Get the Flock cameras out of here!

Our Take

When a personal injury attorney starts talking about surveillance overreach, it's worth paying attention — Diaco Law spends their days untangling how power gets abused, and they're seeing the same red flags we've been flagging for years. The pitch for Flock Safety's ALPR network has always been stolen cars and closing cases, but the video points to a growing pile of 2024 incidents where cops used the system to track exes and people they had personal beef with. That's not a bug. That's what happens when you build a nationwide movement-tracking database and hand out logins with essentially no independent auditing.

The core problem isn't whether any individual officer is a bad apple. It's that a system built on 120,000+ cameras and growing creates a permanent, searchable record of where everyone drives, and that kind of power will always attract misuse — stalking, harassment, favors for friends, no warrant required. Departments keep promising oversight, but 'trust us' isn't a policy, it's a hope, and the video's examples show exactly how that hope keeps failing.

If you're wondering whether this is happening in your own backyard, check our camera map to see what's already watching your streets, and head to our take-action page for ways to push back at the local level before your city writes Flock another check.