WSB-TV Fulton County schools added Flock cameras across its district in 2022.
The short version: A WSB-TV report flags that Fulton County schools quietly rolled out Flock ALPR cameras across the district back in 2022, raising fresh questions about surveillance creep in K-12 settings.
Our Take
Credit to Cindy Thomas-Turner and WSB-TV for surfacing this: Fulton County schools installed Flock license plate readers across the district in 2022, and like so many of these rollouts, it happened with little public debate before the cameras were already running. Schools are supposed to be places where kids learn, not nodes in a growing network that logs the comings and goings of every vehicle on campus and in surrounding neighborhoods.
This is part of a pattern we track closely: Flock systems spreading into spaces — schools, HOAs, small-town police departments — where there's minimal oversight and even less public scrutiny. Once a district signs a contract, that data doesn't just stay local. It can be shared across law enforcement networks far beyond Fulton County, often without parents, teachers, or taxpayers ever being told how the system works, who can access it, or how long the data is kept.
If you want to see how far this has spread in your own area, check the map. And if you think your school board or city council should be answering questions about why these cameras went up and what happens to the data, our take-action page has tools to help you push back.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Cindy Thomas-Turner, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.