Robinson police use Flock cameras to track semi-truck traffic on local streets

Our Take

Credit to 25 News KXXV for the local reporting, but let's call this what it is: another small-town department finding a feel-good pretext — heavy trucks tearing up residential streets — to justify a network of cameras that logs every single vehicle passing by, not just the semis. Flock's pitch always starts with a narrow, sympathetic problem. The infrastructure that gets installed doesn't stay narrow.

Once those cameras are up, the data doesn't know the difference between a freight truck violating a weight limit and your neighbor driving to church. Every plate, every car, every pattern of life gets logged and stored, searchable by any officer with access and shareable across the increasingly sprawling Flock network that spans thousands of agencies nationwide. A truck-traffic problem is a legitimate local issue; a permanent ALPR dragnet is a massively disproportionate solution that outlives whatever justified it in the first place.

This is exactly how Flock's footprint grows town by town — one reasonable-sounding use case at a time, with almost no public debate about retention, access, or oversight. Check our map to see if Robinson or a department near you is already running these systems, and visit our take-action page if you want to push back before it becomes permanent infrastructure in your community.