Flock Safety has felt the heat this summer
The short version: A YouTuber rounds up the summer's mounting backlash against Flock Safety, and it's a sign the ALPR surveillance debate is finally breaking through.
Our Take
Credit to Herbiggestflex for stitching together what those of us watching this space have felt building for months: Flock Safety is having a rough summer, and not because of some coordinated conspiracy against them, but because ordinary people in city council meetings from coast to coast are starting to ask the obvious question — why does my town have a database tracking everywhere my car goes, who has access to it, and who's actually watching the watchers?
That heat is earned. Flock's pitch has always been "find the bad guy," but the technology doesn't discriminate between a stolen car and your commute to therapy, your visit to a divorce attorney, or your drive to an out-of-state clinic. Once that data exists, it exists for subpoenas, for data-sharing agreements with agencies you've never heard of, and for breaches nobody budgeted for. A single viral video can't fix that, but it can do something valuable: it can get more residents to stop assuming this is settled policy and start asking their own city councils hard questions.
If this story has you wondering whether your own neighborhood is wired up, check our camera map to see what's already been documented near you, and if you want to actually push back — at a council meeting, in a public records request, or just in a conversation with a neighbor — our take-action resources are built for exactly that.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Herbiggestflex, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.