They're at every council meeting. Are you?

Our Take

Credit to Verified Privacy VPN for naming the quiet mechanism behind Flock Safety's expansion: it's not just clever marketing or a slick pitch deck, it's showing up. A company with a multibillion-dollar valuation can afford to send trained reps to every council meeting on the calendar. Most towns can't afford, or don't bother to organize, a single skeptical resident to sit in the same room. Councils notice who's in the seats, and when the only voice in the room is the vendor's, the vote outcome is basically decided before public comment even opens.

This is the unglamorous, unsexy reality of how mass surveillance gets normalized in America: not through some dramatic federal mandate, but meeting by meeting, county by county, while nobody's watching. Flock's reps know the agenda, know the councilmembers, and know exactly which talking points defuse concerns about data sharing, retention, and audits. Residents walking in cold don't stand a chance against that kind of preparation, and that asymmetry is the whole game.

If you want to change the arithmetic in your own town, start by checking whether Flock cameras are already logging your plates on our camera map, then use our take-action resources to actually be one of the people in the room next time a contract renewal shows up on a council agenda.