Decatur to Add 40 Flock Cameras
The short version: Decatur is set to blanket itself in 40 more Flock cameras, and the local news segment reads more like a company press release than scrutiny.
Our Take
WCIA's segment on Decatur's plan to add 40 Flock Safety cameras is worth watching, but notice what's missing: any voice questioning why a city needs dozens of networked license plate readers tracking every car that passes through. Credit to the station for covering the rollout, but this is the kind of local news spot that reads like it was written in Flock's own marketing department — all upside, no scrutiny of cost, data retention, or who gets access to the footage.
Forty cameras isn't a small pilot program. It's a dragnet. Every plate, every direction of travel, every pattern of life for anyone who drives through Decatur gets logged and stored, searchable by police and, depending on local policy, potentially shared with other agencies far outside city limits. That's the part these feel-good segments never get into: once the network exists, the scope of who can query it tends to grow quietly over time.
If you live in or near Decatur, now's the time to find out where these cameras are actually going up and who's voting to approve them. Check our camera map to see what's already deployed nearby, and head to our take-action page for tools to push back before 40 cameras becomes 80.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Flock, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.