Flock CEO mocks people who show up at city council meetings

Our Take

Credit to the channel Orwell Day for surfacing this clip, because it says the quiet part out loud. A company executive telling worried residents to just "trust that the system works" is rich coming from a man whose company reportedly dispatches a dedicated team to almost 10,000 city council meetings a year. That's not neutral trust in the process — that's a coordinated, well-funded lobbying operation showing up again and again to outlast and outnumber the volunteers, parents, and civil liberties advocates who can only attend once or twice before life gets in the way.

This is the actual power imbalance at the heart of the ALPR fight. Flock isn't just selling cameras to police departments; it's actively managing the political environment in thousands of towns so that skepticism never gets traction. When the people raising questions about warrantless tracking, data retention, and mission creep get mocked as naive rather than engaged as citizens doing their job, that tells you which side is actually worried about scrutiny.

If your town is being pitched Flock cameras, don't count on the sales team's talking points to represent your interests — because they'll be at the podium far more often than you will. Check our camera map to see what's already been installed near you, and visit take action for tools to push back before your council meeting turns into just another stop on Flock's road show.