Why Flock Safety's Massive Camera Network Is Under Fire

Our Take

Riley Blanton's framing cuts right to it: Flock Safety's leadership keeps treating public backlash like a messaging problem, something a better press release or a softer talking point can fix. It isn't. What's actually happening is that ordinary people are discovering, often by accident, that a camera on their street is logging every car that passes and feeding that data into a nationwide network they never consented to and can't opt out of. That's not a perception issue. That's the product working exactly as designed.

We'd add that this is bigger than one company's comms strategy. Flock didn't build a system that reads your plate once — it built one that reads it everywhere, stitches your movements together across thousands of jurisdictions, and hands that history to whoever has access, with minimal transparency about retention, sharing, or oversight. When a CEO calls that an "information war," what he's really acknowledging is that the public is starting to understand the architecture, not just the marketing copy.

That's the fight we're part of. The more people who can see exactly where these cameras are and how the network actually functions, the harder it gets for any company to control the narrative. Check our map to see what's been documented near you, and if you want to push back locally, our take-action page has concrete next steps.