Flock Cameras in Indiana

Our Take

It says something about how normalized automated license plate readers have become that a real estate brokerage, F.C. Tucker Company, is the one putting out an explainer video on Flock cameras in Indiana. Not a civil liberties group, not a journalist digging into police contracts — a company that sells houses. That alone tells you how deeply this infrastructure has embedded itself into everyday life, treated as neutral background scenery rather than a statewide tracking network.

The video's own framing is the tell: thousands of vehicles pass these cameras daily, and most drivers have no idea. That's not a footnote, that's the whole problem. Flock's business model depends on invisibility and public unfamiliarity. When a system logging your car's location, timestamp, and travel patterns can operate for years without most residents knowing it exists, that's not a security feature, that's a surveillance dragnet built on public silence.

Indiana is far from alone — this same quiet buildout is happening block by block in nearly every state, usually without a public vote or real debate about retention, sharing, or who gets access to the data. Check our camera map to see what's already been installed near you in Indiana and beyond, and if you want to push back on your local council or police department, our take-action page has concrete steps to start that fight.