Shaping a Safer Community in Brookhaven, Georgia
The short version: Flock's own promo video touts Brookhaven, GA success stories, but a company-made highlight reel isn't the same as independent proof that ALPR dragnets make us safer.
Our Take
This video comes straight from Flock Safety's own marketing team, not an independent journalist or city auditor — worth keeping in mind before taking the "community trust" framing at face value. A kidnapping recovery and out-of-state suspect arrests are the kind of anecdotes Flock leans on in every pitch to city councils, and they're real wins worth acknowledging. But a handful of success stories doesn't tell you how many plates get scanned, stored, and cross-referenced for every actual crime solved, or who else gets access to that data down the line.
"Drone as first responder" and "Live 911" sound like efficiency upgrades, but they're really just more sensors feeding the same corporate database — one that's grown into a nationwide tracking network most residents never voted on. Brookhaven's police sergeant calls Flock "the connecting piece," and that's exactly the problem: once a city plugs into Flock's system, its cameras aren't just watching that city anymore, they're part of a searchable grid that can follow anyone, anywhere, for any reason an officer decides to type into a search box.
If you want to see whether your own neighborhood has quietly joined that grid, check our camera map, and if you'd rather your city not be the subject of Flock's next promo video, our take-action guide has the steps for pushing back before the contract gets signed.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Flock, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.