Flock Safety Community Meeting
The short version: Cheyenne PD's own recap of its Flock Safety town hall is a polished pitch for ALPRs that glosses over the surveillance tradeoffs residents deserve to weigh.
Our Take
Credit to the Cheyenne Police Department for putting a community meeting on camera at all — most departments roll out Flock Safety cameras with a press release and a council vote, not a public Q&A. But when the entity selling you the surveillance system is also the one framing the debate, don't expect much airtime for the downsides: who can query the data, how long plate scans are stored, whether they're shared with other agencies or federal databases, and what happens when the system flags an innocent driver.
Cheyenne is far from alone. City after city gets the same reassuring script about 'solving crime faster' while skipping the part where a network of cameras logging every vehicle's movements becomes a permanent, searchable record of where you go, when, and how often — regardless of whether you've ever been suspected of anything. That's the real story these community meetings tend to underplay.
If you're in Cheyenne or anywhere else wondering whether these cameras have already gone up near you, check our camera map, and if you want to push back on how your city deploys this tech, our take-action guide has concrete steps.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Cheyenne Police Department, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.