Dent County Commissioner is SET STRAIGHT by The People after bizarre Flock comment! #deflock #Flock
The short version: A Dent County, MO commissioner's offhand defense of Flock cameras got swift pushback from residents, and BotWatch caught the exchange on tape.
Our Take
Credit to BotWatch for sitting through another county commission meeting so the rest of us don't have to. These local government sessions are where ALPR contracts actually get decided, and they're also where elected officials reveal how little homework they've done before signing off on a surveillance vendor. When a presiding commissioner casually name-drops conversations he's had about Flock without laying out real policy details, that's a red flag, not reassurance.
What this clip captures is the pattern we see over and over: officials treat Flock Safety's pitch as settled fact, then get surprised when residents show up with actual questions about data retention, audit logs, who can query the system, and whether any of it has reduced crime. The people in that room did what every community should do — they pushed back in public, on the record, instead of letting a rubber stamp meeting pass quietly.
Dent County is a small place, but the stakes are the same everywhere ALPRs go up: a permanent record of where your car has been, shared across networks most residents never voted on. If you want to see whether cameras like these are already watching your route to work, check our camera map, and if you want to push back at your own next commission meeting, our take-action page has the tools to help you do it right.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of BotWatch, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.