How Virginia is Fighting Flock Cameras
The short version: A Virginia attorney's video on legal pushback against Flock cameras is a reminder that courtrooms and statehouses are as important a battleground as city council meetings.
Our Take
Andrew Flusche, a Virginia attorney who covers legal topics for drivers on his channel, turns his attention to how his home state is pushing back against Flock Safety's ALPR network. We haven't seen the video's specifics beyond the title, but the framing matters: Virginia has already been a hotspot for scrutiny of these cameras, and any accounting of legislative or legal resistance is worth amplifying. Credit to Flusche for putting a lawyer's lens on a fight that too often gets treated as a purely technical or law-enforcement issue.
That lens matters because the Flock fight isn't just about privacy advocates showing up to public comment periods, it's also about statutes, court challenges, and the fine print of data-sharing agreements that most residents never see. When an attorney starts explaining how state law can be used to constrain warrantless license plate tracking, it gives regular people language and leverage they didn't have before. Legal pressure and legislative pressure reinforce each other, and Virginia's experience could be a template other states borrow from.
If you're trying to figure out whether your own town has quietly wired itself into this surveillance grid, check our camera map to see what's been documented near you. And if watching another state fight back makes you want to do more than just watch, our take-action page has concrete steps for pushing back where you live.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Andrew Flusche Attorney at Law, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.