Flock Contract Cancellations✊🏽
The short version: A new video from PeekAboo-AI Surveillance spotlights communities pushing back on Flock Safety by packing town halls and pressing councils to cancel ALPR contracts.
Our Take
PeekAboo-AI Surveillance is tracking something we've been watching closely too: ordinary residents showing up at city council meetings and actually winning. Flock Safety's pitch to local governments has always relied on low visibility — quiet votes, quiet renewals, quiet expansion. When neighbors fill the room and ask hard questions about retention, data sharing, and who really has access to that license plate database, the math changes fast for elected officials who'd rather avoid a fight.
What this video captures is the early version of a pattern we expect to keep repeating: public awareness catching up to deployment. Flock cameras went up in thousands of towns with minimal debate, often sold as a tool against car theft or missing persons, with little discussion of the broader surveillance network they create once interconnected. Contract cancellations, even scattered ones, are proof that organized, informed pushback can reverse decisions that felt locked in.
Credit to the channel for documenting this grassroots momentum. If you want to see whether Flock or other ALPR systems are already active near you, check our camera map, and if you're ready to go to your own town hall, our take-action resources can help you get organized before the next contract renewal vote.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of PeekAboo-AI Surveillance, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.