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Our Take

Creator Tiffany rounds up the August Flock news cycle, and the headline item is that Flock Safety says it's adjusting its privacy and data-retention policies as public scrutiny grows. That scrutiny didn't come out of nowhere — it's the result of months of local reporting, open-records requests, and ordinary residents asking their city councils uncomfortable questions about who can search a nationwide network of license plate scans and why.

Policy announcements from a vendor are worth watching, but they're not the same as enforceable law. Retention windows, audit logs, and "who can query this" rules are only as good as the audits that check whether departments actually follow them. Flock has walked back or clarified policies before under pressure, which tells you the pressure is working — not that the underlying surveillance architecture has shrunk. The cameras are still going up, the data-sharing agreements between agencies still exist, and immigration and out-of-state actors have already shown they can find ways into these networks.

We appreciate creators like Tiffany keeping this on people's radar between the big investigative pieces. If you want to see how close this infrastructure is to your own front door, check our camera map, and if you're ready to push back at the local level, our take-action page has a starting point.