# Flock Cameras Won. It's Officially Over.
# Loyal Moses — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a645hfYZtps

In every city and every state in this
country, there's a camera just like that
in your neighborhood on your city
streets and it's recording everywhere
you go when you leave your home. It's
recording you when you take your
children to school, when you go to work,
when you go to the doctor's office. It's
even recording your plates when you're
going to the places that you don't want
other people to know about.
Every single trip time stamped and
stored in a searchable database. A
database of suspects, a database that
they are actively using to find
criminals. Now, you aren't a criminal,
but you are now in a database and you're
being treated like a criminal. Any cop
in the country can search that database.
They don't need a warrant and they don't
need a judge. They can just pull up your
plate and see the entire map of your
life. Now, they'll tell you that they're
only using it to solve crimes, but the
person running your plate isn't always
chasing a car thief. Sometimes they're
abusing that citywide mass surveillance
system for illegal and illicit purposes
to hunt down ex-girlfriends and
ex-husbands. And there is actually a
website right now where you can go to
check if your own plate is already
sitting in one of these logs. Now, I'll
show you where you can find that
information and even how you can help
contribute to help stop this insane
government overreach.
We are using the tool
to try to solve felonies and gross
misdemeanors and a heavy focus on
assaults,
uh, murders on, uh,
Well, the truth is we don't believe you
because when Flock cameras first came to
Washington state into the valley, they
were for felony crimes only and since
then you've lowered it to gross
misdemeanors. So, we have to assume
what's coming next.
You surveil us by telling us that we
have no reasonable expectation of
privacy when we're in public, but now
you've made it illegal for us to request
the data from you by telling us that
information, the license plates,
everything from that Flock camera is
private now. Now, Flock cameras like
this one, well, not like this one
exactly. This is a 3D printed one, but
this is what they look like if you're on
the road and you're looking for them.
Okay, I think you get it. You understand
exactly how serious this is. But, what
is a Flock camera? And others like it?
Well, they're basically a network of
cameras that are taking still shots of
your license plate, the make and model
of your car, location information, uh
any identifiable information that might
make a fingerprint of your car, like
dents, dings, roof racks, anything like
that, and they're putting that into a
database. Most of them are solar powered
and they upload immediately to the cloud
over cellular, so within moments,
seconds of tagging your vehicle, it's in
a database that is instantly searchable
by private organizations or law
enforcement around the world. You find
them commonly um in cities,
municipalities, things like that, but
also, don't forget, Home Depot, Lowe's,
Walmart, they can have them as well.
This is a private company and it allows
anyone to have a contract and anyone to
search.
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you how you can do it. Now, Flock
cameras, they log every single car that
passes. No crime required. No suspicion
needed. They're in over 5,000-plus
communities across the United States and
the network is capturing more than 20
billion license plate reads a month. 20
billion.
Now, one login and one search, up to
97,000 cameras and 6,800
networks all at once.
A police chief in Norfolk, Virginia,
actually bragged about building a
curtain of technology so that you can't
drive any real distance without hitting
one. Now, down here in the valley, the
police won't publicly list out where
they're placing these Flock cameras, and
the reason they gave us was that they
didn't want people to change their
driving habits. Well, of course we
would. Nobody wants to be recorded like
this.
The pitch is always the same.
This catches car thieves. This finds
missing children. But, nobody pitches
you on what happens when the login
belongs to somebody who isn't really
looking for either of those things.
The entire system is sold on the premise
that the people holding the login
credentials to this mass surveillance
network won't abuse them.
Tell that to the people in Milwaukee
when an officer used his access to track
a woman he was dating and her ex more
than 170 times over 2 months. Now, he
resigned hours, conveniently, just
before his court date.
The department needed someone to then
look into it, so they chose a detective,
22 years on the force.
That detective ran the audit.
Unbelievably, buried in the audit was
his own name. He had tracked a
completely different woman's plate 17
times, logging the reason as test and
training. This detective even planted a
physical GPS tracker under her car,
which she ended up finding later.
The detective they sent to catch the
abuse was actually committing crimes
himself. In Idaho, a sheriff ran his own
wife's plate over 700 times in 3 months.
Every search, again, logged as test. And
then conveniently he retired clean.
In Kansas, a police chief tracked his
ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend over
200 times before he conveniently stepped
down. And again in Georgia, just this
last month five officers in one
department were fired and then arrested
and one of them is facing 11 separate
counts. The Institute for Justice has
counted at least 21 of these cases since
2024. And of course, this will just be
what's reported. The rest of it, I
promise you, is covered up. And stick
around cuz I'm going to show you how
states are preparing to hide this
information from you instead of fixing
the problem. Now, you would think that
this is just a simple discipline
problem. You fire the bad ones and you
move on. But this goes past individual
officers with bad intentions. This is
about the system itself being
weaponized. Now, in my home state,
instead of protecting you and I from law
enforcement abuse, they went the
opposite direction. They built a new
system to hide the corruption.
