Seattle Neighborhood Looks to Flock Safety to Prevent Crime
The short version: Flock's own promotional video touts a Seattle neighborhood adopting its cameras, but the company producing the 'news' segment is the same one selling the surveillance.
Our Take
This segment, aired on Fox National, comes straight from Flock Safety's own YouTube channel — which should tell you something right away. When the company selling ALPR systems also produces the glowing local news package about how great its product is, that's not journalism, that's an ad with a chyron. Nobody interviewed is asking the obvious follow-up questions: who can access this footage, how long is it kept, and what happens when a camera misreads a plate and sends police to the wrong house.
"Neighborhood looks to Flock Safety to prevent crime" is a headline built on vibes, not evidence. Independent audits in city after city have struggled to show these systems meaningfully reduce crime, even as they quietly build a nationwide database of everyone's comings and goings, shared across agencies and sometimes with ICE or out-of-state investigators pursuing cases Washington voters never agreed to help with. A neighborhood Nextdoor thread asking for "more safety" is not informed consent to blanket license-plate tracking.
If you live in or near Seattle, check our camera map to see what's already watching your street, and visit our take-action page for ways to push back before PR segments like this one become the only public debate your city council ever hears.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Flock, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.