Benn Jordan's flock camera jammer will send you to jail in Florida now
The short version: Florida's new bill criminalizing ALPR-jamming shows lawmakers protecting Flock's surveillance network harder than they protect drivers' privacy, as Louis Rossmann breaks down.
Our Take
Louis Rossmann's breakdown of Florida's response to Benn Jordan's camera-jammer experiments says the quiet part loud: when someone builds a tool to blind a surveillance camera, the legislature doesn't ask why that camera exists in the first place — it just makes the jamming a crime. That's the pattern with ALPR pushback everywhere. Instead of debating whether a private company should be logging every car that passes a given corner, statehouses move to shore up the surveillance infrastructure and punish the people poking holes in it.
The bigger issue isn't whether jamming a camera is legal or wise — Rossmann and Jordan aren't exactly urging you to go do it. It's that this is what happens whenever ordinary people find a way to opt out of a system they never consented to. Flock's network was sold to cities as a crime-fighting tool, but the actual policy conversation keeps circling back to protecting the cameras themselves, not the public they're pointed at.
If you're tired of legislatures writing laws to defend hardware instead of civil liberties, the more useful fight is documenting where this stuff is actually deployed and pushing back through legal channels. Check our camera map to see what's watching your neighborhood, and hit take action for ways to push your local officials on Flock contracts before jamming becomes the only option left on the table.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Louis Rossmann, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.