The Dark Side of Flock Safety: Why People Are Fighting Back
The short version: SecurityEvolution surveys the growing backlash against Flock Safety's ALPR network, including reports of cameras being tampered with around Halloween, and asks why people are pushing back.
Our Take
Credit to SecurityEvolution for pulling together a picture of just how frayed public patience with Flock Safety has gotten. When a private license plate reader company's cameras start getting vandalized or covered as a seasonal tradition, that's not a fringe reaction — it's a signal that a lot of ordinary people feel like they never consented to being tracked block by block, and they're done waiting for city councils to do something about it.
We don't know the full scope of what's happening out there this Halloween, and we're not going to pretend we do. But the underlying frustration the video captures tracks with what we hear constantly: these cameras get installed with little public input, vendor contracts get renewed on autopilot, and the data gets shared far beyond the original 'it's just for catching car thieves' pitch. People are noticing, and some are responding with their own hands because the normal channels — public comment, FOIA requests, council votes — keep getting ignored or steamrolled.
If you want to see whether your neighborhood has one of these cameras instead of guessing, check our map. And if what you're seeing on it makes your blood boil, don't stop at frustration — there are concrete ways to push back at the local level, and we've laid them out on our take-action page.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of SecurityEvolution, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.