Flock called the police on him for this! (shocking!)
The short version: Yak Motley highlights the irony of Flock's surveillance network allegedly prompting police contact against someone simply filming its cameras in public.
Our Take
Creator Yak Motley flags a troubling wrinkle in the Flock Safety story: a camera network built to watch the public getting uneasy when the public watches back. If the account holds up, it's a textbook case of surveillance infrastructure treating basic accountability — filming equipment installed on public roads — as a threat worth a police response.
We don't have full details on this specific incident, and we're not going to speculate beyond what's shown. But the broader pattern is familiar to anyone tracking ALPR rollouts: opaque vendor relationships, little public oversight, and a chilling effect on the very transparency these systems claim to support. When a company's reflex is to involve law enforcement against someone recording a camera pointed at them, that says something about whose interests the system actually protects.
This is exactly the kind of friction point we track at DeFlock USA. If you want to see how many of these cameras are already watching your own streets, check our map, and if you think your town shouldn't have unchecked ALPR surveillance, our take-action page has concrete next steps.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Yak Motley, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.