The great thing about Flock is it brings us all together #flock #deflock #flocksafety #nebraska
The short version: A Nebraska creator's sardonic take on Flock cameras uniting communities — but in opposition, not celebration — underscores growing bipartisan pushback against ALPR surveillance.
Our Take
The Minutemen Report's title is doing some heavy lifting here: "the great thing about Flock is it brings us all together" isn't a compliment to the company. It's the kind of unity you see when neighbors who disagree on almost everything discover they all hate having their daily movements logged by a camera on a pole. That's a pattern we keep seeing pop up in town after town — Flock Safety's pitch of painless, automatic policing runs headfirst into people's basic instinct that they shouldn't need a permission slip to drive to church, the pharmacy, or a protest.
We don't have the full transcript here, and we're not going to pretend we do, but the framing tracks with what we hear from Nebraska and dozens of other states: local pushback on ALPR networks tends to cut across party lines because the objection isn't partisan, it's about surveillance infrastructure quietly expanding with little public debate or oversight. When a community realizes their license plates are being read, stored, and potentially shared far beyond their own police department, the politics of the moment stop mattering.
Credit to The Minutemen Report for putting a local, ground-level lens on this. If you want to see whether these cameras have already landed in your area, check our camera map, and if you're ready to push back locally, our take-action guide has practical next steps.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of The Minutemen Report, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.