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Our Take

Credit where it's due: Localite's Tyler is doing what more local media should be doing — treating Flock Safety's spread into Alamance County as news worth ranting about on a podcast instead of a press release to rubber-stamp. We don't have the transcript in front of us, so we won't pretend to know every point he makes, but the broad strokes of local frustration with ALPR creep are familiar to anyone tracking this story nationwide.

That's the real story here: this isn't a Burlington problem or a North Carolina problem, it's the same playbook running in county after county. A sheriff's office or city council quietly signs a Flock contract, cameras go up on main roads and subdivision entrances, and most residents only find out when a local podcaster or a nosy neighbor starts asking why there's a black box on a pole logging every car that passes. Little to no public debate, vendor-controlled data-sharing agreements, and a network that can track your movements whether or not you've ever been suspected of anything.

If Alamance County is getting its own Flock rollout, residents deserve to know where the cameras are and who has access to the footage before it becomes normalized infrastructure nobody remembers voting on. Check our map to see what's already documented near Burlington, and if you want to push back on a local deployment, our take-action page has the tools to start.