Flock Safety ALPRs Violate Constitutional Rights in Washoe County #shorts
The short version: A Reno-based auditor flags Washoe County's Flock Safety ALPR contract as a potential Fourth Amendment problem, and they're right to ask.
Our Take
Credit to Auditing Reno 911 for doing what more local watchdogs should be doing: showing up, asking questions, and putting a county's Flock Safety contract under the same scrutiny we'd apply to any other government surveillance program. Washoe County isn't unique here — it's one node in a nationwide network of cameras quietly logging where every driver goes, whether or not they're suspected of anything.
That's the core issue this video zeroes in on. ALPR systems don't just catch stolen cars or Amber Alert vehicles — they build a searchable, retained record of ordinary people's movements. When that data sits in a vendor's cloud, shared across agencies and sometimes states, the Fourth Amendment questions aren't hypothetical anymore. Courts are still catching up to what mass, dragnet-style plate collection actually means for probable cause and reasonable suspicion.
If you want to see whether cameras like these are already watching your commute, check our camera map, and if Washoe County's fight sounds familiar, our take-action page has tools for pushing back at the local level.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Auditing Reno 911, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.