How Flock Safety Got into Fullerton (uncut)
The short version: The Hourly Struggle's uncut footage of Fullerton's council meeting shows the familiar script cities use to wave through Flock Safety's ALPR network.
Our Take
The Hourly Struggle did us a favor by just letting the camera run. There's no narration needed when you watch a city council work through the same talking points that have gotten Flock Safety into hundreds of towns before Fullerton: public safety framing, a pitch about solving car theft, and little public discussion of what it means to have every plate that passes through town logged, timestamped, and stored in a database most residents will never see.
What these uncut meetings reveal, over and over, is how thin the public record actually is before a city signs a contract. Residents show up to ask about retention periods, audit logs, and who else gets access to the data — questions that often get answered with vague reassurances rather than policy language. Fullerton isn't unique here; it's one more data point in a national pattern of councils approving ALPR networks with minimal scrutiny of the surveillance infrastructure they're building.
If you're in Fullerton or anywhere near it, check our camera map to see what's already been deployed nearby, and head to our take-action page if you want to push back before the next council vote locks in another permanent watcher on your street.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of The Hourly Struggle, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.