They're Putting Flock Cameras on Golf Courses Now

Our Take

Valuetainment's video taps into a reaction a lot of us are having lately: genuine disbelief at where these cameras keep turning up. Golf courses and shooting ranges aren't exactly high-crime corridors — they're private recreational spaces where people reasonably expect to not be logged, timestamped, and run through a plate-reader database just for showing up to play a round or practice at the range. If the reporting is accurate, it's another data point in a pattern we track constantly: ALPR deployment isn't staying confined to highway chokepoints or high-crime intersections like it was originally pitched. It spreads to wherever a property manager, HOA, or local club can be sold on a subscription.

That's the real story here, and it's bigger than any single golf course. Flock's business model depends on normalizing cameras in more and more corners of everyday life until the idea of a plate-reader at your country club or your range stops sounding strange at all. Once that happens, there's no principled line left — your car's movements get vacuumed into a nationwide, searchable history regardless of whether you're a suspect in anything. Credit to Valuetainment for putting a spotlight on how absurd this creep looks when people encounter it in a space they considered personal and low-stakes.

We'd encourage anyone who watched that video and felt the same gut reaction to go check our camera map and see what's already logged near the places you frequent — golf course or not. If you find something undisclosed or want to push back on a new installation in your community, our take-action page has concrete steps for raising it at a council meeting or with the property owner directly.