Flock Lied to a City Council About Car Tracking (AGAIN!)
The short version: Flock reportedly told Oshkosh's council its cameras don't build movement heat maps, the police chief checked, found out that's false, and the council killed the contract 7-0.
Our Take
Credit to Verified Privacy VPN for catching this one, because it's the same story we keep seeing city after city: a Flock rep tells local officials the system is narrow and limited, and then someone with actual access to the backend discovers it isn't. In this case it took an Oshkosh police chief actually testing the claim to find out the cameras can, in fact, stitch together vehicle movements into exactly the kind of pattern-of-life data Flock swore wasn't happening. That's not a misunderstanding — that's a company telling elected officials what they want to hear to get a contract signed.
What makes this notable isn't just the lie, it's the outcome: a 7-0 vote to kill the deal in a single meeting. That's what happens when a council actually does its homework instead of rubber-stamping a sales pitch. Most communities don't have a chief willing to independently verify vendor claims before the ink dries, which is exactly why these systems get installed first and questioned later, if ever.
This is the pattern we track at DeFlock — check our camera map to see what's already been installed near you, and if your city is about to take a Flock pitch at face value, use our take-action resources to push for the same scrutiny Oshkosh gave this contract before, not after, approval.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Verified Privacy VPN (vp.net), published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.