When Surveillance Gets Personal. A Conversation on Surveillance, Privacy & Accountability.
The short version: Mokah and poet Mikhayla Robinson turn Flock Safety surveillance from an abstract policy debate into a personal story, and that reframing matters.
Our Take
Most ALPR coverage lives in the land of policy briefs and city council minutes. Mokah's conversation with poet Mikhayla Robinson does something different: it puts a face and a voice on what it feels like to realize you've been "flocked" — tracked, logged, and filed away without ever being told. That personal register is exactly what this fight needs. Numbers and network maps convince policy wonks; stories like this one convince neighbors.
We don't know everything said in the conversation, and we're not going to pretend we do, but the premise alone is worth sitting with. Flock Safety cameras aren't hypothetical civil-liberties thought experiments — they're bolted to poles on real streets, building real databases of where real people drive, worship, and visit. When a poet and a host sit down to talk about what that surveillance does to a person's sense of privacy and agency, they're doing the work of translating a technical system into lived experience, which is often the only thing that actually moves public opinion.
If this conversation makes you wonder whether your own block has been flocked, don't just wonder — check our camera map and see what's already watching you. And if you want to do more than worry, our take-action page has concrete steps for pushing back at the local level, where these fights are actually won or lost.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Mokah: Speaker • Author • Host, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.