We Fought Flock Cameras and Won. Now There Is A BIGGER Problem!
The short version: Car Coach Reports documents a win against Flock cameras in one town, but shows the surveillance model just adapts and resurfaces elsewhere with new errors.
Our Take
Car Coach Reports lays out something we've been saying for a while: beating Flock in one city council meeting doesn't mean the fight is over. The channel points to a case where police allegedly tracked an automotive journalist driving a press vehicle for days, then boxed him and his wife in with multiple cruisers. If that's accurate, it's a textbook example of what happens when a database built to catch stolen cars gets used to run pattern-of-life surveillance on someone who did nothing wrong.
This is the part people miss when they focus only on whether a city votes to keep or cut a Flock contract. The cameras, the data-sharing agreements, and the search tools don't disappear just because one town says no — they show up in the next county over, or under a different vendor name, or bundled into a "public safety" grant nobody read closely. A win is real, but it's local and temporary unless people keep watching what replaces it.
We'll keep tracking these mistakes because they're not isolated glitches — they're the predictable result of giving police departments 30-day movement histories on every driver, with almost no independent oversight of who queries the system and why. Check our camera map to see what's already watching your area, and if your town is debating a Flock contract, our take-action page has what you need to show up prepared.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Car Coach Reports, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.