Flock Cameras & Why The Government* Uses Them! Feat. Keyanna Jones Moore

Our Take

TIN! Media teams up with Keyanna Jones Moore to ask the question most local news segments skip: not just that Flock Safety cameras are everywhere, but why police departments and city councils keep signing the contracts. That's the right question. The sales pitch is always the same — solve crime faster, find stolen cars, catch the bad guy — but the infrastructure being built is a permanent, searchable record of where every driver goes, sold to agencies as a subscription with almost none of the oversight that a record this sensitive should require.

What rarely gets mentioned in the pitch meetings is how this data moves. Flock's network lets agencies query cameras in other states, outside their own jurisdiction's rules, and that patchwork of access is exactly how a 'public safety tool' turns into a nationwide tracking system with no single agency accountable for the whole thing. Once a camera is up, it doesn't stop recording when the original justification stops applying.

We're glad creators like TIN! Media are putting this in front of new audiences, because public pressure is still the biggest check on how fast this expands. If you want to see what's already watching your own streets, check our camera map, and if you'd rather do something about it than just read about it, our take-action page has concrete next steps.