I have a question about Flock Cameras. Polite comments welcome.

Our Take

Greg Cromer's America from the Sky comes at this from an unusual angle — literally, given the channel's aerial photography roots — and asks the kind of plain questions a lot of regular people have but rarely get answered: what are these cameras actually doing, who's watching, and why did one show up in their town without much explanation. We appreciate that the video leads with curiosity rather than outrage, and explicitly invites polite dialogue. That's exactly the tone this issue needs more of, because Flock's rapid spread has mostly happened without public debate, not because people don't care, but because most never noticed the cameras going up in the first place.

That's the real story here: a private company has quietly built one of the largest vehicle-tracking networks in the country by selling to local police departments one city council vote at a time, often with little public comment and even less independent oversight. When someone with a drone and a curious eye starts asking basic accountability questions, it's a reminder that you don't need to be a privacy expert to notice something's off about a camera logging every car that passes, cross-referenced against a database you'll never see.

If this video has you wondering whether there's a Flock camera near you, check our camera map to see what's been documented in your area, and visit our take-action page for concrete steps — from public records requests to city council scripts — to push back on surveillance creeping into your community without a real conversation first.