Bill aims to block flock cameras
The short version: A new bill to firewall federal access to Flock camera data is a start, but it doesn't stop local police and private companies from building the surveillance net in the first place.
Our Take
KCEN News is flagging a bill that would keep the feds from reaching into Flock Safety's ALPR network and pulling local data for federal purposes. Good — that's a real problem, and lawmakers are right to worry about a backdoor national surveillance system built on thousands of local cameras nobody voted to connect. But let's be clear about what this kind of bill does and doesn't do.
It doesn't stop a single camera from going up. It doesn't stop local police from running your plate through a database shared with hundreds of other agencies, or stop that data from getting subpoenaed, hacked, or quietly shared anyway through informal agreements that bills like this rarely anticipate. Flock's whole business model depends on data flowing between agencies with minimal oversight — a federal firewall is a patch, not a fix, for a system built to be porous by design.
If you want to know whether this fight has actually reached your town, check our camera map to see what's already watching your streets, and use our take-action resources to push your local council for real transparency and limits — before the next bill is just cleaning up after the last camera.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of KCENNews, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.