ACLU of North Carolina fighting to remove Flock cameras
The short version: WCNC covers the ACLU of North Carolina's push to strip out Flock ALPR cameras, arguing they violate residents' privacy rights without consent or oversight.
Our Take
Credit to WCNC for giving airtime to the ACLU of North Carolina as it takes direct aim at Flock Safety's camera network. When a civil liberties organization with the ACLU's resources and legal muscle decides a local ALPR rollout is worth fighting, that's a signal communities should pay attention to, not dismiss as fringe paranoia.
This is the pattern we keep seeing nationwide: police departments or city councils quietly approve Flock contracts, cameras go up on street corners and neighborhood entrances, and only later do residents learn their daily movements are being logged into a searchable database that can be queried by other agencies, sometimes states away, with little transparency about who's looking or why. North Carolina's fight is just the latest chapter in a much bigger story about whether local governments can keep expanding mass surveillance infrastructure without real public consent.
If you're in North Carolina or anywhere else, check our camera map to see what's already watching your streets, and head to take-action for tools to push back before the next contract gets signed.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of WCNC, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.