Centerton City Council ends city's Flock camera use
The short version: Centerton, Arkansas pulls the plug on Flock ALPRs — proof that local councils can reverse course once residents push back on surveillance creep.
Our Take
Credit to NWAhomepage.com for catching this one: Centerton's city council reportedly voted to end its Flock Safety camera program. We don't have the full transcript of the debate, but the headline alone matters — this is a small Arkansas city choosing to walk back a surveillance system rather than expand it, which is still the exception, not the rule, in our reporting.
Every Flock deployment gets sold the same way: a tool to catch stolen cars and wanted suspects. What rarely gets mentioned upfront is that these cameras log the location of every plate that passes, creating a searchable movement history for everyone, guilty or not, and that data gets shared across a growing web of agencies with little public oversight. When a council actually reverses a contract, it usually means someone on the dais started asking who has access to that data, how long it's kept, and whether the promised crime-fighting results materialized. Those are the right questions, and more towns should be asking them before they sign, not after.
If you want to see whether a Flock camera is already watching your street, check our map, and if you'd rather push your own council toward Centerton's outcome than Flock's usual sales pitch, our take-action page has a starting point.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of NWAhomepage com, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.