Dish Network Flock installer says he knows people don't like him installing Flock cameras.
The short version: A Dish Network contractor caught on camera by Orwell Day admits he knows homeowners resent him installing Flock ALPR cameras — a small moment that says a lot about how this surveillance network actually gets built.
Our Take
Credit to Orwell Day for catching something that rarely makes it on camera: the human moment where a hired installer admits, out loud, that he knows people don't want these things going up. Flock's pitch to cities and HOAs is always slick and sanitized — 'community safety,' 'force multiplier,' etc. But the actual rollout happens block by block, pole by pole, with a subcontracted worker who's just doing a job and clearly aware the job is unpopular.
That disconnect matters. It shows how much of this surveillance expansion runs on quiet compliance rather than public buy-in. Nobody votes on where the next ALPR goes up in their neighborhood; a crew just shows up, bolts it to a pole, and moves on to the next contract. The installer isn't the villain here — he's a symptom of a system designed to make expansion feel inevitable and frictionless, with no real community input baked in.
If you want to see how far this network already reaches near you, check our camera map, and if you're ready to push back on installations in your own town, our take-action page has concrete steps to raise it with your local council before the next pole goes up.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Orwell Day, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.