Huge Wins Against The Flock Cameras…
The short version: Mutahar's SomeOrdinaryGamers video spotlights cities dropping Flock contracts, proof that organized pushback against ALPR surveillance actually works.
Our Take
When a channel with millions of subscribers starts covering the DeFlock fight, that's a sign this issue has broken out of the privacy-nerd bubble and into the mainstream. Mutahar's rundown of cities pulling the plug on Flock Safety contracts matters because it shows this isn't just theoretical outrage — public records requests, city council meetings, and local reporting are translating into actual terminated contracts. That's the whole game: bureaucracies rarely reverse course unless enough residents make noise loud enough to be politically costly.
We'd add one caveat to the "huge wins" framing: for every city that cancels, several more are quietly signing up, often with little public debate. Flock's PR machine leans hard on crime-solving anecdotes while dodging harder questions about retention windows, data sharing with ICE and other agencies, and audit trail gaps. A handful of terminated contracts is a start, not a trend line we can bank on yet.
If you want to see whether your own city or county is already wired up, check our camera map before assuming you're in the clear. And if you're ready to push back locally the way these other communities did, our take-action guide walks through the records requests and council strategies that actually move the needle. Credit to Mutahar for putting this in front of a much bigger audience than we usually reach.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of SomeOrdinaryGamers, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.