Part two of city council speech to abolish flock and ALPR cameras. #flocksafety #liberty #alpr

Our Take

Credit to Clearly Right for staying in the fight long enough to make a part two. Most people get three minutes at a podium, say their piece once, and move on. Coming back for round two tells you the council didn't budge the first time — which is exactly how these fights usually go. Flock Safety's pitch to local governments is smooth and well-funded, and it often takes repeat pressure from residents just to get officials to acknowledge there's a debate at all.

We don't have the transcript, and we're not going to pretend we do, but the core issue is always the same: these systems log the movements of every driver, innocent or not, into a searchable database that can be queried by other agencies, sometimes with little oversight and even less public visibility. A council that approves this quietly on a consent agenda is making a surveillance decision for an entire community without the community really weighing in. That's why speeches like this one matter — they put the decision back in the open, on the record.

If your own city or county is considering, expanding, or already running ALPR cameras, don't wait for someone else to show up at the mic. Check our camera map to see what's already deployed near you, and use our take-action resources to figure out how to raise this with your own council before it's buried in a budget line.