100,000 Flock Safety Cameras Installed in America since January 2024. #Flock #Surveillance #News
The short version: A YouTuber's count of 100,000 new Flock Safety cameras since January 2024 is a blunt reminder of how fast this surveillance network is scaling nationwide.
Our Take
Creator Kacee Allen's tally is the kind of number that should stop you mid-scroll: 100,000 new Flock Safety cameras installed in roughly a year and a half. We can't independently verify that exact figure, but it lines up with everything we've been tracking — this isn't a niche pilot program anymore, it's a rapidly metastasizing national network, bankrolled by city councils and HOAs who often have no idea how the data gets shared once it leaves their jurisdiction.
What makes Flock different from the traffic cameras your town already had is the backend: plate reads get logged, timestamped, and pooled into a searchable database that other agencies — sometimes out-of-state, sometimes federal — can query without a warrant in many cases. Scale that to 100,000 new nodes and you're not looking at isolated intersections anymore, you're looking at a de facto tracking grid for anyone who drives a car in America.
Credit to Allen for putting a number on the sprawl, because most people have no idea how many of these cameras are near their own house. Check our camera map to see what's been documented in your area, and if you want to push back on a new installation or demand transparency from your local government, our take-action page has concrete steps to start with.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Kacee Allen, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.