My testimony at Dunwoody, GA city council hearing regarding a Flock Safety contract.

Our Take

Credit where it's due: Benn Jordan showed up and said his piece, and so did a lot of his neighbors in Dunwoody. That's exactly how this fight is supposed to work — not just online outrage, but bodies in council chambers, public comment on the record, and elected officials forced to look their constituents in the eye before they sign a check to Flock Safety. The fact that so many people turned out to raise concerns should have mattered. Whether it actually moved the needle is the infuriating part, and it's a story we hear from city after city: public comment treated as a formality to get through before the vote everyone already planned to take.

This is the pattern DeFlock exists to document. Local governments frame ALPR contracts as routine procurement — a line item, a vendor renewal — when really they're expanding a surveillance network that tracks every car, every driver, every trip, with almost no judicial oversight and a data-sharing web that extends far past city limits. Dunwoody residents pushing back on that framing, in person, is the model other communities should be following before their own council votes, not after.

If you want to see whether Flock cameras are already watching your commute, check our camera map, and if your city is about to have its own Dunwoody moment, our take-action page has what you need to show up prepared.