'Flock Camera' Controversy Explained: It's Somehow CREEPIER Than You Even Realized...
The short version: BlazeTV's Stu Burguiere and Dave Landau dig into Flock Safety's creep factor, proving ALPR unease now spans the entire political spectrum.
Our Take
When a BlazeTV panel starts sounding like the privacy advocates they'd normally razz, you know Flock Safety has a messaging problem. Stu Burguiere and Dave Landau aren't civil liberties lawyers or EFF staffers — they're conservative media personalities — and yet here they are, working through the same unease that's been building among librarians, public defenders, and small-town city council members for the past two years. That's the real story: this isn't a left-right issue anymore. It's a "do you want a private company logging every car that drives past your house" issue, and apparently the answer is no matter who's asking.
Credit to BlazeTV for giving this the airtime. Most national coverage of license plate readers still treats them as a boring municipal budget line item, not a nationwide network capable of reconstructing anyone's daily movements from thousands of local feeds stitched together. The fact that two guys riffing on a talk show can land on "this is creepier than you realized" without reading a single ACLU report tells you the discomfort is intuitive, not ideological. People don't need a policy brief to feel surveilled — they just need to learn how many cameras are actually out there.
That's exactly where we come in. If this video has you wondering whether Flock or a similar ALPR system is already watching your street, check our camera map to see what's been documented near you, and if you find something, use our take-action page to push back at the local level, where these contracts actually get decided.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of BlazeTV, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.