8 Flock Safety License Plate Readers Stop Crime in Fitzgerald, GA
The short version: Flock's own channel repackages a local WALB segment touting 8 cameras in Fitzgerald, GA, as a crime-fighting win — with zero independent scrutiny.
Our Take
Let's be clear about what this is: a company posting a local news hit about its own product on its own YouTube channel. Flock Safety didn't just get covered by WALB — it's now the distributor of that coverage, which means the framing, the b-roll, and the "stops crime" headline all serve the same goal, selling more cameras to the next city council. That's not journalism, it's marketing with a news station's logo borrowed for credibility.
Fitzgerald, Georgia is a small town, and eight ALPRs sound modest, but the pattern is the same one we track everywhere: a handful of cameras gets credited with solving crimes without any independent audit of false positives, how long plate data sits in the system, who else can query it, or whether it's plugged into Flock's nationwide network that lets cops in one state search another's reads. Local news segments almost never ask those questions, and neither does the company footing the bill for the footage.
If Fitzgerald has Flock cameras, they're already logged and mapped, and if your town doesn't yet, this is exactly the kind of story used to convince it to. Check our map to see what's already watching your plates, and hit take action if you want to push back before eight cameras becomes eighty.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Flock, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.