flock safety Testimony
The short version: A YouTuber highlights Flock Safety skipping a congressional subpoena while a local sheriff testified about leaning on the company's ALPR network — a no-show that says plenty.
Our Take
Credit to Hulkanator Smash for surfacing this clip: Congress reportedly subpoenaed Flock Safety, and the company didn't send anyone to answer for it. Instead, lawmakers heard from a local sheriff about how dependent his department has become on Flock's camera network. That contrast — a surveillance vendor ducking oversight while law enforcement openly describes relying on its product — is exactly the kind of accountability gap we've been tracking.
Flock has built a business model on embedding itself quietly into thousands of towns, and that same posture shows up at the federal level: avoid scrutiny, let police departments do the talking, and let the infrastructure keep expanding in the meantime. When a company that profiles millions of drivers a day won't show up to testify, that's not a technical scheduling issue, it's a signal about how little public accountability they think they owe.
If you want to see how far this network already reaches, check our camera map, and if you're ready to push back on unchecked ALPR deployment in your own city, our take-action page has concrete steps.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Hulkanator Smash, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.