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Flock Safety surveillance is popping up on shows that cover everything from blue screens to AirDrop, and that's actually a good sign — it means ALPR tracking is finally breaking out of niche privacy circles and into mainstream tech chatter. Credit to Tall Boy and Revis on The Lab Tech Show for giving the topic airtime in their weekly roundup, even if it's sandwiched between Roku features and phone-to-phone file sharing.

We haven't seen the full segment, so we won't put words in their mouths about why certain departments are or aren't using these cameras. But that's exactly the kind of local detail that matters: funding fights, contract disputes, and public pushback all shape whether a city ends up networked into Flock's system or not. Those decisions are happening in city council meetings right now, often with little public scrutiny.

If you want to know whether your own neighborhood has been wired up, check our camera map, and if you'd rather your city not be the next case study in a tech roundup, see what you can do on our take action page.