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Ian Logan for Warren County Commissioner -#AI #DeFlock #RealDanger

Ian Logan · 4 days ago

The short version: A Warren County Commissioner candidate, Ian Logan, is campaigning partly on opposition to Flock Safety ALPRs, showing local races are becoming ALPR battlegrounds.

Our Take

Credit to Ian Logan for putting license plate readers on the ballot. Most Flock Safety contracts get approved in sleepy council meetings with zero public debate, so seeing a county commissioner candidate campaign openly on #DeFlock and call out the "real danger" of AI-driven surveillance is notable, whatever you think of his broader platform. We can't verify every claim in his video, but the fact that ALPR policy is becoming a campaign issue at all tells you something about how fast this technology has outpaced local oversight.

Warren County residents deserve to know whether their roads are already wired into Flock's network before they vote on who sits on the commission. That's true everywhere, not just here — these cameras log your plate, your location, and your travel patterns every time you drive past one, and that data often gets shared well beyond the jurisdiction that installed it. Check our camera map to see what's already watching your commute.

If you live in Warren County or anywhere else wrestling with a Flock contract, local elections are exactly the pressure point that matters — commissioners and council members are the ones who sign these deals and can just as easily unwind them. Head to our take-action page for tools to raise this with your own local officials, win or lose any single race.

This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Ian Logan, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.