No-BS Take — Adam Heimerman shot Flock cameras and got felony charges

Our Take

In Vodka Veritas lays out a story that's becoming a recurring headline in the Flock era: someone fed up with being tracked takes matters into their own hands, and the legal system responds with the full weight of a felony charge. We appreciate the channel pulling this up from r/technology and giving it air — these cases rarely get national coverage, but they're happening in small towns across the country where residents never got a vote on whether a camera would log their plate every time they left the driveway.

We're not in the business of cheering on property destruction, and shooting a camera doesn't make the network disappear — it just gets replaced, usually with an upgrade and a bigger budget line. But incidents like this are a symptom, not the disease. People are frustrated because there's often no public hearing, no opt-out, and no real accountability for how long this data sits in a database or who gets to query it. When vandalism becomes the only outlet people feel they have, that's a failure of democratic process, not just a crime story.

If you want a legal, effective way to push back, start by finding out what's actually watching your block on our camera map, then take it to your city council instead of a toolbox. We've got resources on how to organize against ALPR expansion before your town becomes the next case study.