GOP and women are for flock cameras. Has the GOP become gay?
The short version: A YouTube creator frames growing support for Flock cameras as a partisan and gender split, but the real story is that ALPR surveillance is a bipartisan problem demanding scrutiny, not culture-war point-scoring.
Our Take
Dr. Matt Rostami's video, provocative title aside, pokes at something real: support for Flock Safety cameras doesn't split neatly along party lines. Republicans who campaign on limited government and Fourth Amendment rights have voted to fund ALPR networks in plenty of towns, and plenty of self-described progressives have done the same in the name of "public safety." That's worth talking about — but turning it into a culture-war jab about who's "really" conservative or coded language about gender does nothing to explain why local officials keep signing checks to a private surveillance vendor without public debate.
We're not going to litigate the video's framing, but we will say this: the bipartisan comfort with ALPR expansion is exactly why grassroots pushback matters more than partisan finger-pointing. Whether the vote came from a red council or a blue one, the outcome is the same — a camera logging every plate that passes, feeding a database shared well beyond the town that paid for it.
If you want to see how thick that network has gotten near you, check our camera map, and if you're ready to push back locally regardless of who's on your council, our take-action guide has the tools to start.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Doctor Matt Rostami MD, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.