found a flock camera.

Our Take

Credit to noedit101 for doing something most drivers never do: actually looking up and clocking the hardware watching them back. The video itself is sparse — no deep investigation, no agency records request, just a camera spotted and pointed out — but that's kind of the whole story with Flock Safety's rollout. These things get bolted to poles along ordinary streets with little public notice, and most people drive past them a hundred times without ever registering what they are.

That's why citizen spotting matters more than it might seem. Every camera someone identifies and shares is a data point the rest of us can use to understand how fast this network is spreading and where it's creeping into neighborhoods without a real public debate about cost, data retention, or who gets access to the plate reads. One video of one camera isn't a scandal, but a thousand people doing what noedit101 just did is how you build a real picture of a surveillance system that companies and police departments would rather you not think too hard about.

If you want to see how many of these cameras have already been logged in your area, check our camera map, and if you're ready to push back on a local ALPR contract, our take-action page has a starting point.