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Our Take

This clip from Krishan Jakhar isn't about Flock Safety specifically — it's a straightforward how-to on mounting and wiring an ANPR/CCTV rig, the kind of setup-and-sell content installers post to drum up business. There's no policy debate here, no data retention discussion, just hardware going on a pole. But that's exactly why it's worth a mention: automated license plate reading has become commodity tech. You don't need a police contract or a city council vote to deploy a camera that logs every plate that passes by. Any landlord, HOA, or business owner with a credit card can do it.

That's the uncomfortable backdrop to the broader ALPR conversation. When the barrier to entry is this low, the sprawl of plate-reading cameras isn't just a Flock Safety problem — it's a general proliferation problem. Thousands of installers are putting up thousands of cameras with zero standardized rules on how long footage is kept, who can access it, or whether it gets fed into shared databases. Multiply videos like this one across the country and you get a patchwork surveillance net that nobody voted for and most people don't know exists.

We track the networked, law-enforcement-grade side of this on our camera map, but installer content like this is a good gut-check that the technology itself has no guardrails baked in — the guardrails have to come from policy and public pressure. If that's news to your city council, our take-action page has a starting point.