Dr. Viet Trinh says Flock Cameras treat EVERYONE as suspects for crime. #Flock #Colombus #News
The short version: Kacee Allen's video features Dr. Viet Trinh arguing Flock cameras flip the presumption of innocence by scanning every driver in Columbus as a potential suspect.
Our Take
That's the core problem with blanket ALPR deployment in a nutshell: you don't have to be accused of anything to end up in the database. Dr. Trinh's framing — that these systems treat everyone as a suspect — cuts through the usual "if you've got nothing to hide" deflection. A camera doesn't know the difference between a commuter, a nurse working a night shift, or someone fleeing a bad situation. It just logs the plate, the time, the location, and files it away.
Columbus is one more city on a long list where local officials signed up for this technology with little public debate about what happens to the data afterward, who can query it, or how long it sits in a database waiting to be subpoenaed, hacked, or misused. Credit to Kacee Allen for getting a researcher on record saying the quiet part out loud instead of letting city press releases frame this as purely a crime-fighting tool.
If you want to see whether there's a Flock camera logging your daily commute, check our camera map, and if you'd rather not wait for your city council to ask the hard questions, our take-action page has steps for pushing back.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Kacee Allen, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.