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Flock Camera On Swimming Pool In Texas

Mike Sippel Report · 1 month ago

The short version: A Texas pool becomes the latest odd perch for a Flock ALPR camera, showing how these devices keep popping up in unexpected, under-scrutinized places.

Our Take

Credit to Mike Sippel Report for spotting this one: a Flock Safety camera mounted on, of all things, a swimming pool structure in Texas. It's a small detail, but it says a lot about how these devices get deployed — often wherever there's a pole, a fence, or a convenient mount, with little public input about why that specific spot was chosen or what it's actually capturing.

Pools, like parks and neighborhood amenities, are places people expect some baseline privacy, not a camera logging every vehicle that drives past on its way to a quick swim. When ALPR hardware shows up in these casual, semi-residential corners of daily life, it's a reminder that the surveillance net isn't just covering highways and shopping centers — it's creeping into the mundane edges of community space too.

If you've spotted a Flock camera in your own neighborhood, odd placement or not, add it to our map so others can see where this network is actually spreading. And if you want to push back on installations near your home, check out our take-action resources for how to start that fight locally.

This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Mike Sippel Report, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.