meeting, because public comment is where this fight actually gets decided. The headline says it plainly: opposition to Flock is uniting people who agree on almost nothing else. When a city council chamber becomes the one place where MAGA hats and progressive tote bags nod at the same testimony, that's not a fluke. It's a signal that automated license plate readers have become a rare bipartisan nerve: nobody wants a private company logging their daily movements and handing that data to whoever asks.
That convergence matters because Flock Safety's business model depends on the opposite happening — on this staying a niche, partisan-coded issue that gets steamrolled through council votes with little scrutiny. Once residents realize ALPR networks don't care about your politics, just your plate, the political cover these contracts usually enjoy starts to evaporate. Elk Grove is just one city, but these meetings are happening in hundreds of towns right now, often with little public notice until the cameras are already bolted to the poles.
If you want to know whether your own city already has this infrastructure installed, check our camera map, and if you're ready to show up at your own council meeting like these Elk Grove residents did, our take-action guide walks you through it.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of ElkGroveNews, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.