Flock camera capabilities confirm to grow. Drones will be next. "For safety"
The short version: A Georgia state Senate candidate warns that Flock's camera network keeps expanding its capabilities, with drones framed as the next 'safety' upgrade.
Our Take
Credit to Alec Miller, running for Georgia State Senate District 31, for flagging a pattern we've tracked for a while: Flock Safety's product roadmap never seems to stop at license plates. Every rollout is justified with the same word — 'safety' — and every expansion quietly normalizes more persistent, more automated tracking of ordinary people who've done nothing wrong. Drones are the logical next step for a company that's already built a nationwide, searchable database of where your car has been.
This is exactly how surveillance creep works: it never arrives all at once. It's a camera here, a software update there, a drone pilot program 'for officer safety,' and suddenly a patchwork of local ALPR deployments has become a de facto aerial and ground surveillance grid with no public vote and little oversight. Candidates talking about this on the campaign trail is a good sign that voters are starting to ask the right questions before city councils sign the next contract.
If you want to see how far this has already spread near you, check our camera map, and if you'd rather not wait for your city to quietly add drones to the mix, our take-action page has concrete steps for pushing back at the local level.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Alec Miller for Georgia State Senate 31, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.