Lebanon residents concerned over Flock camera privacy

Our Take

Credit to WKRN News 2 for showing what accountability actually looks like: regular people showing up to a city council meeting and asking why their movements are being logged by a private surveillance company. This is how most Flock deployments happen in the first place — quietly approved, rarely debated — so it's notable when a community finally gets a public airing before the cameras are bolted to every intersection instead of after.

The concerns raised in Lebanon are the same ones we hear everywhere: no meaningful oversight of who can query the data, vague retention policies, and a vendor whose business model depends on convincing city councils that mass license plate logging is just routine traffic safety. It isn't. It's a searchable database of everywhere you drive, built without your consent and often without a warrant requirement for who gets to look at it.

If you're in Lebanon or anywhere else wondering whether these cameras are already watching your street, check our map to see what's been documented nearby, and if you want to push back the way these residents did, our take-action guide walks through how to get in front of your own council before the vote, not after.