UNSETTLING NEWS about FLOCK and A.I... Senator Hawley!

Our Take

When a Senate Judiciary subcommittee chaired by Josh Hawley starts asking pointed questions about Flock Safety and AI, that's a signal worth paying attention to, even if the specifics are still thin. Credit to KentuckyTee | News Today for flagging this hearing and putting it on the radar — congressional attention is exactly the kind of friction this industry has avoided for years while it quietly wired thousands of towns into a nationwide vehicle-tracking network.

We've said it before: the danger isn't just one camera on one street. It's the aggregation. Flock's pitch to police departments has always been about convenience and crime-solving, but the backend is a searchable, retroactive map of where your car has been, built without warrants and often without local debate. When federal lawmakers start probing the AI layer on top of that — the pattern recognition, the data sharing, the vendor opacity — it validates what local activists and privacy advocates have been shouting into the void.

Hearings don't fix anything by themselves. What moves the needle is residents knowing these cameras exist in their own towns and showing up to city council meetings before contracts get renewed. Check our camera map to see what's already deployed near you, and if you want to push back locally, our take-action page has the tools to do it.