Addressing Flock camera concerns in Chatham County
The short version: WJCL's local report signals Chatham County residents are pushing back on Flock Safety ALPRs, and officials are being forced to respond publicly.
Our Take
Credit to WJCL News for even airing this story — local TV rarely gives airtime to pushback against Flock Safety, and the fact that Chatham County officials felt compelled to respond to "camera concerns" tells you residents are asking the right questions. When a county has to hold a press moment just to address ALPR worries, that's a sign the rollout happened with more marketing than public input.
We don't have the full transcript here, and we're not going to pretend we do. What we do know from pattern after pattern across the country: these systems get installed quietly, data-sharing agreements get signed without council debate, and "it's just for stolen cars" turns into a statewide dragnet logging everyone's movements regardless of suspicion. If Chatham County residents are raising alarms, they're not being paranoid — they're doing the oversight job that should've happened before the cameras went up.
If you're in Georgia and want to know whether Flock or similar ALPR hardware is already watching your street, check our camera map. And if Chatham County's answers didn't satisfy you, our take-action page has concrete steps for pushing your local government toward transparency and real limits on this data.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of WJCL News, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.