He Built a FAKE Surveillance Camera to BLOCK the City's FLOCK System...
The short version: TheNashvilleAuditor TNA covers Murfreesboro residents from Flock Block Middle TN staging a street protest — complete with a homemade decoy camera — to spotlight Flock Safety's ALPR network.
Our Take
Credit to TheNashvilleAuditor TNA for getting boots on the ground in Murfreesboro and letting Flock Block Middle TN speak for themselves. A DIY fake camera as a prop is a clever bit of street theater, but the real story here is the organizing: neighbors showing up, talking to drivers, and forcing a conversation about a surveillance network that most residents never voted on and often don't even know exists.
That's the pattern we keep seeing nationwide — city councils quietly signing Flock contracts, then locals discovering after the fact that every trip to the grocery store is being logged, timestamped, and stored in a database accessible to police departments and sometimes federal agencies. Tennessee is no exception, and Murfreesboro joins a growing list of towns where citizens are pushing back on ALPR sprawl without waiting for permission from city hall.
Whether or not a plywood decoy camera changes any minds, the awareness-raising matters. If you want to see how many real Flock cameras are already watching your own streets, check our camera map, and if you're ready to organize like the folks in this video, 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 TheNashvilleAuditor TNA, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.