Flock You, Scottsville! 😠📸
The short version: Jerry's World documents a Flock camera bolted to the Scottsville police department after officials reportedly said they wouldn't deploy one, exposing a familiar bait-and-switch.
Our Take
Credit to Jerry's World for doing what local reporters often won't: pointing a camera back at the cameras. If the account here holds up — that Scottsville officials said no to Flock and then quietly mounted one on the police department itself, aimed at Route traffic — that's not a misunderstanding, it's a pattern. We've seen it in town after town: a noncommittal answer at a public meeting gets treated by residents as a firm 'no,' and then the hardware shows up anyway once attention moves on.
This matters because ALPR rollouts almost never happen through a real public debate. They happen through vendor demos, quiet council votes, and installs timed for when nobody's watching. Putting the camera on the police building itself, facing a public road, means every plate passing by — commuters, churchgoers, delivery drivers, people visiting a lawyer or a clinic — gets logged and run through Flock's network, often shared well beyond city limits. Nobody voted for that dragnet; it just got bolted up.
If you're in Scottsville or anywhere else wondering whether a pole near you is doing the same thing, check our camera map to see what's already been documented nearby, and use our take-action guide to push your council for answers before the next 'maybe' quietly becomes a 'yes.'
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Jerrys World my Journey on YouTube, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.