Tommy G Confronts Flock Employee Over Surveillance Hypocrisy!

Our Take

We haven't independently verified every claim in this clip, but the premise from Tommy G Highlights cuts right to the heart of the ALPR debate: the companies building networks that track where you drive, when, and how often are themselves notoriously cagey about their own operations. If the video shows an employee squirming when asked basic questions about data retention, access, or oversight, that's not a gotcha — that's the normal state of affairs for an industry that has scaled faster than any public conversation about consent.

Flock Safety has built a business model on convincing small-town councils and HOAs that a camera on every corner is just "public safety," while treating its own internal practices — who can query the data, how long it's kept, which agencies share access — as proprietary secrets. That asymmetry is the hypocrisy worth highlighting: your movements become a permanent, searchable record, but the people running the system face none of the same scrutiny they apply to you. Confrontations like this, however messy or informal, do the work that corporate PR departments and most local reporters won't.

If this kind of exchange makes you uncomfortable about how normalized plate surveillance has become in your own town, that discomfort is the right instinct. Check our camera map to see what's already watching your streets, and head to take-action for concrete steps to push back at the local level.