You live in a small town? Doesn’t matter, you’re flocked #flock #surveillance #deflock #flocksafety
The short version: The Minutemen Report flags that Flock ALPR cameras have spread even to small Montana towns, proving rural America isn't exempt from mass surveillance.
Our Take
The Minutemen Report's short hit on a truth we keep harping on: Flock Safety's sales pitch was never just for big cities. Small-town police departments and sheriff's offices, often with tiny budgets and even tinier oversight capacity, are prime targets for a company that needs thousands of cameras blanketing the country to make its network effect work. A town of a few thousand people doesn't need a dragnet of plate readers logging every car that passes through, but it gets one anyway because a vendor made it sound like modern policing 101.
That's the real story here — surveillance infrastructure doesn't respect the size of your town or the idea that 'nothing happens here.' A camera in rural Montana feeds the same national database as one in Atlanta, and the data gets shared, queried, and stored with just as little transparency. Small communities often have the least local reporting and the fewest people asking city council why a contract got signed, which makes them easier, not harder, targets.
Credit to The Minutemen Report for putting a spotlight on this instead of assuming only metro areas are flocked. If you want to see whether your own small town has already been wired up, check our camera map, and if it has, our take-action resources walk you through pushing back at the next council meeting.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of The Minutemen Report, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.