WHAT THE FLOCK? — 13 DAYS IN JAIL
The short version: A YouTuber recounts 13 days behind bars after what looks like a bad ALPR-driven stop, underscoring how little due process surrounds Flock's camera network.
Our Take
Olde Salty Bastards - The Show lays out a gut-punch of a story: someone goes to jail for nearly two weeks before the mistake behind their arrest comes to light. We don't know every detail of what triggered the stop, but the shape of it is painfully familiar to anyone tracking Flock Safety's automated license plate readers — a system that flags cars first and asks questions later, often with a human being's liberty hanging in the balance.
This is exactly the kind of story we keep warning about. ALPR networks are sold as passive, harmless infrastructure, but the moment they feed a bad read, an outdated hotlist entry, or a mismatched plate into the hands of police, the consequences aren't abstract — they're thirteen days of someone's actual life. There's rarely a meaningful appeals process baked in, and the burden of proof seems to land on the person wrongly swept up, not the vendor or the department running the cameras.
Credit to Olde Salty Bastards for giving this story air time instead of letting it disappear into a case file. If you want to know whether these cameras are watching your own neighborhood, check our camera map, and if this story makes your blood boil, our take-action page has concrete steps for pushing back before the next wrongful arrest happens.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Olde Salty Bastards - The Show, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.