Policías Enojados Con Las Cámaras FLOCK

Our Take

Caza Migras, a channel built around documenting immigration-enforcement abuses, turns its lens on Flock Safety cameras and the apparent discomfort some police have with how visible and talked-about this network has become. That tension is worth paying attention to: when officers themselves start pushing back on a system, it's usually because the public is finally asking who else gets to see what these cameras capture, and why.

This is the core problem with Flock's pitch. Departments buy these ALPR networks promising they're for stolen cars and amber alerts, but the data doesn't stay in a neat box. It gets shared across jurisdictions, pooled in regional and national search networks, and in immigration enforcement contexts, that kind of location-tracking infrastructure is exactly what makes targeting communities easier, regardless of what any single local agency intended when it signed the contract.

Whether you're in California or anywhere else these cameras have gone up, the lesson is the same: mass surveillance infrastructure doesn't respect the original use case once it exists. Check our camera map to see what's tracking your plates right now, and visit take-action for ways to push back at the local level before the next camera goes up.