Trump Greenlights Flock’s Plate-Tracking Grid — They’re Logging Every Car

Our Take

When a YouGov poll shows more Americans oppose Flock's camera network than support it, and a president who rarely meets a surveillance tool he doesn't like is suddenly its biggest cheerleader, you know something's shifted. Garland Nixon and Kit Cabello's conversation on The Jimmy Dore Show does what too few mainstream outlets bother to do: it connects the dots between "law enforcement tool" marketing and the lived reality of a grid that's been weaponized by the very officers entrusted to run it.

The numbers they cite aren't abstract. Dozens of police officials accused or convicted of using Flock access to track exes, stalk women, or settle personal scores isn't a bug in the system — it's the system working exactly as designed, because the design never included meaningful oversight. And the case of a woman jailed for weeks while exculpatory Flock footage sat unused is a gut-punch reminder that these cameras don't just fail to protect the innocent — they can actively bury them.

What the segment gets right is the bigger picture: Flock doesn't exist in isolation. It's one node in a sprawling mesh with Ring, Axon, and ICE data-sharing agreements, all stitched together with AI and sitting on infrastructure that's already been shown to be hackable. That's the real story — not a single company's product, but the normalization of a tracking grid nobody voted for, installed quietly at schools and playgrounds. If you want to see how close this network has crept to your own neighborhood, check our camera map, and if you're ready to push back, our take-action page has the tools to start.