Robbinsdale, MN 9/15/26 City Council Meeting [Flock Public Comment Portion Only]

Our Take

Credit where it's due: the channel FuckBradsLaw did something most city halls would rather you didn't — it pointed a camera at the public comment portion of a Robbinsdale, MN council meeting on Flock Safety's license plate readers. That footage exists at all is the story here. Robbinsdale, like a lot of small cities that quietly ink deals with Flock, doesn't routinely film citizen comment, which means the only official record of what residents actually said about being surveilled is whatever a private citizen with a phone decided to preserve.

That's not a trivial gap. When a city buys a network of always-on plate cameras, the public's chance to push back happens almost entirely in that comment window. If nobody records it, there's no accountability trail — no clip to share, no quote to hold a council member to, no evidence for the next town facing the same sales pitch from Flock. This video, paired with the companion site DeflockCrystal.com, is exactly the kind of grassroots documentation that keeps these fights from disappearing into meeting minutes nobody reads.

Robbinsdale is a small dot on a much bigger map of ALPR deployment creeping into American neighborhoods with little debate and less transparency. If you want to see how far that network already reaches, check our camera map, and if your own city is quietly voting on Flock contracts, our take-action page has tools to make sure your council meeting doesn't go unrecorded either.