Kim

Our Take

Credit to DeFlockILM for getting a camera into the room where these decisions actually get made. Public comment sessions like this one in New Hanover County are where the Flock Safety sales pitch meets the people who actually have to live under the cameras. When a resident named Kim stands up at a commissioners meeting to question an ALPR contract, she's doing the unglamorous work that keeps a surveillance rollout from sliding through on autopilot.

This is the pattern across the country: a county signs a Flock contract, often with little public debate, and the cameras go up logging every plate that passes, whether or not anyone's suspected of anything. The only real check on that pipeline is local residents showing up, asking who has access to the data, how long it's retained, and whether any of it has actually reduced crime or just expanded a database. New Hanover County deserves the same scrutiny every other county with Flock cameras gets.

If you want to see whether your own neighborhood is already wired up, check our camera map, and if you're ready to push back the way Kim did, our take-action resources walk you through how to raise it with your own commissioners.