How Community and Technology are Shaping a Safer Future in Dunwoody, Georgia

Our Take

This one isn't journalism — it's a Flock Safety marketing reel, produced by the company that sells the cameras, starring a police department that bought them. That matters. When a vendor scripts the story about its own product's success, you get a highlight reel of case closures and partnership platitudes, not a real accounting of how many plates get scanned, how long the data sits, who else gets to query it, or what happens when the system gets something wrong.

Notice the chapter titled "Building Oversight Into Public Safety Technology." In a Flock-produced video, that segment is almost certainly about optics, not independent audits, public reporting requirements, or community control over whether the cameras exist at all. Real oversight means elected officials and residents setting hard limits before deployment, not a company video reassuring you that oversight is baked in. Dunwoody drivers should ask their own city council for the actual numbers — hit rates, retention policy, data-sharing agreements — rather than take a sales pitch's word for it.

If you want to see whether Dunwoody or your own town is wired up with this kind of license plate surveillance, check our camera map, and if you'd rather your city not be the next case study in a vendor's promo reel, our take-action page has the tools to push back.