Ban data centers in residential communities and federal funding for Flock cameras.

Our Take

When a sitting member of Congress puts "federal funding for Flock cameras" in the same breath as reining in data centers, it's a signal that ALPR sprawl is finally registering as a political liability, not just a local nuisance. Rep. Ro Khanna's framing matters because so much of Flock's growth has been bankrolled indirectly through federal grant programs that small towns and sheriff's departments lean on to justify these systems without ever putting them to a real public vote.

We don't have the full transcript or bill text here, so we're not going to pretend we know the mechanics of what Khanna is proposing. But the instinct to cut off federal money as a lever against surveillance creep is exactly the kind of structural fix that outlasts any single city council vote on a Flock contract. Local wins get reversed; funding bans at the federal level are harder to quietly undo.

Credit to Rep. Khanna for putting this on the record. If you want to see how far this network has already spread in your own backyard, check our camera map, and if you'd rather not wait on Congress, our take-action page has steps you can push on right now.