How Gov. Katie Hobbs, Congressman Andy Biggs disagree on Flock cameras
The short version: ABC15 Arizona shows Gov. Hobbs and Rep. Biggs split on whether state government should rein in Flock ALPR networks, underscoring the regulatory vacuum citizens must fill themselves.
Our Take
When a Democratic governor and a Republican congressman can't agree on whether the state should have any say over Flock Safety's camera network, you know the regulatory landscape for ALPRs is basically the Wild West. ABC15 Arizona deserves credit for putting Gov. Katie Hobbs and Rep. Andy Biggs side by side and letting their disagreement speak for itself, rather than flattening this into a simple left-right story. It isn't one. Surveillance skeptics come from every corner of the political map, and so do the people cheerleading for more cameras.
What jumps out is that neither official is describing a system with real guardrails already in place. Whether you think Arizona needs more state oversight or less, the underlying reality is the same: these cameras are already reading plates, building location histories, and feeding data into systems that most residents never voted on and can't see. Disagreement among lawmakers about *who* should regulate Flock is a tacit admission that *someone* needs to, and right now that job is falling to local city councils, county boards, and ordinary residents showing up to meetings asking hard questions.
That's exactly the gap DeFlock exists to help close. Check our camera map to see what's already been deployed near you in Arizona and beyond, and if you want to push back on a camera going up in your own city, our take-action page has concrete steps for getting in front of your local government before the vote, not after.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of ABC15 Arizona, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.