Deflock Paulding: We must stand up against the surveillance state
The short version: A Georgia state senate candidate puts Flock surveillance front and center, urging Paulding County residents to push back against unchecked ALPR expansion.
Our Take
When a candidate for state office makes deflocking a campaign issue, it's a sign this fight has moved well beyond a niche privacy concern. Alec Miller, running for Georgia State Senate District 31, uses this video to call out the creeping normalization of license plate readers in Paulding County and frame it as part of a broader surveillance state problem. We don't do political endorsements here, but we do welcome any elected official or candidate willing to say the quiet part loud: these camera networks are expanding faster than the oversight meant to contain them.
What makes local pushback like this matter is that ALPR deployment decisions are almost always made at the county or city level, often with little public debate before contracts are signed. A candidate naming specific communities and calling for residents to "stand up" is exactly the kind of grassroots pressure that can force a council meeting, a public records request, or a contract review that otherwise never happens. Surveillance infrastructure rarely gets rolled back once it's in — the fight is won or lost at the installation stage.
If you're in Paulding County or anywhere else wondering how many of these cameras already watch your commute, check our map to see what's been documented near you, and visit our take-action page for concrete steps to push back before the next contract renewal locks in another year of tracking.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Alec Miller for Georgia State Senate 31, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.