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The short version: A Clermont County, Ohio man charged with damaging Flock ALPR cameras reportedly had those charges dropped, as covered by The Greis Report.
Our Take
The Greis Report is out with a short update on Cody Morelock, the Ohio man who became something of a folk hero after he was accused of disabling Flock Safety cameras in Clermont County. According to the video, prosecutors dropped the charges against him. We can't verify every detail of the case from a YouTube short, so take the legal specifics with appropriate caution, but the headline itself is worth sitting with: a case built around protecting a private vendor's surveillance hardware apparently didn't hold up.
Set aside the clickbait framing about Trump and North Korea — that's noise. The real story is the growing pattern of ordinary people pushing back against a camera network that was installed in their communities with little public debate, and prosecutors or courts declining to make examples of them. Whether or not you think vandalism is the right tactic, the underlying anger is about consent: these cameras log every passing driver's plate, location, and time, feeding a searchable database that police departments and now ICE and other agencies can query, often with minimal oversight.
If you want to know whether Flock or similar ALPR cameras are already watching your own street, check our camera map, and if you'd rather organize a public records request or push back at a city council meeting than risk a felony charge, our take-action page has the tools to do it the legal way.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of The Greis Report, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.