Green Bay police chief defends Flock Safety cameras amid privacy concerns
The short version: Green Bay's police chief is defending Flock cameras even as neighboring Wisconsin towns walk away, and that split says everything about who's actually scrutinizing this tech.
Our Take
Credit to WBAY TV-2 in Green Bay for putting a chief on camera to actually defend ALPR surveillance instead of letting it operate in silence. That's rarer than it should be. But notice the pattern the story itself highlights: nearby cities are ending their Flock contracts while Green Bay digs in. When police leadership is the one reassuring the public that a privately-run camera network scanning every plate and tracking your travel patterns is fine, that's not oversight — that's the vendor's customer grading its own homework.
"Trust us" has never been a sufficient policy for a system that logs where you drive, who you visit, and when, often with zero judicial warrant and data quietly shared across agency lines and state borders. The fact that other municipalities looked at the same technology and walked away suggests this isn't settled science — it's a live political fight, and residents in Green Bay deserve the same debate their neighbors already had out loud.
If you live in or around Green Bay, don't just take the chief's word for it — check our camera map to see what's actually watching your streets, and head to our take-action page if you want to push your city council toward the same exit nearby towns are already taking.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of WBAY TV-2 | Green Bay, WI, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.