Growing backlash, privacy concerns over Flock cameras

Our Take

It says something when a mainstream outlet like ABC's Good Morning America, via reporter Aaron Katersky, is covering Americans taking matters into their own hands against Flock Safety cameras. Zip-tied bags over lenses, cut wires, cameras ripped clean off their poles — this isn't fringe behavior anymore, it's a signal that ordinary people in ordinary towns feel like nobody asked them before a private company's camera showed up on their street logging every car that passes.

We don't endorse vandalism, and destroying a camera doesn't fix the underlying problem: these networks are still growing, still trading plate data between agencies with little oversight, and still capable of tracking your daily movements without a warrant. The backlash is a symptom of a real accountability gap — most residents never got a public hearing, never saw a policy, and never had a real say before their city signed a contract with Flock. That frustration boiling over into direct action tells you the normal channels for consent aren't working.

If you want to know what's actually watching you, check our camera map to see Flock deployments near you, and if you'd rather push back the right way — public records requests, city council meetings, organizing your neighbors — head over to our take-action page for real tools that don't end with a criminal record.