What to do about flock? Here's my idea #deflock
The short version: Trista Digenova floats a grassroots response to Flock ALPR sprawl, and we're glad to see more everyday people treating this as a solvable problem, not an inevitability.
Our Take
Credit where it's due: Trista Digenova (TRISTA4PREZ! on YouTube, also writing on Substack) is doing exactly what this moment calls for — regular people looking at a camera bolted to a pole in their town and asking "okay, but what do we actually do about this?" That question gets asked a lot less often than it should, considering how quietly Flock Safety has wired thousands of communities into a searchable, retroactive vehicle-tracking network.
We don't have her full pitch in front of us, so we won't pretend to summarize the specifics. But the instinct behind the video matters more than any single tactic: ALPR expansion isn't some force of nature. City councils approve these contracts, police departments renew them, and budgets get voted on in public meetings most residents never attend. That's the pressure point. Videos like this one are useful precisely because they push viewers from passive outrage toward something they can actually do on a Tuesday night at a council meeting.
If you want to see how saturated your own area already is before you show up to make noise, check our camera map — it's the fastest way to turn "I think there are cameras near me" into a documented list of addresses to bring to your representatives. And if you're ready to go further than watching a video, our take-action page has the concrete next steps.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of TRISTA4PREZ!🎉 substack tristadigenova, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.