Flock cameras are monitoring members at the Ocala Public Shooting Range. #Flock #News
The short version: A Florida creator flags Flock cameras logging visitors at the Ocala Public Shooting Range, raising fresh questions about why routine, lawful activity needs a license-plate paper trail.
Our Take
Credit to Kacee Allen for pointing the camera (so to speak) at the cameras. If the footage holds up, it's another example of Flock Safety's ALPR network creeping into spaces that have nothing to do with the violent crime these systems are marketed to solve. A public shooting range is about as lawful and mundane as civic life gets — people exercising a constitutional right under state supervision — yet their plates are apparently being logged, timestamped, and stored anyway.
This is the pattern we keep seeing nationwide: a local government or private vendor sets up a license-plate reader near a park, a church, a clinic, or a range, and nobody asked the people driving through whether they wanted a permanent record of their visit. Once that data exists, it doesn't stay local. It gets pooled into regional and national Flock networks, shared with agencies with no oversight from the community whose cars got scanned. "Nothing to hide" doesn't mean "nothing to track."
If you want to see whether Flock gear is watching your own routine stops, check our camera map, and if you're ready to push back on unchecked ALPR deployment in your town, our take-action page has concrete steps to raise it with local officials.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Kacee Allen, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.