Flock Safety Exposed
The short version: NewsAnarchist's breakdown of EFF's findings on Flock Safety abuses underscores why ALPR networks deserve scrutiny, not blind trust from local governments.
Our Take
Credit to NewsAnarchist for putting the EFF's findings in front of a wider audience. When a civil liberties organization with EFF's track record flags "significant surveillance abuses," that's not a partisan talking point — it's a signal that the guardrails police departments promised when they signed up for Flock cameras aren't holding up in practice.
This is the pattern we keep seeing nationwide: a vendor sells a city council on "solving car theft," the cameras go up with minimal public debate, and only later do residents learn how the data gets queried, shared across jurisdictions, or accessed without a warrant. Abuse isn't a hypothetical edge case — it's baked into a system with thousands of unaccountable scanning points and little independent auditing. Formal complaints like the one this video covers are exactly how that opacity starts to crack open.
If you want to see how dense this network already is in your own neighborhood, check our camera map, and if you're ready to push back at a city council meeting or public records request, our take-action page has a starting point.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of NewsAnarchist, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.