Gwinnett residents demand county cancel Flock cameras contract

Our Take

Credit to WSB-TV for capturing something you don't see often enough: a room full of regular people standing up to tell their county commission that 1,100 license plate readers is not the kind of "public safety" investment they signed up for. Gwinnett County isn't a small pilot program — it's one of the denser ALPR deployments we've tracked anywhere, and the public pushback shown in this report is exactly the kind of scrutiny these contracts almost never get before they're signed.

That's the real story here. Flock Safety contracts routinely get approved in consent-agenda votes with little debate, long before residents realize their daily movements are being logged, timestamped, and shared across a growing network of agencies. By the time people show up to object, the hardware is often already bolted to the poles. Gwinnett residents are pushing back anyway, and that matters — public comment, FOIA requests, and consistent pressure at commission meetings are still some of the only levers communities have against a surveillance system that expands by default.

If you want to see how saturated your own area already is, check our camera map, and if you're ready to organize against a new or existing contract, our take-action page has the tools to help you do what Gwinnett is doing right now.