DeFlock event. Protest songs
The short version: Betty Shenk's footage of a DeFlock gathering set to protest songs shows grassroots pushback on ALPR surveillance can be creative, communal, and worth documenting.
Our Take
Credit to Betty Shenk for turning out to a DeFlock event and capturing it in song rather than just signage. Protest music has always been a way to make surveillance fights feel human instead of abstract policy debate, and that matters when the subject is a network of cameras most neighbors don't even know is watching their street.
We don't have transcripts or statistics to pull from this one, and we won't pretend otherwise. What we can say is that videos like this are part of how local resistance to Flock Safety and ALPR expansion actually spreads: not through a press release, but through someone showing up with a camera and a guitar and putting it online.
If this clip makes you want to know whether there's a reader near you, check our camera map, and if you're ready to do more than watch, our take-action page has concrete next steps for pushing back in your own town.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Betty Shenk, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.