Flock Demands Map of Their Cameras Come Down
The short version: TacticalTurtleneck reports Flock Safety is pressuring creators to delete maps of its ALPR network, a move that reeks of surveillance-by-obscurity.
Our Take
TacticalTurtleneck's video lays out something we've suspected for a while: Flock Safety doesn't just want to blanket your town in license plate cameras, it wants to control who gets to know where those cameras are. Demanding a public map come down isn't a privacy protection — it's a transparency problem. If a company's surveillance network can't survive public documentation, that tells you everything about how comfortable they are with public accountability.
This is the same playbook we've seen elsewhere: the people building dragnet surveillance infrastructure get nervous the moment ordinary citizens start mapping it themselves. A camera on a public pole, pointed at a public road, isn't a trade secret. Knowing where ALPRs sit is basic information residents need to understand how they're being tracked — not a threat to anyone's operations.
We built our own camera map precisely because this information keeps disappearing or getting buried. Credit to TacticalTurtleneck for surfacing this fight — it's a reminder that mapping and documenting these systems is itself a form of resistance. If you want to push back where you live, check out our take-action resources and get involved.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of TacticalTurtleneck, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.