Flock Cameras & Privacy in Fishers + Indiana High School NIL | Fridays with Larry
The short version: Larry Lannan's Fridays with Larry digs into Fishers, Indiana's 39-camera Flock network, asking the question every city council should be asking.
Our Take
Credit to Larry Lannan for putting local numbers on the table: 39 Flock Safety cameras in Fishers, Indiana, isn't an abstraction, it's a dragnet with a specific size. That's the kind of granular reporting this issue needs more of, because "public safety tool" and "privacy risk" aren't mutually exclusive, they're usually the same system wearing two different name tags depending on who's asking.
What rarely makes it into these local segments is the part that should worry people most: these cameras don't just watch Fishers. Flock's networked system means plate scans can be queried by other agencies across state lines, often with little transparency about who's pulling your travel history and why. A system sold as catching car thieves can just as easily log who drove to a protest, a clinic, or a church. "Both/and" framing sounds balanced, but it undersells how normalized constant tracking has become in towns that never voted on it.
If you want to see whether your own neighborhood has been wired up the same way, check our camera map, and if Fishers' 39 cameras make you uneasy about what's sitting on your corner, our take-action page has concrete steps for pushing back at the city council level.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Larry Lannan, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.