The Accusation 'Misleading The Public'

Our Take

Credit to the channel R2R Righteous to Radical Rights 4 Peaceful Change for doing the unglamorous work of sitting through local meetings and public records to call out what they describe as Delhi, Ohio leaders misleading residents about Flock Safety cameras. We haven't independently verified every claim in the video, but the broader pattern it points to is painfully familiar: local officials rolling out ALPR networks with vague talk of "safety" while dodging specifics about data retention, who gets access, and how footage gets shared with other agencies.

This is exactly the kind of grassroots accountability work that mass surveillance infrastructure depends on citizens not doing. Flock's pitch to small towns is almost always the same — low upfront cost, big promises, minimal public debate — and by the time residents start asking hard questions, the cameras are already bolted to poles. When local creators start a whole series tracking how their town's leadership talks about Flock versus what the contracts and data-sharing agreements actually say, that's the friction surveillance expansion is supposed to avoid.

If you're in Ohio or anywhere else wondering whether your town already has these cameras, check our camera map to see what's been documented near you, and if you want to push back at your next council meeting, our take-action resources have the questions worth asking before local leaders get to write their own narrative.