Democrat ROASTS Flock CEOs: “They’re nervous about being on camera”

Our Take

Credit to Brian Tyler Cohen for putting a camera on the people who profit from putting cameras on your car. When a company builds its entire business model around surveilling the public, it's more than a little ironic that its executives get squeamish the moment the lens turns around. That discomfort is telling — it suggests even Flock's own leadership knows how this looks when the public is actually paying attention.

This is the pattern we keep seeing: ALPR companies and the police departments that buy their gear love blanket coverage of your license plate, your location, your daily movements, but they clam up when a lawmaker asks basic accountability questions. No national privacy law requires them to answer. No consistent audit requires them to show their work. That gap is exactly why local pushback matters — city councils, not Congress, are where most of these contracts get approved or killed.

If a clip like this makes you want to know whether your own neighborhood has been quietly wired up, check our camera map and see what's actually out there. And if you want to do more than watch lawmakers squirm, our take-action page has concrete steps for pushing back where you live.