NCSBI wants more Flock cameras
The short version: WAVY TV 10 reports that North Carolina's state investigative agency wants to expand Flock camera coverage, and that ambition deserves public pushback, not a rubber stamp.
Our Take
Credit to WAVY TV 10 for flagging this one early: when a state-level investigative agency like the NCSBI starts pushing for more ALPR coverage, it's rarely framed as a surveillance expansion in the local reporting — it's framed as a tool request. But every new camera the state bureau wants is another node in a statewide tracking network that logs where ordinary people drive, when, and how often, regardless of whether they're ever suspected of anything.
The pattern is familiar. A state-level agency builds a pitch around a handful of solved cases, local departments sign on to get "free" hardware or data access, and before long the footprint has grown well past what any single city council ever debated or approved. That's the quiet danger of statewide ALPR pushes — they route around the normal local oversight process, because the ask isn't coming from your town, it's coming from Raleigh.
If you live in North Carolina, now's the time to ask your local council or sheriff what data-sharing agreements already exist with the NCSBI and who else can query that data. Check our camera map to see what's already deployed near you, and visit our take-action page for tools to push back before the network grows any further.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of WAVY TV 10, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.