ACLU gives Flock camera privacy presentation in Lansing

Our Take

Credit to WLNS 6 News for covering something that too often flies under the radar: a local ACLU chapter standing up in Lansing to walk residents through exactly what Flock's ALPR network can see, store, and share about them. When a civil liberties group has to hold a public presentation just to explain what's bolted to the streetlight down the block, that tells you how little transparency these deployments usually get before city councils sign the checks.

This is the pattern we track constantly: a city adopts Flock quietly, citing vague promises about solving crime, and only after cameras are already up does anyone ask who audits the searches, how long the data sits in the system, or whether it gets shared with agencies outside Michigan entirely. The ACLU raising these questions in a public forum is exactly the kind of pressure that forces city officials to answer for a system that was never put to a real public vote.

Lansing residents wondering if they're already being logged should check our camera map for what's nearby, and anyone ready to push back on a local deployment can find concrete steps at take action.