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The short version: A quick-hit YouTube Short from Tim Maddex puts Flock Safety's ALPR network in front of a politics-and-news audience, proof the issue is breaking into the mainstream.
Our Take
Credit to Tim Maddex for packaging the Flock Safety story into a format built for short attention spans. Shorts like this one matter because most Americans still have no idea that a private company has quietly wired thousands of intersections with license plate cameras that feed data to local police and, in many cases, each other across state lines.
We don't have the full script in front of us, and we're not going to pretend we do, but the fact that a general politics and news channel is even touching this topic is a signal: the conversation about automated plate readers is escaping the niche privacy-advocate bubble and reaching people who vote, organize, and show up to city council meetings. That's exactly the kind of exposure this fight needs, because the companies and police departments deploying these systems have largely relied on nobody paying attention.
If this video left you wondering how many of these cameras are already watching your street, check our camera map to see what's been documented near you, and head to our take-action page if you want to push back on the deployment happening in your town.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Tim Maddex, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.