Barboursville Village Council Stance On Flock Cameras July 14, 2026

Our Take

Credit to creator Jacob Tyler Mitchell for documenting a small-town council meeting that's easy to overlook but matters a lot. According to the video, Mitchell made a public comment against Flock Safety cameras in Barboursville, Village, and the mayor responded by praising the local police department and pointedly contrasting the council's stance with Huntington's, where Mayor Ferrell and that city council have moved forward with ALPR deployment.

This is exactly the kind of local friction point where mass surveillance infrastructure either gets rubber-stamped or gets stopped — not in Congress, not in a courtroom, but in a folding chair at a village council meeting. When elected officials publicly say their existing police work is good enough without a network of AI-powered plate readers logging every car that passes through town, that's a meaningful check, especially set against a neighboring city moving in the opposite direction. It's a reminder that these fights are hyper-local and winnable when residents actually show up and speak.

If you want to see what's already been installed near you, or in towns like Huntington that have gone the other way, check our camera map. And if a Flock proposal is creeping onto an agenda in your town, our take-action resources can help you make the case before it's a done deal.