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The short version: A Mississippi creator known as TATER spotlights a Flock ALPR camera in Booneville, showing how small-town surveillance is spreading far beyond big cities.
Our Take
Credit to TATER for doing what local reporters rarely do anymore: pointing a camera at the cameras. This clip, shared on Facebook out of Booneville, Mississippi, is a reminder that Flock Safety's automated license plate readers aren't just a big-city phenomenon. They're showing up in small towns where city councils often approve them with little public debate and even less scrutiny of how the data gets stored, shared, or used down the line.
That's exactly why grassroots documentation matters so much right now. Most residents have no idea a camera like this exists on their route to work or church until someone like TATER points it out. Once it's logged, it becomes part of the public record of how far this network actually reaches — which is precisely what our camera map is built to track nationwide.
Booneville is a small dot, but it's part of a much bigger pattern: thousands of towns quietly wiring themselves into a private surveillance grid with little oversight. If you've spotted a Flock camera in your own area, or want to push back on a city council vote before it happens, check out our take-action page for ways to get involved.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of TATER, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.