Flock cameras are everywhere in Dunn Nc #flock #camera #dunnnc #northcarolina
The short version: A local outlet, Broadslab News Network, documents how thickly Flock ALPR cameras now blanket Dunn, North Carolina — a small town turned surveillance checkpoint.
Our Take
Credit to Broadslab News Network for doing what too few local outlets bother to do: actually pointing a camera at the cameras. When a reporter can drive around a town the size of Dunn and keep spotting Flock Safety units on seemingly every corridor, that's not a coincidence — it's a deployment strategy. Small and mid-size municipalities are exactly where Flock has focused its sales pitch, often with little public debate before city council signs the contract.
What makes these local sightings matter is scale. Each individual camera looks modest, but strung together they create a dragnet that logs every vehicle passing through town, whether or not the driver is suspected of anything. That data doesn't stay local either — it typically flows into a shared network accessible to other agencies, often with minimal oversight on how long it's kept or who gets to query it. A town like Dunn becomes another node in a national tracking system residents never voted on directly.
If you want to see whether your own neighborhood has quietly become part of that network, check our camera map, and if you'd rather push back than just watch, our take-action page has concrete steps for raising this with local officials before the next contract renewal.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Broadslab News Network, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.