No more Flock cameras in Arlington #arlingtonrealestate

Our Take

Johnny Mendez's short clip on Arlington is a good example of how these fights often play out at the hyperlocal level — not in Congress, but in city council chambers and neighborhood Facebook groups. When a community pushes back hard enough on a Flock Safety contract, sometimes the cameras don't go up at all, or come down after the fact. That's worth celebrating, even in a 60-second real estate video.

We don't have the full backstory here — what prompted the reversal, whether it was budget, privacy concerns, or public records requests exposing how the data was being used — but the pattern itself matters. Flock's pitch to city councils is almost always the same: crime deterrence, minimal oversight needed. Residents who actually dig into retention policies, data-sharing agreements, and who else can query the plate reads are the ones who end up changing outcomes.

If you're in Arlington or anywhere else wondering whether ALPRs are already watching your street, check our camera map to see what's been documented near you, and if you want to push back like Arlington apparently did, our take-action page has the tools to start.