Flock cameras operate in at least 3 dozen Kentucky law enforcement agencies. #Flock #Kentucky #News
The short version: Kacee Allen's report that at least three dozen Kentucky law enforcement agencies now run Flock cameras shows how fast this network spreads with almost no public debate.
Our Take
Credit to Kacee Allen for digging into just how widespread Flock Safety's camera network has become in Kentucky. Three dozen agencies is not a pilot program anymore — it's a regional surveillance grid, built one quiet city council vote and one quiet sheriff's contract at a time. Most residents in those jurisdictions have no idea their daily movements are being logged, stored, and shared far beyond the department that installed the camera on their street.
That's the pattern we see nationwide: departments sign on individually, but the data doesn't stay local. Flock's system is built for cross-agency sharing, which means a camera bought with one county's budget can end up feeding searches run by agencies hundreds of miles away, including federal ones, with little oversight and even less public notice. Multiply that by three dozen agencies in one state and you get a surveillance net that no single elected body actually approved or controls.
Kentucky residents who want to know what's watching them can start with our camera map to see what's already deployed nearby, and head to our take-action page for ways to push back at the local level before the network grows even further.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Kacee Allen, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.