A Recommendation Is Not a Default - What Flock Actually Changed #Shorts
The short version: Flock U's breakdown shows the '30 days to 7' retention cut is just a recommendation, not a default — your city's data stays on the old policy unless local officials act.
Our Take
Credit to Flock U for cutting through the press-release fog here. The framing everyone repeated — '30 days down to 7' — sounds like Flock tightened the leash on itself. It didn't. It's a suggestion, not an update pushed to existing customers. If your department's contract says 30 days, it's still 30 days tomorrow, next month, and next year unless someone local actually changes it. That distinction is the whole ballgame, and it's exactly the kind of detail vendors count on the public glossing over.
The audit tooling and case-code requirements are real guardrails, and worth acknowledging. But guardrails only matter if they're enforced locally, and 'flagged accounts get suspended pending review' means little if no one at your city is reviewing anything. Flock is a private company setting recommended defaults for a surveillance network your tax dollars fund — the actual policy lives in your city's contract, not in a corporate announcement.
So skip the press release and go check what your own council actually approved. Search our map to see if ALPRs are already watching your streets, and use our take-action guide to ask your local officials the only question that matters: did our contract change, or just Flock's messaging?
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Flock U, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.