Garbage trucks with Flock cameras!!! #subscribe #flock
The short version: A short clip from creator aiandi.anythingandeverything shows Flock cameras mounted on garbage trucks, highlighting how ALPR surveillance keeps spreading onto everyday municipal vehicles.
Our Take
Credit to aiandi.anythingandeverything for catching this one — garbage trucks rolling through neighborhoods with Flock Safety cameras bolted on. It's a small clip, but it says a lot about where this technology is headed. Putting license plate readers on municipal vehicles that already drive every street, every week, turns routine trash pickup into a rolling surveillance network that covers way more ground than a fixed pole ever could.
This is the pattern we keep seeing with Flock: cameras quietly migrate from a few "high crime" intersections onto school buses, utility trucks, and now sanitation fleets, with little public debate about who approved it or what happens to the data. Most residents have no idea their garbage truck is also scanning plates, and that lack of transparency is exactly the problem — consent and oversight get skipped while the camera footprint keeps growing.
If you want to see how far this has already spread in your area, check our camera map, and if you think your city council should be answering questions about contracts like this, our take-action page has steps to push back.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of aiandi.anythingandeverything, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.