Kansas City attorney says Flock changes might not work

Our Take

FOX4 Kansas City's report captures something we hear constantly: Flock rolls out a new accountability feature, and lawyers, civil liberties advocates, and just plain skeptical residents ask the obvious question — does a settings change actually fix a system whose entire business model is logging every car that passes a camera? An attorney publicly doubting that these tweaks solve the underlying problem is a healthy sign that the pushback against blanket ALPR surveillance isn't going away, no matter how many press releases Flock puts out.

That's the pattern we keep documenting at DeFlock: cosmetic policy updates get announced whenever public scrutiny spikes, but the cameras keep recording, the data keeps flowing to whatever agency wants it, and the audit trail is still whatever Flock and local police decide to share. Kansas City residents deserve to know exactly how many of these cameras are watching their streets, not just take a company's word that new dashboards or disclosure rules make surveillance accountable.

If you're in the KC metro or anywhere else, check our camera map to see what's already been deployed near you, and head to take-action for concrete steps to push back at your next city council meeting. Credit to FOX4 News Kansas City for putting a skeptical legal voice on the record instead of just running Flock's talking points.