FLOCK CAMERA POST WILL SPEAR YOU!!
The short version: Roadside safety advocate Steve Eimers warns that Flock camera poles are being installed without breakaway safety standards, turning 'safety' infrastructure into a literal roadside hazard.
Our Take
Steve Eimers has spent years fighting for roadside hardware that doesn't kill people in a crash — guardrails, sign posts, and poles engineered to break away or yield on impact. In this video he turns that expertise on Flock Safety's camera installations, and the findings are hard to shake: rigid, non-breakaway poles planted close to the road, right where a driver who runs off the shoulder is most likely to hit them. A system sold as a public safety tool may be creating the exact kind of fixed-object hazard that highway engineers have spent fifty years trying to eliminate.
This is what happens when surveillance infrastructure gets rushed into the ground with no public hearing, no engineering review, and no accountability to the communities living next to it. Flock's business model depends on fast, cheap deployment — a camera, a solar panel, a pole, done. Nobody is asking whether that pole meets the same breakaway standards required of every other roadside structure, because nobody with authority is required to ask. The irony writes itself: a device justified in the name of safety, installed in a way that ignores the safety rules everyone else has to follow.
It's one more reason these cameras deserve scrutiny that goes beyond privacy — physical placement, liability, and who's accountable when someone gets hurt. Check our camera map to see what's been installed near you, and if your city council hasn't asked these questions, our take-action page can help you start.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Steve Eimers Roadside Safety Advocate, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.