License Plate Capture & Recognition Security Cameras by RSI Audio Video Security in Richmond MI

Our Take

This isn't a Flock promo, it's arguably more revealing: a local security integrator, RSI Audio Video Security in Richmond, MI, walking through how easy it is to bolt plate-reading cameras onto any business or residence. No city council vote, no public records request, no community debate — just a sales pitch for hardware that logs every vehicle that passes by.

That's the real story of ALPR sprawl in America. It's not only police departments and Flock Safety deploying networked readers; it's small AV shops selling "recognition" cameras as a routine upsell, often with little thought to how long plate data is kept, who can access it, or whether it ever gets shared into larger law enforcement or private databases. Once a camera can read and log plates, it's a surveillance node, whether the installer frames it that way or not.

Credit to RSI Audio Video Security for showing plainly how normalized this equipment has become at the retail level. If you want to see how many of these cameras, retail-installed or otherwise, are already watching roads near you, check our map, and if you'd rather push back than just watch, our take-action page has concrete steps.