Flock doesn’t belong in Indiana
The short version: Creator Kirsten Root argues Flock ALPRs clash with Indiana's constitutional privacy protections, a state-level angle worth watching nationally.
Our Take
Kirsten Root's video makes a point we hammer on constantly: this fight isn't just federal, it's local and constitutional. Indiana's state constitution has its own privacy language, separate from the Fourth Amendment, and Root is right to ask whether a network of always-on license plate cameras quietly violates that promise before anyone gets a chance to vote on it.
That's the pattern with Flock deployments nationwide — a city council or sheriff signs a contract, cameras go up, and residents find out after the fact that their daily movements are being logged and shared across a nationwide database they never agreed to join. "Public safety" gets used as the whole justification, but it rarely comes with a real conversation about retention limits, audit trails, or who else gets access to that data.
Credit to Root for putting a spotlight on Indiana specifically — state constitutional challenges are an underused tool in pushing back on this stuff. If you want to see whether Flock has already landed in your neighborhood, check our map, and if you're ready to push back locally, our take-action page has where to start.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Kirsten Root, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.