“If You Want to Surveil Me, Get a Warrant”: Ron Gould Raises Fourth Amendment Alarm in Mohave County

Our Take

Credit to Jen's Two Cents (Jen & Friends Podcast) for capturing a moment that's rare in local government footage: an elected official naming the surveillance mosaic for what it is. Supervisor Ron Gould's line — that counties are using local tax dollars to help "create a nationwide surveillance system" — isn't hyperbole. It's an accurate description of how Flock Safety's networked cameras function once enough jurisdictions sign on and start sharing data across state lines.

What makes this clip notable isn't just the Fourth Amendment framing, it's where it's coming from. Mohave County is deep red, rural Arizona — not the demographic Flock's marketing usually worries about pushback from. When a conservative supervisor starts talking about warrants and mosaic surveillance, it's a signal that unease over ALPRs is bipartisan and spreading past the usual coastal privacy advocates. That's exactly the kind of coalition that can actually slow this stuff down at the county level, where most of these contracts get approved with little scrutiny.

If you want to know whether your own neighborhood already feeds this network, check our camera map, and if a county near you is about to renew or expand a Flock contract, our take-action page has the tools to show up and ask the same questions Gould did.