Stop Flock!
The short version: Texas Civil Rights Project's "Stop Flock!" video lays out real cases of ALPR abuse — stalking, abortion-related tracking, and ICE access — that show why this surveillance net needs dismantling, not just policies.
Our Take
The Texas Civil Rights Project's new video, Stop Flock!, does something a lot of corporate press releases won't: it names names and counts incidents. A police chief running 228 searches to stalk an ex-girlfriend. A sheriff in Johnson County reaching into Illinois camera networks to track a woman seeking an abortion in a state where it's legal. These aren't hypothetical "what if an officer goes rogue" scenarios — they're documented abuses of a system that was sold to city councils as a tool for catching stolen cars and Amber Alerts.
The ICE piece is just as damning. Flock Safety has a written policy against using its network for immigration enforcement, and TCRP's reporting shows that policy means little when DPS and local agencies are functioning as pass-throughs, handing ICE the keys anyway. A rule on paper doesn't stop a query from happening. Once a nationwide grid of cameras is logging every plate, every driver, every location, the only real safeguard is not having that grid in the first place — because audits and "misuse policies" are reactive, written after the stalking, after the tracked abortion seeker, after the ICE handoff.
Credit to TCRP for pushing this into public view and giving Texans a reason to show up to city council meetings. If you want to see what's watching your own block, check our camera map, and if you're ready to push back locally, our take-action page has the tools to start.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Texas Civil Rights Project, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.