Cannabis Corner Radio: Sarah Wood, DeFlock Milford
The short version: A New Haven Independent radio segment gives airtime to a Milford, Connecticut organizer pushing back on Flock Safety ALPRs, proof that local resistance is spreading beyond big cities.
Our Take
It says something about where this fight has landed that a show called Cannabis Corner Radio is making room for a conversation about license plate readers. Sarah Wood's DeFlock Milford effort is exactly the kind of grassroots pushback we like to see: a resident in a mid-sized Connecticut town asking hard questions about who's watching the cameras bolted to utility poles on their street, who has access to the data, and whether anyone actually voted on it. Credit to WNHH and the New Haven Independent for giving that conversation a mic outside the usual local-news cycle.
What's notable isn't the subject matter so much as the venue. Surveillance organizing is breaking out of city council chambers and police commission meetings and into community radio, call-in shows, and local podcasts — the places where ordinary people actually talk to each other. That's how this becomes a normal topic of conversation instead of a niche policy fight nobody outside city hall pays attention to.
If Milford has Flock cameras near you, or you're not sure, check our camera map to see what's already been documented, and if you want to start your own local push like Sarah Wood's, our take-action resources are a good place to start.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of New Haven Independent, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.