flock camera on drones

Our Take

Tyron Smith's video puts a spotlight on something we've been watching closely: Flock Safety isn't content with bolting cameras to poles at intersections. The company has been expanding into aerial platforms, and even a short clip raising that possibility is worth taking seriously, because drones solve the one problem fixed ALPRs have — they're stuck in one place.

A flying camera means coverage that can follow a car down a street, hover over a neighborhood, or get deployed on demand without the zoning fights and public comment periods that fixed camera installs sometimes attract. That's a meaningful shift in how this surveillance gets normalized: less visible infrastructure, less paper trail, more discretion for whoever's piloting the thing. We don't have hard details to confirm scope or rollout here, but the direction fits a pattern we've documented for years — more cameras, more places, less oversight.

Thanks to Tyron Smith for flagging it. If you want to see how dense this network already is on the ground, check our camera map, and if you'd rather not wait for a drone update to get involved, our take-action page has steps you can use right now.