your HOA is being sold flock cameras
The short version: HOAs are becoming a backdoor for Flock Safety to blanket neighborhoods with ALPR cameras, often with zero public oversight or resident vote.
Our Take
Credit to The Unraveling (Yersocialistdad) for flagging a pattern we've been tracking closely: Flock Safety's sales pitch isn't just aimed at police departments anymore. HOAs are a soft target. A property manager or board president gets a slick demo, the board approves a contract in a closed meeting, and suddenly every car entering the neighborhood is logged, timestamped, and stored in a database that can be shared with law enforcement. Homeowners who never got a vote are now living under surveillance they didn't sign up for.
This matters because HOA-installed ALPRs sidestep the public hearings and city council debates that at least give residents a chance to push back on police use of this tech. An HOA board is a handful of your neighbors, not an elected body with transparency obligations. Yet the data these cameras collect can end up in the same national networks police departments tap into, meaning your daily comings and goings are tracked by a private contract you never approved and a vendor you can't vote out.
If you live under an HOA, now's the time to ask hard questions before the contract gets signed: who owns the data, how long is it kept, and who can access it. Check our map to see what's already been deployed near you, and use our take-action resources to push back before your street becomes another node in the surveillance grid.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of The Unraveling | Yersocialistdad, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.