flock makes safety easier, but cost us our privacy #392boogs #flockcameras #dadecounty #tommyg

Our Take

Credit to 392Boogs Live for boiling down the Flock debate into one honest line: it makes safety easier, but it costs us our privacy. That's the whole ballgame in a sentence, and it's refreshing to see it said plainly instead of buried in a city council press release about 'community safety technology.'

We don't have the receipts on what's actually deployed in Dade County from this clip alone, and we're not going to pretend otherwise. But the sentiment tracks with what we hear from residents everywhere Flock rolls out: nobody voted on this, nobody got a real choice, and now every drive to the grocery store gets logged, timestamped, and stored in a database that police departments across the country can query. That's not a neighborhood watch, that's a surveillance dragnet with a friendly logo.

If you want to know whether cameras like the ones this video is talking about are sitting on your street right now, check our map. And if Dade County — or your county — is voting on new ALPR contracts, don't wait for a streamer to say it for you; go say it yourself. Start at our take-action page.