Flock cameras pulled again in Grass Valley after vendor reinstalls them
The short version: A Flock vendor quietly reinstalled cameras in Grass Valley after police had already pulled them, forcing a second takedown.
Our Take
Credit to Action News Now for catching this one: Grass Valley police yanked Flock Safety cameras once, and somehow they ended up back on the poles anyway — reinstalled by a third-party vendor who apparently didn't get the memo. That's not a conspiracy, it's just how these deployments work. Flock manages a sprawling contractor network installing and servicing cameras across thousands of jurisdictions, and when local oversight is thin, equipment has a way of reappearing even after a city says no.
This is the part of the ALPR story that rarely gets attention: the gap between what a city council or police chief decides and what actually happens on the ground. If a vendor can reinstall surveillance infrastructure without city knowledge, that's a serious accountability failure, not a clerical error. It raises an obvious question for every town with Flock cameras — who actually controls the off switch, the city or the company?
Grass Valley residents caught this because someone was paying attention. Most communities aren't so lucky. Check our camera map to see what's logged near you, and if your town is dealing with a similar fight, our take-action page has tools for pushing back before the cameras quietly go back up.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Action News Now, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.