Flock Cameras and the Surveillance State
The short version: WIBC talk radio digs into Flock cameras and the surveillance state, adding local Indiana radio's voice to a national reckoning over ALPR overreach.
Our Take
When talk radio starts asking whether license plate cameras are turning your town into a surveillance state, you know the conversation has broken out of activist circles and into the mainstream. Credit to 93.1 WIBC for putting Flock Safety's rapidly expanding camera network on the air for a general audience that includes plenty of people who've never heard of ALPRs but drive past them every day without knowing it.
That's really the core problem here: these cameras get installed with little public debate, often justified as a tool for solving one specific crime, and then quietly become part of a permanent, searchable log of everywhere you drive. Once that infrastructure exists, it doesn't stay narrowly scoped — it gets shared across jurisdictions, queried for reasons that have nothing to do with the original pitch, and rarely gets removed once the initial controversy fades. A local radio segment airing skepticism about that trajectory is exactly the kind of friction this system needs.
If this segment has you wondering how much of your own town is already wired up, check our camera map to see what's nearby, and head to our take-action page for concrete steps to push back at your next city council meeting.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of 93.1 WIBC, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.