Flock Walk - Privacy eroded by ALPR systems across the US
The short version: West Side Storytellers document a Flock Walk in Orange, CA, part of a national week of action putting faces and feet to the fight against ALPR surveillance.
Our Take
There's something powerful about watching a community physically walk its own streets to find the cameras watching them back. That's exactly what West Side Storytellers captured in Orange, California, as part of a coordinated National Week of Action Against ALPRs. It's one thing to read a stat about Flock Safety's footprint; it's another to see neighbors standing under a mast arm, realizing their daily commute has been logged, timestamped, and stored in a database they never agreed to join.
This kind of grassroots documentation matters because Flock's growth has largely happened in the dark — quiet council votes, vendor demos, and press releases that gloss over retention periods, data-sharing agreements, and the total absence of a warrant requirement. A short documentary like this one does the unglamorous work of translating abstract 'mass surveillance' into a walk down a real block, past real cameras, with real people asking real questions about who's watching and why.
Credit to West Side Storytellers for putting a camera on the cameras. If Orange has you wondering what's mounted near your own house, check our map to see what's already been found, and if you want to push back where you live, our take-action page has the tools to start.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of West Side Storytellers, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.