Customer Video | Citrus Heights Police Department

Our Take

This isn't an independent report — it's a sales reel. Flock produced this video, Flock picked the talking points, and Flock benefits every time another department buys into the pitch that more cameras equals more safety. Citrus Heights PD gets airtime as a satisfied customer, but what we don't hear is anything about retention limits, audit logs, who can query the system, or how often it's run through state databases, ICE data-sharing requests, or out-of-state warrants. That's not an oversight — it's the whole business model. Selling convenience and omitting accountability is how blanket surveillance networks get normalized one 'Real Time Intelligence Center' at a time.

Pairing Falcon LPR cameras with the newer Condor units and funneling everything into FlockOS means Citrus Heights is building exactly the kind of always-on tracking grid we've flagged in city after city: a system that logs every plate, every direction, every time, regardless of whether anyone's suspected of anything. Calling it 'intelligence' doesn't change what it is — a permanent, searchable record of where residents drive, parked outside their doctor's office, their church, their protest of choice.

If you live in or around Citrus Heights, check our camera map to see what's already watching your commute, and use our take-action resources to push your city council for real transparency — public audit trails, data-sharing disclosures, and a hard retention cap — before marketing videos like this one become the only record of how this system actually gets used.