Residents question doubling Flock cameras
The short version: A Northern Kentucky city quietly doubled its Flock camera network for $12,000, and FOX19's report shows residents finding out only after the vote.
Our Take
FOX19 NOW's report out of Cincinnati captures a pattern we see over and over: a city council approves more ALPR cameras with a line-item vote, and the public learns about it after the money's already spent. Twelve grand doesn't sound like much until you realize it's buying four more devices that log every car that passes, building a searchable record of where residents go and when — no warrant required.
What stands out in this segment is the residents pushing back, asking the obvious questions: who has access to this data, how long is it kept, and why does a small city need to double its surveillance footprint in the first place. Those are exactly the questions Flock Safety and local governments rarely answer with any specificity, and that vagueness is the point of watchdog reporting like this.
Credit to FOX19 NOW for putting cameras in front of the people actually affected instead of just running the company's talking points. If you want to see how many of these units are already watching your own commute, check our camera map, and if your town is about to have this same closed-door vote, our take-action resources can help you get ahead of it.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of FOX19 NOW | Cincinnati, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.