Your Right to Privacy Matters! No More Flock Cameras in TN! Vote Michelle Foreman!

Our Take

Credit to Michelle Foreman for making automated license plate readers a campaign issue rather than a footnote. Most Flock deployments get approved in quiet city council votes with little public debate, so it's notable when a candidate for Tennessee's District 65 puts 'no more Flock cameras' on a yard sign and says it out loud to voters.

We don't endorse candidates, but we track the politics around ALPRs because this is exactly how mass surveillance infrastructure gets normalized: one department, one budget line, one grant at a time, with almost no legislative oversight. When a local race turns into a referendum on whether your daily movements should be logged and shared with a private company's network, that's a sign the surveillance debate is finally reaching the people who actually have to live under these cameras.

If you want to see whether Flock or other ALPR cameras are already watching roads near you in Tennessee or anywhere else, check our camera map, and if you want to push back locally, our take-action page has steps for raising this with your own city council, regardless of what happens in any one statehouse race.