Are your privacy rights being violated?

Our Take

Trip Law, P.A. isn't a privacy outlet — it's a law firm looking for clients — but the point they're raising is one we've been hammering on for months: Flock Safety's network was pitched to city councils as a way to catch stolen cars and hit-and-run drivers, and it's quietly become a pipeline federal agencies tap into. Once a plate scan sits in a shared database, "local tool" is a polite fiction. ICE and CBP don't need a warrant when a police department, or a data-sharing agreement, hands them the search.

The immigrant communities this video is aimed at are the canary in the coal mine, not the exception. If your plate can be flagged, logged, and routed to a federal agency without your knowledge or a judge's sign-off, that same infrastructure works on protesters, journalists, abortion-seekers, or anyone else a future administration decides to prioritize. The technology doesn't discriminate — the policy choices about who gets access do, and right now those choices are being made behind closed doors in city council chambers and inter-agency MOUs most residents never see.

Credit to Trip Law for putting this in front of a wider audience, even with an obvious client-acquisition angle. If you want to know whether there's a Flock camera on your street feeding this system, check our map, and if your city hasn't had a public debate about who gets to query that data, that's exactly the fight our action resources can help you start.