Residents raise concerns over Flock cameras at City Hall tonight. What do you think about the ALPR?
The short version: Another city council meeting, another round of residents pushing back on Flock ALPRs — and officials owe them real answers, not reassurances.
Our Take
Credit to XIDIG TV for getting cameras inside the room where it actually matters: a city hall meeting where residents show up and ask the questions elected officials would rather skip past. This is how Flock Safety's network keeps expanding — one quiet council vote at a time, until someone in the audience finally asks who's watching the watchers. The fact that people are organizing enough to raise it publicly is the story here, even more than whatever answer the dais gives them.
What usually gets lost in these meetings is the scale of what's actually being installed. A single Flock camera isn't a speed trap or a doorbell cam — it's a node in a nationwide system that logs every plate, every car, every direction of travel, and shares that data across thousands of agencies with little independent oversight. Residents asking 'why here' and 'who sees this' are asking the right questions; the burden should be on the city to justify the answer, not on citizens to extract it.
If your town hasn't had this conversation yet, don't wait for a council meeting to force it. Check our camera map to see what's already been deployed near you, and use our take-action resources to show up prepared the next time this lands on an agenda.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of XIDIG TV, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.