Understanding Flock Cameras: A Conversation with Millcreek Police Chief Carter Mook
The short version: A township PR sit-down lets Millcreek's police chief frame Flock ALPRs on his own terms, with little room for pushback or hard questions.
Our Take
When a local government produces a friendly Q&A with its own police chief to "answer residents' questions" about surveillance tech, it's worth remembering who's holding the microphone. Millcreek Township's video with Chief Carter Mook is a PR exercise dressed up as transparency — the kind of soft-focus messaging departments roll out after they've already signed the Flock contract, not before. Credit to the township for at least addressing public curiosity, but a chief explaining his own department's tool is not the same as independent scrutiny.
These conversations almost never cover the parts that matter most: how long plate data sits in Flock's cloud, who else can query it, whether it's shared with ICE or out-of-state agencies, and what happens when the system misidentifies a car and sends an officer in with guns drawn. "Trust us, it's for solving crime" is the standard line in every one of these videos, regardless of town or state, and it rarely comes with hard numbers on actual case outcomes versus the blanket tracking of every driver who passes through.
If Flock cameras are rolling through Millcreek, residents deserve more than a department's own talking points — they deserve to know exactly where the cameras are and how to push back. Check our camera map to see what's already watching your commute, and visit take action for ways to demand real answers from your local officials.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Millcreek Township, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.