This Is How You Fight Flock Surveillance Cameras At City Council #Cameras #Surveillance #Privacy #Co
The short version: A resident's satirical 'Shepherd Safety' pitch flips Flock's own surveillance logic back on city officials, exposing the double standard at the heart of ALPR rollouts.
Our Take
Jeremy Hambly's clip captures something local activists have been circling for a while: the fastest way to make a city council understand ALPR surveillance is to point the cameras at them. By proposing "Shepherd Safety" — a mirror-image network that would track officials and their families the same way Flock tracks residents — the speaker isn't asking for a real product to exist. He's forcing the room to sit with the discomfort that they've been fine outsourcing to everyone else.
That discomfort is the point. Flock's pitch to city councils is always framed as neutral infrastructure: cameras that just read plates, just help solve crimes, just sit on a pole minding their own business. But the data doesn't stay neutral once it's pooled into a nationwide network that police, ICE, and private companies can query with little oversight. A council member who bristles at the idea of their own commute being logged is telling on themselves — they understand exactly what they voted to impose on constituents.
If you want to see whether this kind of network is already sitting on your street, check our camera map, and if your city is about to vote on a Flock contract, our take-action page has the talking points and public-records tools to make your own council meeting just as uncomfortable.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Jeremy Hambly, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.