Why Fighting Flock Is Now A Crime.

Our Take

Credit where it's due: Loyal Moses is tapping into something we've said for a while now — you don't need to cut a wire or storm a city council meeting to make life difficult for Flock Safety and the agencies that deploy it. Public records requests are boring, bureaucratic, and devastatingly effective. Every contract, invoice, and data-sharing agreement is a thread, and pulling on enough of them unravels the vague 'trust us, it's for public safety' narrative that police departments lean on.

The video's framing — that fighting Flock is somehow being treated as criminal — cuts to the real tension here. When a private company's cameras are scanning your plate on every commute and cops won't say who they're sharing that data with, asking for the paperwork shouldn't be radical. But that's exactly the point: transparency requests expose just how little oversight exists, and that makes people in power uncomfortable. The chilling effect isn't accidental.

If you want to run this playbook yourself, start by checking our map to see if Flock or another ALPR vendor has already set up shop near you, then head to our take-action page for records request templates and next steps. The fight against mass surveillance isn't won in one viral video — it's won by hundreds of ordinary people filing the same annoying request until the whole system has nowhere left to hide.