Flock CEO calls DeFlock terrorist org
The short version: YouTuber Azfar Rizvi flags Flock's CEO branding DeFlock a 'terrorist org,' a sign the company would rather smear critics than answer for cameras installed without permits.
Our Take
Credit to Azfar Rizvi for surfacing this clip, because it tells you everything about how Flock Safety handles pushback. When a surveillance company's chief executive reaches for a word like 'terrorist' to describe a volunteer-run mapping project, that's not a legal argument — it's a deflection tactic. Calling your critics extremists is a lot easier than explaining why cameras keep showing up on utility poles and county roads with no permit on file and no public vote ever taken.
That's the real story buried under the inflammatory soundbite: a billion-dollar ALPR company insisting it 'follows the law' while local officials and residents routinely find out about new cameras only after they're already recording plates. DeFlock exists because that transparency gap is real, not because anyone here is interested in violence or terror. Mapping public infrastructure and asking basic questions about consent and oversight is accountability journalism, not a threat.
If anything, this kind of rhetoric from the top should make people more curious about what's happening in their own backyard. Check the map to see if Flock or other ALPR systems are already logging your plate, and head to take action if you want to push your city council for real permitting and oversight before the next camera goes up.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Azfar Rizvi, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.