Both Sides Of Street Flock License Plate Reader Camera #flockcamera #flockcameras #flock #trafficcam
The short version: A quick clip of a freshly installed dual-direction Flock camera shows how easily one pole can log every car passing both ways on an ordinary street.
Our Take
Credit to Joey Barrelwilde for catching this one on camera — literally. The video is short, just a couple of Flock Safety ALPR units freshly bolted onto a pole, aimed to catch traffic coming and going. No fanfare, no public notice, just two more eyes added to a street that used to only have the ones drivers brought with them.
That's the part worth sitting with. One installation, two directions, means every single vehicle that rolls through gets logged — plate, timestamp, direction of travel — whether or not anyone did anything wrong. Multiply that by the thousands of Flock nodes going up in neighborhoods across the country and you get a rolling record of where everyday people go, built without warrants, court oversight, or in most cases even a public vote.
Clips like this matter because they make the abstract concrete: this isn't a hypothetical surveillance state, it's a pole on your corner. Check our camera map to see what's already watching your own streets, and if you want to push back, our take-action page has the tools to start.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Joey Barrelwilde, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.