I Found A Flock Camera In The Wild!

Our Take

saveitforparts built a following on curiosity-driven teardowns of tech most people never get to touch, and pointing that lens at a Flock Safety camera is a genuinely useful public service. These devices sit on utility poles and street corners in thousands of towns, quietly logging every plate that passes, yet almost nobody outside law enforcement and Flock's own engineers has actually cracked one open to see what's inside. A creator with a track record of methodical, honest teardowns turning that curiosity toward ALPR hardware is exactly the kind of independent scrutiny this industry avoids.

We don't know yet what the full video will show — this is just a teaser — so we're not going to speculate about specs or vulnerabilities before the real footage drops. But the fact that a private company's camera can apparently just be found sitting out in public, accessible enough to inspect, says something on its own about how these networks get deployed with minimal transparency or public input. Communities routinely learn about Flock installations after the fact, if they learn at all.

If you want to know whether one of these is already watching your street, check our camera map, and if you'd rather your town not have one at all, our take-action page has concrete steps for pushing back at the city council level. Credit to saveitforparts for pointing a camera at the cameras — we'll be watching for the full breakdown.