Chip Roy: Flock Cameras Are Taking Away Your Liberty

Our Take

When a Freedom Caucus stalwart like Rep. Chip Roy starts warning that Flock Safety's camera networks are "taking away your liberty," it's worth paying attention. This isn't a fringe complaint from one side of the aisle — it's becoming one of the rare issues where privacy hawks on the left and limited-government conservatives on the right actually agree. Credit to The Alliance for Secure AI for sitting down with Roy and getting a sitting member of Congress on record about the dangers of AI-driven mass surveillance.

The core problem Roy is pointing at is structural: these aren't a handful of traffic cameras, they're a nationwide, searchable database of where your car has been, built by a private company and shared freely with law enforcement agencies with little transparency or judicial oversight. That's a fundamentally different animal than a cop running your plate once. It's a permanent record of movement, available to be queried by any agency that plugs in, with almost no public accounting of how often, why, or by whom.

Whatever your politics, a system like that deserves scrutiny, not quiet expansion. If you want to see how close this network has gotten to your own neighborhood, check out our camera map, and if you want to push back, our take-action page has concrete steps for getting your local government to think twice before signing another Flock contract.