WSAZ Investigates | Huntington Police Chief discusses Flock concerns
The short version: WSAZ NewsChannel 3 presses Huntington's police chief on Flock camera concerns, underscoring how little the public still knows about local ALPR use.
Our Take
When a local TV station has to sit down a police chief just to get basic answers about Flock Safety cameras, that tells you something about how these systems get deployed in the first place: quietly, with minimal public input, and with transparency arriving only after residents start asking questions. Credit to WSAZ NewsChannel 3 for pushing Huntington's chief on this instead of letting a press release do the talking.
We don't know exactly what concerns were raised in this segment, but the pattern across the country is familiar — vague answers about data retention, unclear rules on who can access plate reads, and little independent oversight of how often these cameras are actually solving crimes versus just logging everyone's movements. Every city that adopts Flock owes its residents a real accounting of those details, not just a chief's reassurance that it's working fine.
If you're in West Virginia or anywhere else wondering whether your own town has quietly wired itself up with ALPRs, check our camera map to see what's nearby, and head to our take-action page if you want to push your local council for the same kind of scrutiny Huntington just got on the air.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of WSAZ NewsChannel 3, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.