How to Stop Flock Cameras in Your Neighborhood
The short version: Red Wine and Blue lays out a simple three-step playbook—map it, records-request it, organize—for neighbors who want Flock cameras gone.
Our Take
It's encouraging to see a group like Red Wine and Blue distill the fight against ALPR sprawl into something any suburban parent or retiree can actually do this week. Their formula tracks exactly what we've argued from day one: transparency plus local pressure beats waiting for Congress to notice. Public records requests aren't glamorous, but contracts and invoices are where the real story lives — how much your city is paying Flock, who signed off, and whether anyone bothered to ask residents first.
What the video gets right is that this isn't a partisan issue. Camera creep hits suburban moms, civil libertarians, immigrants, and small-government conservatives alike, because a database that tracks every car's movement doesn't check your voter registration before it logs your plate. Organizing at the city council level works precisely because that's where the purchase orders get approved and where a handful of persistent residents can actually change a vote.
If you want to skip straight to step one, check our camera map to see what's already watching your streets, then head to our take-action page for templates and next steps. Credit to Red Wine and Blue for turning outrage into a checklist — that's how these systems actually get rolled back.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Red Wine and Blue, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.