Get the flock outta here - Thoughts on Civil Discourse
The short version: A local Easton, MD group films a plainspoken street-level case for banning Flock ALPRs, aiming criticism at surveillance policy rather than neighbors on the council.
Our Take
This is exactly the kind of grassroots pushback we like to highlight: a resident named Norm standing right next to the hardware and making the case in plain terms, no jargon, no political theater. Get the Flock Outta Here - Easton is doing what too few local campaigns do, separating the technology from the personalities. They're not out to demonize the town council; they're out to demonstrate that a camera bolted to a pole near a Lowe's parking lot is quietly building a searchable record of everyone who drives past it, guilty of nothing more than running errands.
That distinction matters. Flock's pitch to small towns always leans on public safety and cooperation, but the actual product is a permanent, networked log of vehicle movements that police, and anyone with access to the system, can query after the fact. Easton is a small town, not a crime syndicate hotspot, and that's precisely the point critics keep making nationwide: once the infrastructure exists, the local justification for it stops mattering. The dragnet doesn't care whether you're a councilmember, a cop, or a kid heading to soccer practice.
Credit to the DeFlock Easton crew for keeping their first video focused, civil, and specific to their own streets. If you want to see whether cameras like the one Norm is standing next to are logging traffic near you, check our camera map, and if you're ready to push back locally, our take-action page has the tools to get started.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of GetTheFlockOuttaHere - DeFlock Easton, MD, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.