Flock Battle Small Win but more work to be done. #flock #greenvillenc #pittcounty #

Our Take

Credit where it's due: it's local creators like The Matt Case's of Comedy Tour keeping an eye on Flock Safety's footprint in Pitt County, North Carolina. We don't have the granular details of what exactly moved the needle in Greenville, but the framing of the video — a 'small win' with 'more work to be done' — is the honest, unglamorous reality of pushing back on mass surveillance infrastructure. Nobody shuts down a city's entire ALPR network in one council meeting. Progress usually looks like a pause, a tabled vote, a few more public records requests, or a council member asking harder questions than they did last time.

That incremental framing matters because Flock's sales pitch depends on communities not paying attention. Once cameras go up quietly and nobody pushes back, they tend to multiply fast, and so does the appetite among local agencies to share that data well beyond the county line. A 'small win' can mean the difference between a program on track for expansion and one that's suddenly facing public scrutiny it didn't expect.

If you're in Pitt County or anywhere else watching this kind of fight play out, check our camera map to see what's already been documented near you, and head to our take-action page for concrete steps — records requests, council contacts, and talking points — to keep your own local 'small win' moving forward.