The Cameras Work 24/7. Accountability Has Office Hours | Edgar Mote #flocksafety
The short version: Edgar Mote skewers Flock Safety's reported auto-reply joking about 'touching grass' while its cameras scan plates nonstop, exposing a glaring accountability gap.
Our Take
Edgar Mote's title says it all: the cameras run around the clock, but the company behind them apparently can't be bothered to answer basic press questions outside of business hours — or maybe ever. If Futurism's reporting is accurate, Flock Safety's canned reply joking about its media team "touching grass" while multiple newsrooms try to get answers is the kind of tone-deaf moment that tells you everything about how seriously this industry takes public scrutiny.
That's the core problem with ALPR networks blanketing American towns: the infrastructure is relentless and automated, but the oversight is whatever a company's PR department feels like offering that week. Cops get instant hits on every plate that rolls by, but journalists and residents asking who sees that data, how long it's kept, and who it's shared with get a joke and a shrug. Mote's framing nails the asymmetry — surveillance never clocks out, accountability apparently does.
This is exactly why independent tracking matters. If the companies running these networks won't take basic transparency requests seriously, residents need their own eyes on where the cameras actually are. Check our camera map to see what's near you, and if you want to push back on deployments in your town, our take-action page has concrete steps.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Not Not the News with Edgar Mote, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.