Flock Showed Cops How to Watch Protesters 🦊🚔 #Flock #Surveillance

Our Take

Credit to Sly Decodes for surfacing this one: a leaked Flock Safety training webinar, originally published by 404 Media, in which the company's own staff walk officers through monitoring a real Denver protest in real time — watching crowds move through a park and flagging when the 'environment is starting to shift.' This isn't hypothetical misuse. It's Flock's sales pitch, using an actual demonstration and protest as the example case.

This matters because Flock has spent years telling cities its cameras are just for solving car thefts and Amber Alerts. The webinar says otherwise: FlockOS is being marketed explicitly as a 'Real-Time Crime Center' platform for 'unexpected protests,' fusing license plate data, live camera feeds, drones, and 911 calls into a single dashboard built for watching crowds, not just cars. When a company's own training materials describe tracking a demonstration like a security threat, the First Amendment chilling effect isn't a side effect — it's a feature being taught to customers.

If your town has Flock cameras, this is exactly the kind of capability your city council was never told about when they approved the contract. Check our map to see what's near you, and use our take-action guide to push for answers before the next protest becomes a dashboard demo.