Flock Safety CAUGHT Teaching Police to Track Protesters Live
The short version: A leaked Flock Safety webinar reportedly shows the company coaching police on using ALPRs to track protesters in real time, raising fresh First Amendment alarms.
Our Take
Our Community Media says it obtained leaked footage of a Flock Safety webinar in which company reps walk police departments through using license plate readers — including live camera feeds — to follow vehicles in real time. If accurate, this is exactly the scenario privacy advocates have warned about for years: a surveillance network marketed as a tool against car theft quietly repurposed into infrastructure for monitoring people exercising their right to protest.
The danger here isn't hypothetical. Once a network of plate readers exists, nothing in the hardware stops it from being pointed at a crowd of demonstrators instead of a stolen Honda. What matters is policy, oversight, and whether the company itself is encouraging departments to blur that line. A leaked training session showing Flock staff normalizing live tracking for police is a direct window into how the sales pitch meets the squad room — and it's worth watching closely, with credit to Our Community Media for surfacing it.
If you want to know whether this kind of tracking infrastructure already sits on your street, check our camera map, and if you'd rather not wait for the next leak to find out how your local department is using these systems, see what you can do about it.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Our Community Media, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.