Flock cameras are everywhere!!!
The short version: A small-town Alabama resident's video shows Flock ALPRs spreading well beyond big cities, proving this surveillance net now covers rural America too.
Our Take
Credit to Micah Toole for pointing a camera at the cameras. It's one thing to read a stat about Flock Safety's nationwide expansion; it's another to watch someone drive through small-town Alabama and spot the familiar black boxes on poles that have become as common as speed limit signs. This is exactly the pattern we track: ALPR rollout isn't confined to major metros with big budgets and big crime stats to justify it. It's in the small towns where a city council vote, barely covered by local press, quietly wires a community into a nationwide plate-tracking network.
That's the part that should concern residents most. A handful of people on a council or a sheriff's department can sign a contract that gives Flock (and by extension, any agency that taps into its shared network) a rolling log of where your car has been, day after day, without a warrant and often without meaningful public debate beforehand. 'Tyrannical' is a strong word, but the mechanism Toole is filming — infrastructure installed with little resident input, justified after the fact — is worth taking seriously regardless of your politics.
If you want to see how saturated your own area is, check our camera map, and if you're ready to push back at a city council meeting or public comment period, our take-action page has tools to help you make the case.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Micah Toole, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.