Flock Safety camera backlash, NV Energy data center lawsuit & top-5 angry Gold ’N Silver comments
The short version: This Is Reno's Bob Conrad and Kristen Hackbarth tackle Flock Safety backlash alongside local data center and community controversies, proving ALPR pushback is a local news staple now.
Our Take
When a local news podcast in Reno is covering Flock Safety backlash in the same breath as data center lawsuits and angry comment sections, you know the surveillance conversation has officially gone mainstream. Credit to Bob Conrad and Kristen Hackbarth at This Is Reno for giving the camera backlash real airtime instead of burying it under the usual "public safety tool" framing that Flock's PR machine prefers.
What's notable here isn't just that another city is grappling with these cameras — it's that the backlash is now newsworthy enough to share a segment with a utility-scale data center fight. That's the pattern we keep seeing nationwide: communities find out about ALPR networks after the fact, push back, and local reporters are left connecting dots between corporate infrastructure, data collection, and who actually benefits. Reno's doing exactly that work.
If you're in Nevada or anywhere else wondering whether a Flock camera has already gone up on your street, check our map before you assume it hasn't. And if your city council hasn't had this conversation yet, our take-action page has what you need to make sure they do.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Thisis Reno, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.