Getting The Flock Out:4 Cities, 4 Tactics, 1 Goal: Get The Flock Out!
The short version: Verified Privacy VPN's roundup of four cities pushing back on Flock Safety shows local pressure can work — but only when residents organize and demand transparency.
Our Take
Verified Privacy VPN's rundown of four different cities taking on Flock Safety is a useful reminder that there's no single playbook for getting these cameras out of your town. Some communities lean on public records requests, others on city council votes, some on straight-up community organizing. What they share is a refusal to let 'public safety' be the end of the conversation instead of the start of one.
We don't know the granular details of each city's fight from a single video, but the throughline matters: ALPR networks don't get installed through some inevitable force of nature. They get installed because nobody in the room pushed back, or because a police department signed a contract before residents even knew cameras were going up. The cities highlighted here prove that pushback is possible at the local level, even against a vendor with Flock's lobbying muscle and law-enforcement relationships.
If you want to know whether Flock or another ALPR vendor already has cameras running in your neighborhood, check our map before you assume it's not your problem yet. And if you're ready to do something about it, our take-action resources walk through the same kind of tactics — records requests, council meetings, coalition-building — that these four cities used to start pushing back.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Verified Privacy VPN (vp.net), published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.