Who Watches the Watchers? Flock Safety Data Secrets! #watching #flock #camera #safety #follow #law
The short version: A YouTuber breaks down how some cities are booting Flock Safety cameras, raising the core question of who actually oversees this surveillance data.
Our Take
Credit to the channel Put Up or Shut Up for putting a spotlight on something we track daily: the growing list of towns pushing back on Flock Safety's ALPR network. The video's framing — cities telling Flock to "get the flock out" — captures a real and growing trend. Local governments that once rubber-stamped these contracts are starting to ask basic accountability questions: who sees this data, how long is it stored, and what happens when it's shared outside city limits.
That's the real fight here. Flock's pitch is always public safety, but the infrastructure being built is a nationwide vehicle-tracking system with almost no federal oversight and wildly inconsistent local rules. When a city council votes to cut ties or pause a contract, it's not anti-safety — it's a rare moment of a community actually exercising oversight over surveillance tech that was often approved with little public debate in the first place.
If you want to see how far this network already reaches near you, check our camera map, and if your city hasn't had this conversation yet, our take-action page has the tools to start it.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Put Up or Shut Up, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.