Woman files class-action lawsuit against Flock Group Inc.
The short version: A woman's class-action suit against Flock Group argues its ALPR network amounts to unlawful mass surveillance, not just traffic enforcement.
Our Take
THV11's report on a class-action lawsuit against Flock Group Inc. is worth watching closely. One plaintiff is arguing in court what we've been saying for a while: a nationwide network of always-on cameras logging every passing car isn't a narrow public-safety tool, it's a surveillance dragnet that was never put to a public vote. Lawsuits like this matter because they force the legal system to actually grapple with questions that city councils rarely ask before signing Flock contracts — who owns this data, how long is it kept, and who gets to search it without a warrant.
Credit to THV11 for covering a story that a lot of local news outlets still treat as a routine crime-fighting segment. The reality is that these cameras don't just catch the car a detective is looking for — they build a searchable history of everyone's movements, and that data has already leaked into uses far beyond the original sales pitch, from immigration enforcement to personal vendettas by people with database access. A class action is one of the few mechanisms ordinary people have to push back once a system like this is already blanketing their town.
If you want to know whether this is happening near you, check our camera map to see documented Flock locations in your area, and if you'd rather not wait for a lawsuit to do the work, visit our take-action page for ways to push back at the local level.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of THV11, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.