CAN FLOCK CAMERAS STORE DATA?

Our Take

Attorney Stephanie, a Georgia lawyer breaking down Flock Safety's ALPR systems for a general audience, is asking the right question: can these cameras store data? The honest answer is yes, and the bigger problem is that the retention windows, sharing agreements, and feature sets keep shifting under contracts most city councils never fully read before signing.

That's the core danger with Flock-style networks. They aren't static license plate cameras bolted to a pole — they're a rolling software platform that vendors update on their own timeline, often adding new recognition and search capabilities after the public hearing is long over. Residents get told one story at adoption time and a different, more expansive system a year later, with no new vote required.

We appreciate creators like Attorney Stephanie translating this for people outside the privacy-advocate bubble, because most drivers still have no idea this infrastructure is watching their daily movements. If you want to see what's already deployed near you, check our camera map, and if you want to push back on retention policies and silent feature creep in your own city, our take-action page has concrete next steps.