¿Sabías que New Brunswick tiene cámaras Flock que pueden ayudar a investigar delitos?
The short version: A Spanish-language explainer from EricksonPOV walks New Brunswick residents through how local Flock cameras aid police investigations, but skips the privacy trade-offs.
Our Take
Credit to EricksonPOV for doing something too few outlets bother with: explaining Flock Safety's ALPR network to New Brunswick's Spanish-speaking community. Surveillance policy debates in the U.S. happen almost entirely in English, which means the neighborhoods most likely to be over-policed are often the last to know these cameras exist, let alone how they work. That gap matters, and closing it is worth doing.
That said, the framing here — cameras as a helpful tool for solving robberies and accidents — is the same pitch Flock's sales team gives to city councils. What's missing is the other half of the story: these systems log every plate that passes, not just ones tied to a crime, and that data can sit in databases accessible to agencies far beyond the local police department, including ICE and other federal partners in some documented cases. 'Helping investigate crimes' is the marketing copy; blanket location tracking of everyone who drives through town is the actual product.
If you're in New Brunswick or anywhere else, check our camera map to see what's already watching your commute, and visit take action for ways to push your council for transparency on retention, access logs, and who else gets to see the data.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of EricksonPOV, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.