Auditor Uses Flock Cameras as reason to Film a 12 Year Old Girls Soccer Game

Our Take

There's a difference between documenting surveillance infrastructure in public and using 'transparency' as a shield to point a camera at a 12-year-old's soccer game. NCR News Network's reporting captures exactly why that distinction matters — when auditors conflate legitimate ALPR scrutiny with filming children, they hand Flock Safety and every police department defending these networks a free PR win. Suddenly the story isn't 'why does our town have a license plate reader logging every car that passes' — it's 'look at this creep with a camera.'

That matters because the actual fight against mass surveillance depends on credibility. Flock's camera network has expanded into thousands of communities with little public debate, minimal audit trails, and plenty of documented misuse by police accessing the data for personal reasons unrelated to any warrant. That's the real story. Stunts like the one in this video let Flock's defenders change the subject, painting every critic as a weirdo instead of someone asking why a private company is building a de facto national vehicle-tracking system.

Credit to NCR News Network for calling this out rather than platforming it uncritically. If you want to know what's actually happening with ALPR cameras near you — not theater, just data — check our camera map, and if you want to push back the right way, our take-action page has real steps that don't involve filming anyone's kid.