Flock cameras are being targeted in Transylvania County.
The short version: A North Carolina sheriff says six Flock cameras in Transylvania County have been cut down and spray-painted, a sign of growing public pushback against ALPR surveillance.
Our Take
Credit to Madison Adams for flagging this one: according to local reporting, the Transylvania County sheriff says six Flock Safety cameras have been torn down and spray-painted. We don't know who's behind it or why, and we're not endorsing vandalism — but we're not surprised people are angry. These cameras get bolted onto public roads with little community input, feeding plate scans into a database that law enforcement agencies across the country can query, often with minimal oversight and zero consent from the people being tracked.
When official channels for pushback — public comment periods, open records requests, city council votes — get ignored or steamrolled, some residents start looking for more direct ways to say no. That's not something we encourage, but it is something worth paying attention to as a signal. Communities are telling their local governments that blanket license-plate surveillance isn't something they quietly accept just because a vendor calls it a public safety tool.
If you want to know whether Flock or similar ALPR cameras are already watching your own neighborhood, check our camera map, and if you'd rather push back the legal way — through your city council, sheriff's office, or state legislature — our take-action page has the tools to help you do it.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Madison Adams, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.