Flock Safety: Is Your Data Their Profit? #shorts
The short version: A DeKalb resident's blunt city council warning about Flock Safety captures the core question every community should ask: who profits when your plate data gets scanned?
Our Take
Credit to Shaw Local for capturing this moment of raw public pushback. Public comment periods like this one in DeKalb are exactly where ALPR policy should be scrutinized — not buried in a vendor's sales pitch to city staff. When a resident stands up and says, in plain terms, that a private company's business model runs on harvesting data from everyone who drives past its cameras, that's not paranoia. That's just reading the contract.
Flock Safety's pitch to cities is always about solving crime, but the accountability gaps this commenter raises — who audits access, how long data sits in the system, whether it gets shared beyond the department that installed the camera — rarely get answered before councils vote yes. That's the pattern we track: quiet approvals, vague retention policies, and a for-profit surveillance network quietly expanding block by block, city council meeting by city council meeting.
If DeKalb has cameras, or you're not sure whether your own town does, check our map to see what's already been deployed near you, and use our take-action guide if you want to show up to your own council meeting with better questions than the vendor's slideshow answers.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Shaw Local, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.