Grove City accepts Flock Safety cameras, 11/20/2023
The short version: Anon Amuss's clip shows Grove City rubber-stamping Flock Safety ALPRs with barely a passing glance at the privacy tradeoffs, a pattern we see in council chambers nationwide.
Our Take
Credit to Anon Amuss for capturing what so many of these votes look like in real life: not a heated debate about mass surveillance, but a quick nod and a checked box. That's the real story here — not that Grove City said yes, but how little deliberation it took to say it. Flock's pitch is smooth, the vendor demos are polished, and by the time it reaches a public meeting the outcome is often already baked in.
This is exactly how a nationwide ALPR network gets built without a nationwide conversation. Each city council treats its own vote as a local, low-stakes procurement decision, while the cumulative effect is a coast-to-coast system capable of tracking anyone's daily movements. Fifteen minutes of "thought" at a dais in Grove City becomes one more node feeding a database that other agencies can query far beyond city limits.
If you want to know whether your own neighborhood already has these cameras — or is about to — check our map, and if a similar vote is coming to your town, our take-action page has tools to push for actual public debate before the rubber stamp comes down.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Anon Amuss, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.