Andrew Bowser Makes Public Comment to Onslow County Commissioners | 09/09/26
The short version: A Jacksonville, NC resident confronts Onslow County Commissioners over Flock ALPR cameras, and DeFlockILM caught it on tape.
Our Take
Public comment periods are one of the last places ordinary people can put local officials on record about surveillance creep, and that's exactly what happened in Onslow County. Credit to DeFlockILM for showing up with a camera and letting Andrew Bowser's remarks speak for themselves instead of filtering them through a press release from the county or from Flock Safety's PR shop.
These meetings matter more than they get credit for. County commissioners are usually the ones who sign off on the contracts, the data-sharing agreements, and the budget lines that let a network of automated license plate readers blanket a jurisdiction with little public debate beforehand. When a resident stands up and asks hard questions about who can access that data, how long it's retained, and whether anyone bothered to ask the public before installing the cameras, it forces elected officials to answer in front of their neighbors instead of behind closed doors.
If you live in or near Onslow County, don't just watch and move on — check our camera map to see what's already been documented near you, and use our take-action resources to figure out how to raise the same questions at your next commissioners' meeting.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of DeFlockILM, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.