How These Small Cameras Are Watching Your Every Move
The short version: Ashley Brasfield's video spotlights how innocuous-looking Flock cameras are quietly building a nationwide vehicle tracking network with little public oversight.
Our Take
Ashley Brasfield's video does something valuable: it makes ordinary people stop and look at those small black camera poles they've been walking and driving past without a second thought. That's exactly the problem we've been flagging for a while now — Flock Safety's ALPR network has spread into thousands of communities precisely because it's designed to blend into the background. Innocuous design is a feature, not an accident.
What the video gets right is framing this as a question of scale and consent. A single camera reading plates at an intersection is one thing. A connected web of them logging every vehicle's movements, timestamped and searchable, shared across police departments and sometimes private entities, is something else entirely. Most residents never voted on this infrastructure, never saw a budget line for it, and have no real way to opt out of being tracked on public roads.
We'd add one thing the video only touches on: you can actually see this network for yourself. Check our camera map to find out how many Flock units are already logging traffic near you, and visit our take-action page if you want to push back at a city council meeting or file a records request. Awareness is step one, but it shouldn't be the last step.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Ashley Brasfield, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.