Mukwonago, Wisconsin testing Flock safety cameras
The short version: Mukwonago police and town officials are floating a Flock camera trial, the same 'just a test' pitch that almost always ends in a permanent surveillance net.
Our Take
TMJ4 News reports that Mukwonago, Wisconsin is considering a pilot run of Flock Safety license plate readers, framed as a limited proposal between the police department and the town. That word 'test' is doing a lot of work — we've watched this script play out in dozens of towns across the country, where a trial period quietly becomes a permanent, unaccountable data pipeline with almost no public debate about retention, sharing, or oversight before the cameras go live.
What rarely gets asked in these local news segments is who else gets access to the plate scans once they're collected. Flock's network isn't just a local tool; it's built to share data across agencies and states, meaning a camera installed for one town's 'traffic safety' concerns can end up feeding a nationwide surveillance web that tracks ordinary residents who've never been suspected of anything. Mukwonago drivers deserve to know exactly what data-sharing agreements are on the table before a single camera goes up, not after.
If you're in Mukwonago or anywhere nearby, check our map to see what's already been deployed around you, and visit our take-action page for tools to push back before a 'pilot' becomes permanent infrastructure.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of TMJ4 News, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.