Flock Cameras are being used for THIS REASON

Our Take

Stugi's video surfaces something we've warned about for a while: license plate readers sold as "public safety" tools can just as easily become instruments for monitoring political activity. If law enforcement is being trained to use Flock's network to track attendance at protests like No Kings, that's not a hypothetical slippery slope anymore — it's the slope itself.

This matters because ALPR systems don't discriminate between a stolen car and a Honda Civic parked outside a rally. Once plate data is logged, timestamped, and geotagged across a city's camera grid, it becomes a ready-made map of who showed up, when, and how often. Departments insist these systems are for solving crimes, but training materials that specifically address protest tracking suggest a very different use case — one that chills speech and assembly, two things the Constitution was supposed to protect.

We can't verify every claim in a single webinar leak, but the pattern fits what we've documented nationwide: quiet expansion of camera networks with little oversight and even less transparency about how the data gets used. If you want to see how many of these cameras are already watching your town, check our camera map, and if you're ready to push back, our take-action page has concrete steps for getting your local government to answer for this.