Flock cameras in the area spark debate over privacy, public safety
The short version: CoastTV's report on Georgetown-area Flock cameras shows the same old script: police tout 'safety,' residents get surveillance they never approved.
Our Take
CoastTV's local segment lands on a story we've seen play out in town after town: a police department rolls out Flock Safety's ALPR cameras, officials talk up solved cases, and residents start asking who signed off on a network that logs every car that passes by. Credit to the CoastTV team for actually putting that tension on camera instead of just running the department's press release — that framing matters.
What usually gets lost in these segments is scale. One camera isn't the issue; it's the web of them feeding a searchable, often multi-agency database that can reconstruct where you drove, when, and how often — all without a warrant. Georgetown is just the latest entry on a map that's grown block by block, county by county, almost always with minimal public input before the poles go up.
If you want to see whether this is already happening near you, check our camera map, and if it is, don't wait for a local news segment to ask the questions — here's how to push back at your next city council meeting.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of CoastTV, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.