Flock told police the cameras were off. They are still up.

Our Take

This is the pattern we keep seeing everywhere DeFlock digs in: a company sells convenience and safety to a council that doesn't fully understand what it's buying, then when public pressure or a lapsed contract forces the question, the promises evaporate. Verified Privacy VPN's footage of a Flock rep who couldn't answer basic questions about the system in his own pitch meeting isn't an anomaly — it's the sales model. Nobody in the room is equipped to push back, and by the time residents catch on, the hardware is already up.

The real story here is the gap between what a corporation tells a public body and what's actually mounted on a pole in your neighborhood. "Cameras are off" and "cameras are coming down" are easy words to say into a microphone. They mean nothing until someone physically checks the intersection — which is exactly what local watchdogs and this channel are doing, and exactly why independent verification matters more than press releases from Flock or from the police departments that trust them.

If your town has an ALPR contract that quietly expired, or cameras nobody remembers approving, don't take anyone's word for it — check our camera map and see what's actually out there, then use our take-action guide to put the same pressure on your own council that forced this admission on camera.