Flock Safety CONTACTED Me After My Coverage of Them
The short version: A creator says Flock Safety reached out after his critical coverage, raising fresh questions about how the surveillance company responds to scrutiny.
Our Take
Credit to American Volunteer Corps for putting this on the record. When a company that runs a nationwide network of license plate cameras starts personally reaching out to people who criticize it, that's worth paying attention to, regardless of how the contact is characterized. Companies have every right to respond to coverage, but the optics of a surveillance vendor quietly contacting someone connected to a critical journalist deserve scrutiny, not a shrug.
This is the broader pattern we keep seeing: Flock Safety operates with minimal public oversight, city councils often approve contracts with little debate, and when pushback happens, the company's PR instincts kick in faster than any policy reform does. The real story isn't one awkward phone call, it's the thousands of cameras logging plates in neighborhoods with no warrant, no independent audit, and no meaningful opt-out for residents.
If you want to know whether this is happening where you live, check our camera map and see what's already watching your commute. And if your town is considering a Flock contract or already has one, our take-action page has steps for pushing back at the local level, where these decisions are actually made.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of American Volunteer Corps, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.