PRIVACY WIN #2: Major Blow to Flock in Indiana
The short version: Indiana's Senate voted 37-10 to bar HOAs from running their own ALPR networks, a rare legislative check on neighborhood-level plate surveillance.
Our Take
Credit to Business Reform for flagging this one, because it's easy to miss: most ALPR fights focus on police departments and Flock's city contracts, but a huge chunk of camera sprawl actually comes from homeowners associations bolting readers onto entrance gates with zero oversight, zero public records process, and zero accountability to anyone but a property management company. Indiana lawmakers just told HOAs that tracking every car that drives past a subdivision sign is not a neighborhood amenity, it's a surveillance system, and a 37-10 Senate vote is about as lopsided as it gets on a privacy bill.
What makes this notable is the mechanism. HOA-run ALPR networks have been a quiet loophole nationwide — private entities deploying the same Flock-style cameras as police, often feeding data into shared regional networks, but without the warrant requirements, retention limits, or FOIA exposure that at least nominally constrain government use. If Governor Braun signs this or simply lets the clock run out, Indiana becomes a rare case where a state legislature closed that loophole instead of expanding it.
Don't assume your own subdivision is clean just because this bill passed — check our camera map to see what's actually logging plates near you, and if you want to push similar reform in your state, our take-action page has the tools to start.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Business Reform, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.