Video: Pryor Creek City Council to vote on adding Flock Cameras

Our Take

FOX23 News Tulsa's short segment captures a scene playing out in city halls across the country: a small council chamber, a Flock Safety sales pitch about cutting crime, and a vote that will quietly expand a nationwide license plate surveillance network. Pryor Creek is a small town, but the data its cameras collect doesn't stay small — it flows into a searchable system that other agencies, and sometimes federal ones, can tap into with far less oversight than most residents assume.

What's missing from these local news segments, and often from the council debates themselves, is any real accounting of who else gets access to the data, how long it's retained, and what happens when the system misidentifies a car or gets used for something well outside "crime fighting." Flock markets itself as a tool for solving car thefts and Amber Alerts, but the infrastructure it builds is a permanent record of everyone's movements, sold to a town on the promise of safety with few guardrails attached.

If you're in Pryor Creek or anywhere near it, this is the moment to show up to that council meeting and ask hard questions before the vote, not after the cameras go up. Check our camera map to see what's already tracking your area, and visit our take-action page for tools to push back before local surveillance becomes permanent infrastructure.