Glenn Jacobs says the really disturbing aspect about Flock Cameras. #Flock #GlennJacobs #News
The short version: Kacee Allen's clip has Knox County Mayor Glenn Jacobs voicing unease over Flock cameras, echoing a growing bipartisan worry about automated surveillance creeping into everyday life.
Our Take
When a sitting mayor — especially one like Glenn Jacobs, who's built a brand on skepticism toward government overreach — starts publicly flagging concerns about Flock Safety's ALPR network, it's worth paying attention. Credit to Kacee Allen for getting that reaction on camera. We don't know the full context of his remarks, but the fact that local elected officials are even raising the question signals this isn't just an activist talking point anymore — it's bleeding into mainstream political conversation.
That matters because Flock's pitch to city councils and county commissions has always been "it's just cameras reading plates, nothing to worry about." But the real disturbing part, as officials like Jacobs seem to be sensing, isn't any single camera — it's the aggregation. Thousands of these devices feeding a searchable, retroactive map of where you drove, when, and how often, shared across agencies and sometimes private networks with little public oversight. That's a fundamentally different animal than a traffic cam, and it's exactly the kind of infrastructure that normalizes mass surveillance by making it invisible and routine.
If you want to see whether this is already happening in your own backyard, check our camera map for nearby Flock deployments, and if you'd rather not just watch this debate unfold from the sidelines, our take-action page has concrete steps for pushing back at the local level.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Kacee Allen, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.