‘F k Flock’ Is the backlash to surveillance cameras winning
The short version: A CNN segment on a city where vandals wiped out every Flock camera shows frustration with ALPR surveillance is boiling over into direct action.
Our Take
Credit to RickieBobbieNO26 for surfacing CNN's Meena Duerson report on a community that didn't write letters or file public records requests — they just took every Flock camera down. That's not a tactic we endorse, but it's a signal nobody in this industry can ignore: when people feel locked out of the decision to put a license-plate reader on their street, some will decide the rules don't apply to them either.
The masked activist "NoMark" interview is the real story here. Strip away the theatrics and what's left is a familiar grievance — these networks get installed quietly, often by a city council vote nobody noticed or a private HOA contract nobody voted on, then suddenly there's a camera logging every car that passes, feeding a database shared with agencies the city never named. Law enforcement calls it an invaluable tool. Residents call it surveillance they never agreed to. Both things can be true, which is exactly why transparency and public input matter before the poles go up, not after.
If you want to know whether this is already happening on your block, check our camera map before you find out the hard way. And if you'd rather fight this in city council chambers than with a crowbar, our take-action page has the tools to push back the legal way.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of RickieBobbieNO26, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.