🇺🇸 Trump Weighs In on Flock Cameras

Our Take

Credit to Mighty News for flagging this: when a sitting president starts talking about Flock Safety cameras, it means the backlash against mass ALPR surveillance has moved from city council meetings into national politics. We don't know yet what a "review" actually means in practice, and we're not going to pretend the video gives us more than a soundbite. But the fact that this is even a topic at the White House level tells you how far this fight has traveled in a few short years.

That's the real story here, not the specific quote. Flock's network has expanded into thousands of communities with almost no federal oversight, built on local contracts and marketing promises rather than public debate. Any national attention — even a passing comment — opens the door to bigger questions: who audits these systems, who can access the data, and why police departments are outsourcing plate-by-plate tracking of ordinary drivers to a private company with almost no transparency.

Don't wait on Washington to sort this out. Check our map to see if Flock cameras are already logging plates in your neighborhood, and head to take action if you want to push back locally — that's still where most of these fights get won or lost.