Flock cameras in Missouri City, Texas
The short version: The Baker Report spotlights growing public pushback against Flock ALPR cameras in Missouri City, part of a wider Houston-area reckoning with automated surveillance.
Our Take
The Baker Report's look at Missouri City adds another data point to a pattern we keep seeing across Texas: local governments quietly greenlighting Flock Safety camera networks, then facing a wave of public pushback once residents realize what's actually being logged every time they drive to the grocery store. Credit to the channel for giving airtime to that scrutiny instead of just repeating Flock's sales pitch about "reducing crime," a claim that rarely gets the independent data check it deserves.
What makes Missouri City worth watching is the same thing that makes every Flock deployment worth watching — these aren't passive cameras, they're part of a searchable, shareable database of where you've been, built without a warrant and often without most residents even knowing a vote happened. The Houston area has become one of the densest ALPR corridors in the country, and once that infrastructure is normalized in one suburb, it tends to spread to the next.
If you want to see how your own neighborhood stacks up, check our camera map to find nearby Flock installations, and if Missouri City's situation sounds familiar, our take-action page has concrete steps for pushing back at the city-council level before these systems become permanent fixtures.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of The Baker Report, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.