Gun Range Flock UPDATE!
The short version: A YouTuber reports the Flock camera watching a public gun range in Ocala National Forest has been taken down, but warns it could return.
Our Take
Credit to the Daytona Beach Lawyer channel for staying on this story. A Flock camera quietly bolted up at a public shooting range inside a national forest is exactly the kind of deployment that deserves scrutiny: no posted notice, no public vote, just a license-plate reader logging every vehicle that rolls in to exercise a constitutional right on federal land. Whether you're there for target practice or just passing through, that's a permanent record of your presence tied to your plate, sitting in a database most people never agreed to.
The camera being down right now doesn't mean the issue is settled. Flock cameras get relocated, replaced, or swapped for a different pole a few hundred yards away all the time. This is less a victory lap and more a reminder of how little oversight exists over where these things go up in the first place — a forest service access road isn't exactly a high-crime corridor, it's just another spot someone decided was worth tracking.
If you want to know what's watching you on your own drives, check our camera map to see what's been documented near you, and if a new reader shows up where this one used to be, here's how to push back and make sure it gets logged too.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Daytona Beach Lawyer, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.