Deflock #flockcameras
The short version: A quick SoCal street-level clip spotlighting a Flock Safety ALPR adds one more data point to the growing public record of where these cameras actually live.
Our Take
Credit to the creator behind From SoCal for doing the unglamorous but essential work of pointing a camera at a camera. Short clips like this one, tagged #flockcameras, might look like throwaway content, but they're part of a larger pattern: regular people noticing these black poles with solar panels bolted to intersections and guardrails, and deciding the public deserves to know they're there.
That's the whole premise behind the DeFlock project. Flock Safety doesn't publish a public list of every reader it's deployed, and most city councils that approve these contracts don't put up signage explaining what's being logged, who has access, or how long your travel history sits in a database. So when a driver in Southern California spots one and shares it, that's one more location confirmed, one more gap filled in the map that residents, journalists, and civil liberties groups actually use.
If you've seen a Flock camera on your own street, don't just scroll past it — check our map to see if it's already logged, and if it's not, add it. Mass surveillance infrastructure thrives on being invisible and unaccountable; crowdsourced documentation is one of the few tools that pushes back on both.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of From SoCal, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.