Pushing for Flock camera reform

Our Take

Credit to WLUK-TV FOX 11 for covering a story that local news outlets too often ignore: ordinary citizens organizing against a surveillance system they never voted for. The "Green Bay de-Flock meeting" described by Lisa Sanderfoot is exactly the kind of grassroots pushback we like to see — organized, public, and explicitly against vandalism. That distinction matters. The goal isn't to destroy city property; it's to force elected officials to answer for why that property exists in the first place and who it's actually protecting.

It's worth noting the group's emphasis that Green Bay taxpayers are the ones footing the bill for equipment many of them never asked to have watching their streets. That's the quiet absurdity of Flock's business model: residents fund their own surveillance network, often without a public vote, and then have to organize meetings just to ask for an off-ramp. Holding up a sign in front of a camera is a creative, if temporary, workaround — but it's not a substitute for policy change, public records requests, and sustained pressure on city councils and police departments.

If you're in Wisconsin or anywhere else wondering whether Flock has already set up shop in your town, check our camera map to see what's nearby, and visit our take-action page for tools to organize your own version of what Green Bay just did.