Video: Auburn City Councilor Terry Cuddy on proposed Flock resolution
The short version: An Auburn city councilor is pushing back on Flock surveillance, proving local elected officials can be the fastest lever for pulling cameras down.
Our Take
Credit to The Citizen Newspaper for getting Auburn City Councilor Terry Cuddy on record about his resolution to end the city's Flock contract. This is exactly the kind of local accountability journalism that mass surveillance companies hope never happens — a city council actually reconsidering a decision made with little public debate, and a reporter asking why.
Flock Safety's pitch to city councils is always the same: crime is scary, cameras are cheap, and nobody will notice the data trail. What often gets skipped is the harder conversation — who audits the searches, how long plate data sits in a database, and whether any of it actually reduces crime versus just logging the movements of every driver in town. One councilor willing to ask 'should we even have this' is worth more than a dozen press releases about hits and alerts.
Resolutions like this don't pass themselves. If you're in Auburn or anywhere else with Flock cameras watching your streets, check our camera map to see what's already in place near you, and use our take-action resources to push your own council toward the same kind of scrutiny Cuddy is bringing to his.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of The Citizen Newspaper, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.