We Handed Them A Full Ban, GTFOH
The short version: Loudon County, TN residents packed a commission meeting again, won a narrow jurisdictional fix on ALPRs, and are now pushing for a full countywide surveillance ban.
Our Take
Credit where it's due: GTFOH Loudon County is doing the unglamorous, essential work of showing up meeting after meeting and making local government actually answer for the cameras it's bought. Round two got a real result — a resolution asking Loudon, Lenoir City, and THP to pull any ALPRs sitting outside their own jurisdiction. That's a procedural win, not a surveillance rollback, but it matters because it establishes that these agencies don't get to blanket a county in cameras just because a vendor made it easy.
The bigger story is what happens next. Organizers didn't stop at the jurisdictional fix — they handed commissioners a resolution for a full countywide ban covering Flock, Axon, ShotSpotter, Clearview AI, and the rest of the surveillance-industrial catalog. That's the right framing. Piecemeal fights over one vendor or one camera location let the broader dragnet keep expanding under a different brand name. A county that bans Flock but welcomes its competitors hasn't actually protected anyone's movements from being logged and sold.
Whether this goes to workshop and then a vote, or quietly dies on an agenda somewhere, depends entirely on whether residents keep showing up. If you want to see what's already watching your own community, check our camera map, and if you're ready to push back locally, our take-action resources can help you do what Loudon County is doing right now.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of GTFOH Loudon County, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.