Flock cams track millions of Americans. A Flock worker called 911 when our investigators filmed back

Our Take

Credit to 19 News for doing the obvious thing nobody at Flock Safety wanted done: pointing a camera back. Their investigation found that when reporters showed up to film a facility tied to a company that's built an empire on filming you, a Flock worker called the cops. The irony is almost too on-the-nose, but it's also revealing. A company whose entire business model depends on blanket, unconsented surveillance of millions of American drivers gets visibly uncomfortable the moment the lens turns around.

That asymmetry is the whole story with ALPR surveillance. Flock's network quietly logs where you drive, when, and how often, and shares that data across a growing web of police departments and private subscribers, with little transparency and almost no meaningful consent from the public being tracked. Yet when a news crew tries to document the company's own operations from public space, the reaction is a 911 call, not a conversation. If you want to understand why local communities are fighting back against this rollout, that reaction is a pretty good data point.

This is exactly why independent tracking matters. Check our camera map to see what's been documented near you, and if you want to push back on secretive deployments in your own town, our take-action page has concrete steps.