WATCH LIVE: Flock Cameras in CT | Wake Up Wednesday | Rare Bronx Otter | NBC Connecticut
The short version: NBC Connecticut folds a Flock Safety camera segment into a chatty morning show alongside a rare otter story, treating mass license-plate surveillance as light local color.
Our Take
Credit to NBC Connecticut for at least putting Flock Safety cameras on viewers' radar, but the format here says a lot about how this technology keeps spreading with minimal scrutiny. Sandwiching a segment on networked ALPR cameras between a weather check-in and a feel-good otter story is exactly how surveillance infrastructure normalizes itself — as just another local news tidbit, not a system that logs every car's movements and feeds that data into a nationwide law enforcement network.
Connecticut residents watching this deserve more than a quick live hit. Who approved these cameras in their town? What's the retention policy? Which agencies get query access, and is there an audit trail when someone looks up a plate? Local news segments rarely have time to dig into those questions, which is exactly why community members need to ask them directly at town council meetings and public records requests.
If you're in Connecticut or anywhere else, check our camera map to see what's already been installed near you, and head to our take-action page for tools to push back before Flock's footprint grows any further.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of NBC Connecticut, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.