Deflock

Our Take

Creator Emory Lisborg dropped a video simply titled "Deflock," and while the description is sparse, the fact that more creators are picking up this topic at all tells you something: the quiet spread of automated license plate readers across American towns isn't staying quiet anymore. Every new voice asking "wait, who authorized this camera on my street?" chips away at the assumption that mass surveillance infrastructure should just get installed without a public vote or even a press release.

We don't have the transcript in front of us, so we won't pretend to summarize claims we haven't verified. But the broader pattern Lisborg is tapping into is real and documented: Flock Safety cameras now blanket thousands of neighborhoods, feeding license plate data into networks that police departments, HOAs, and sometimes private actors can query, often with little oversight, weak audit trails, and retention policies that vary wildly by jurisdiction. That's the actual story worth repeating in every format, video included.

If this video got you curious about what's actually watching your block, don't stop at curiosity. Check our camera map to see documented ALPR locations near you, and head to take-action for concrete steps, public records requests, city council scripts, and more, to push back on surveillance creep in your own community.