Who Watched The Daycare
The short version: A ReelMyPodcast investigation reportedly found Flock employees accessed a community center's camera footage over a thousand times, raising serious questions about internal oversight.
Our Take
ReelMyPodcast's new video digs into something that should worry anyone who's been told ALPR and camera networks are 'just for law enforcement.' According to the reporting, footage from a private community center — the kind of place where kids attend daycare — was reportedly viewed by Flock employees more than a thousand times. That's not a hacking incident or a rogue cop. That's the vendor's own staff, by the company's own systems, logging in again and again.
This matters because the entire pitch for these networks rests on trust: trust that access is tightly controlled, logged, and limited to narrow investigative purposes. A number like 'over a thousand views' into footage from a space full of small children blows a hole in that pitch. Who approved that access? What was the business justification? Were parents or the center ever told their security footage was being treated as a resource for Flock's own employees to browse? Those are the questions a credulous local news segment won't ask, but a camera host absolutely should before signing a contract.
If this story has a lesson for the rest of us, it's that 'we only use it for crime-fighting' is a sales line, not an audit. Check our camera map to see what's watching your own neighborhood, and head to take action if you want to push your local council or school to ask these vendors the hard questions before they ever get access to a lens.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of ReelMyPodcast, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.