Flock Camera Found Cut Down in Yakima, WA #flock #surveillance #camera

Our Take

Credit to Sky's Shutter Media for getting boots on the ground in Yakima and documenting this instead of just sharing a screenshot. A Flock pole and camera down near 66th and Englewood, with no clear culprit and no clear timeline, tells you something important on its own: nobody is rushing to claim it, and law enforcement doesn't seem to be rushing to explain it either. That silence is its own kind of data point about how these deployments actually work in practice.

This isn't an isolated incident, it's part of a pattern spreading across the country as people realize just how much of their daily movement is being logged, stored, and shared by systems they never voted on and often didn't know existed. Whether you see a downed pole as vandalism or as a predictable reaction to unaccountable surveillance infrastructure, it's a signal that communities are pushing back in whatever ways are available to them, sanctioned or not.

We'd rather people fight this in city council meetings and public records requests than with bolt cutters, but that only works if residents know a camera is there in the first place. Check our map to see what's watching your own streets, and head to take action for legal, organized ways to push back before frustration boils over into someone's pole being found on the ground.