FLOCK CEO Should Be Hung “Publicly For Treason!” says County Commissioner

Our Take

Let's be clear up front: calling for anyone to be "publicly hanged for treason" is not commentary, it's a threat, and it does nothing to advance a serious conversation about surveillance policy. Full Armour Media Group deserves credit for putting the clip out there, because it captures something real even if the rhetoric is indefensible — a sitting county commissioner, in public session, saying what a lot of quieter officials are apparently thinking about Flock Safety's expansion into their communities.

Strip away the inflammatory language and the underlying complaint is the one we hear constantly: local governments signed contracts for a "public safety tool" and woke up to a privately run, nationwide license-plate tracking network that logs where ordinary people drive, with little public debate and even less independent oversight. That a commissioner feels this strongly about a company most residents have never heard of tells you the trust deficit around Flock is bigger than any single city council meeting.

Anger is not a strategy. If you want to actually push back on ALPR sprawl in your county, start by finding out whether it's already deployed near you on our camera map, then use our take-action resources to raise it the right way — at a council meeting, in writing, on the record — before the next contract renews itself quietly.