Flock Cameras: Privacy Invasion or Public Safety? #shorts
The short version: A short from Revenge Of The Cis spotlights the rare left-right consensus forming against Flock Safety cameras as more cities start pulling the plug.
Our Take
Credit where it's due: Revenge Of The Cis packs a real point into a short-form video — opposition to Flock Safety's ALPR network isn't a partisan hobby horse. When small-government conservatives and privacy-minded progressives end up on the same side of an issue, that's usually a sign the issue itself is bigger than politics. Mass license plate surveillance, quietly bankrolled by city budgets and installed without much public debate, is exactly that kind of issue.
The 'public safety' pitch always sounds reasonable in a council meeting. What gets left out is the part where every plate, every driver, every trip to a church, clinic, protest, or divorce attorney gets logged into a searchable database that outlives the crime it was supposedly meant to solve. Cities walking back these contracts aren't doing it because crime got solved overnight — they're doing it because residents started asking who actually has access to that data, for how long, and why a private company gets to hold the keys.
If your town has Flock cameras, you likely don't know it from a press release — you find out by spotting the boxy gray pole cameras yourself. Check our camera map to see what's already been documented near you, and if you want to push back locally, our take-action page has the tools to start.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Revenge Of The Cis, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.