Join Our Campaign & Tell Home Depot & Lowe's: DROP FLOCK!

Our Take

Cut Off the Spigot is zeroing in on a soft underbelly of the surveillance state: corporate contracts. Flock Safety doesn't just sell to police departments — it's quietly woven itself into retail parking lots and private shopping centers too, often with little public disclosure. If Home Depot and Lowe's are hosting these cameras, that means ordinary customers running errands for lumber and lightbulbs are getting their plates logged, timestamped, and fed into a nationwide database they never agreed to.

This is exactly the kind of pressure point that matters. Flock's business model depends on normalization — getting enough landlords, HOAs, and big-box retailers to install cameras so that opting out of surveillance becomes practically impossible. A consumer-facing campaign against two of the largest home improvement chains in the country forces a conversation these companies would rather avoid: do they want to be known as surveillance partners, or do they want to keep customers who value their privacy?

We credit Cut Off the Spigot for turning a corporate accountability campaign into something the public can actually act on. If you want to see where Flock and other ALPR cameras are already deployed near you, check our camera map, and if you're ready to push back against this creeping network, our take-action resources can help you get started.