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FOX6 NOW: Meeting on Flock cameras, Brewers manager Pat Murphy talks, and tracking rain

FOX6 News Milwaukee · 4 days ago

The short version: A Milwaukee-area FOX6 segment flags a local meeting on Flock cameras, a reminder that these fights are happening city council by city council, often buried between sports and weather.

Our Take

Credit to FOX6 News Milwaukee for even mentioning a community meeting on Flock Safety cameras, though it's telling that it got sandwiched between Brewers chatter and a rain forecast. That's often how ALPR expansion happens in real life — quietly, as a footnote, while residents are busy with everything else going on in their news cycle.

We don't have the specifics of what was discussed at this particular meeting, but the pattern across the country is familiar: a police department or city council quietly moves to add or renew a Flock contract, often with little public debate about retention periods, data sharing agreements, or who else gets access to the plate reads once they're logged. These are the questions residents should be pushing local officials to answer out loud, not in a press release.

If you're in Wisconsin or anywhere else and want to see what's already been deployed near you, check our camera map. And if a meeting like this is happening in your town, don't wait for it to be buried in a weather segment — show up, ask questions, and use our take-action resources to push back before the cameras go up, not after.

This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of FOX6 News Milwaukee, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.