HOW DO WE GET THE FLOCK OUT? Start Local.#gettheflockout #privacymatters #civilliberties
The short version: L.F.P. Family's video makes the case that beating Flock Safety starts with local records requests, council meetings, and contracts — not Washington.
Our Take
L.F.P. Family's video lands on a point we hammer on constantly: this fight is won or lost at the city council level, not in some federal hearing room. ALPR networks get installed because a handful of people on a council or a police chief signed off on a contract most residents never saw. Find that paperwork, find that vote, and you find your leverage.
The advice to request contracts and figure out who actually approved the cameras is exactly the kind of boring, unglamorous work that actually moves the needle. Flock's business model depends on nobody asking questions — quiet procurement, quiet renewals, quiet data-sharing agreements with other agencies and sometimes federal partners. Public records requests blow that quiet up, and they put decision-makers on record before their neighbors.
If you want to see where this is already happening near you, check our camera map to find local deployments, then head to our take-action page for templates and steps to start asking your own council the same questions. Credit to L.F.P. Family for keeping the focus local — that's where the Flock actually gets pushed out.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of L.F.P. Family, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.