How We're Getting Lowe's & Hope Depot to Drop Flock ALPR's

Our Take

Fight for the Future is putting its finger on something we've been saying for a while: Flock's business model depends on ordinary businesses becoming surveillance nodes without much public debate. Lowe's and Home Depot parking lots aren't just retail space anymore — they're data collection points feeding a nationwide plate-tracking network, one that's already been shown to have leaked access to immigration enforcement. If you're a hardware chain that relies on day laborers, many of them undocumented, showing up in your lot every morning, bolting an ALPR camera to the light pole above them is a special kind of betrayal.

This is also a useful reminder that Flock's growth isn't just about police departments signing contracts. Big-box retailers, HOAs, and property managers are some of its largest customers, and that means corporate accountability campaigns like this one matter just as much as fights at city council meetings. Pressuring Lowe's and Home Depot to drop Flock is a way of cutting off the network at a commercial choke point rather than fighting it store by store, jurisdiction by jurisdiction.

Credit to Fight for the Future for pushing this into public view. If you want to see whether these cameras are already watching your own neighborhood or workplace, check our camera map, and if you're ready to push back locally, our take-action guide has concrete steps you can take.