THIS IS HYPOCRISY: Flock Safety built its business around surveillance

Our Take

Nimra News 1 is pointing at something we've been saying for a while: Flock Safety's entire business model runs on the exact thing it claims to guard against. A company that builds its pitch around "protecting communities" does so by blanketing those same communities with cameras that log every car, every driver, every trip — then sells access to that data to police departments, HOAs, and increasingly to federal agencies. Calling that hypocrisy isn't a stretch, it's just accurate.

The irony cuts deeper when you consider how little oversight most of these deployments actually get. Flock markets itself as a crime-fighting tool, but the infrastructure it installs doesn't discriminate between a wanted suspect and your neighbor driving to church. Once that plate data exists, it can be queried, shared, and retained well beyond whatever narrow use case got the cameras approved in the first place. That's the real hypocrisy: a surveillance company telling the public to trust it with surveillance.

We'd encourage you to check our camera map to see how far this network has spread in your own area, and if you're ready to push back, our take-action page has concrete steps for getting these cameras scrutinized — or removed — at the local level. Credit to Nimra News 1 for putting a spotlight on this contradiction.