Flock Cameras facing major backlash across the country. https://deflock.org
The short version: Protect Scottsdale spotlights growing nationwide pushback against Flock Safety ALPR networks, a sign local resistance is finally catching up to rapid camera sprawl.
Our Take
Credit to Protect Scottsdale for putting a spotlight on something we've been tracking for a while: the backlash to Flock Safety's camera networks isn't isolated anymore, it's showing up in city council meetings, local news segments, and neighborhood Facebook groups all over the country. When a single channel can stitch together examples of resistance from multiple towns, that tells you the pattern is real, not a fluke.
This matters because Flock's pitch to city councils is almost always the same: a few cameras, limited use, just for serious crimes. But once the hardware is up, the data-sharing agreements expand, the retention windows stretch, and suddenly a device sold as a narrow tool is logging the movements of every driver in town and feeding that into a national database other agencies can query. Backlash happens when residents realize the system they approved on paper looks nothing like the one actually running in their community.
If you want to see whether this is already happening where you live, check our camera map for documented Flock locations near you, and if you're ready to push back at your own council meeting, our take-action resources walk through what's worked in other cities.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Protect Scottsdale, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.