Flock CEO calls anti camera group
The short version: A YouTuber says Flock's CEO personally phoned an anti-ALPR group, a move that reads less like outreach and more like a company rattled by pushback.
Our Take
Credit to Nunya Business for surfacing this one. When the CEO of a surveillance company reportedly picks up the phone to call the people organizing against his product, that's not a neutral customer-service gesture — it's a signal that grassroots opposition is landing hard enough to warrant a direct response from the top. Flock Safety has spent years selling itself to city councils as a quiet, bureaucratic utility. A personal call to critics suggests the company sees the backlash as a PR threat worth managing at the executive level, not a fringe complaint to ignore.
We don't know the full contents of that conversation, and we're not going to speculate beyond what's been shown. But the pattern is familiar: companies that build networks of license plate cameras rarely want public scrutiny of how that data is stored, shared, or queried. Outreach to critics can be genuine dialogue, or it can be an attempt to soften coverage before it spreads. Either way, it's worth watching closely, and it's a reminder that organized pushback is having an effect.
If this story makes you want to know what's actually watching your street, check our camera map to see documented ALPR locations near you, and visit our take-action page for ways to push back at the local level.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Nunya Business, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.