Washington just passed the Driver
Privacy Act this March. Now, on paper,
it sounds like a win with shorter data
retention and locking out some of the
federal agencies, but read past that
headline. Buried inside the bill is a
provision that completely exempts
license plate reader data from public
records requests.
You can no longer FOIA this information
to see who got searched or why the
officer ran the plate.
The exact public audit trail that
exposed every single abuse case that I
just told you is now legally shielded
from you. While they were sealing that
door, they walked right through another
one. The original draft of the bill only
allowed cops to run searches for
felonies.
By the The it passed, cities had lobbied
to water it down to now include gross
misdemeanors, creating a much lower bar
and a massive expansion of that
surveillance net. Lawmakers took away
your ability to see who is tracking you
while giving police a wider net to track
more people. They then had the nerve to
call it the driver privacy act. That is
exactly what it looks like when the
agencies running the surveillance get to
write the rules on oversight. Now, go
ahead. Do a Google search on any recent
legislation for your country and your
state and let me know in the comments
how they're handling it. So, what about
security on these things? Must be pretty
bulletproof, right? Well, it gets worse
because at least 35 of these law
enforcement accounts have already had
their password stolen by hackers. The
company doesn't even require two-factor
login as of this video. The bare minimum
security that even your bank makes you
have isn't even required to access a
database of every place that every
person has been. Okay, fine. There's a
whole bunch of you that will say that
you're okay with all of this because at
least it's catching real criminals. But,
is it?
Oak Park, Illinois runs one of the only
public audits of its own system in the
entire country. Their own oversight
board came to a brutal conclusion that
there is no evidence that these cameras
have meaningfully solved a single local
crime since 2022. And about a third of
the stops that these cameras trigger end
with the driver being released on the
spot because of a wrong plate and it
being the wrong car. In Arkansas, a
couple was pulled over at gunpoint,
cuffed on the pavement while their
6-week-old child was left alone in the
car seat. The reason? A camera misread
their plate. The officer's own words
afterward, "Hey, I'm not going to say
that the technology's is perfect because
you know that that's just it. It's
modern technology. That was the apology.
Blame it on technology and just a shrug
for violating rights. All right. This is
what I told you at the top of the video.
There is a website called
haveibeenflocked.com
and I'll have that linked in the
description and here on the screen
probably. Now, you cannot access the
live cameras to track people yourself,
but police departments are required by
law to logs of every search that they
run. Now, when citizens file FOIA
requests for those audit logs, they have
been handing it over to the independent
privacy advocate website. You type in
your own plate and it will show you
whether your car has been pulled up in
any one of these searches. It shows you
who searched for it, when they searched
it, and what the reason is that they
gave. This is public data that already
exists about you and until this tool was
built, most people had no way to even
know how to ask for it. Now, as I
mentioned earlier, states like mine are
taking this to the extreme and just
making FOIA requests illegal.
Now, they're going to tell you that the
information is public and that you have
no right to privacy. But when you ask
for the information now that they have
on you, they're going to tell you that's
private and you don't have a right to
that data.
Now, because one of the ways to fight
back is filing FOIA requests and getting
that public information on you,
FLOCK and law enforcement agencies are
colluding. They're now working together
so that when you request that
information, you're now basically
getting obfuscated junk. You're getting
scrambled results, things that make
everything that you receive
unidentifiable,
making the data ultimately useless.
This isn't good.
Now, if you're interested in
contributing to the website, follow the
instructions that they have on how you
can file a FOIA request with your local
police and sheriff's department to
request that Flock data. Now, if you
aren't sure if you have Flock cameras in
your town,
and I'm pretty sure you do, you can go
over to maps.deflock.org
and I'll throw that up on the screen
right now. And it's a very simple
interface that allows you to just take a
look at a map, zoom in, and look at the
cameras that are available.
And they look like this. Well, kind of
like this.
Couple of different shapes, but if you
see something like this with a solar
panel above it,
that's a Flock camera. Now, because our
town doesn't list out where you can find
these cameras, all it took for us was to
just do a little drive around the
valley, and we were shocked at how many
there are. There's this one here, and
just a quarter of a mile down the road,
there's one on the opposite side. Now,
I'll have links in the description where
you can search up your town and your
city, and you can find cameras, and also
report cameras that you find. I think
you're going to be shocked at how many
there are.
This isn't all bad news. There is some
positives here. Dozens of municipalities
across the nation are canceling Flock
contracts for various reasons. Some
because of fraud, some because they are
protecting the rights of citizens, and
others because they're protecting the
rights of non-citizens. Whatever the
reason, canceling Flock contracts is the
right thing to do. Now, here are a few
of those examples.
Denver, Austin, and Eugene, Oregon
already canceled their Flock contracts.
They looked at the reality of mass
surveillance and forced the cameras out
of their cities. Mountain View,
California, it shut off all 30 cameras
after finding 250-plus unapproved
agencies had run nearly 600,000
searches over 12 months, including the
ATF, Air Force, and a GSA Inspector
General that had access that nobody
signed off on. Santa Cruz, California,
they They theirs after confirming
out-of-state agencies and ICE had
accessed local data. Now, Denver,
Colorado, they dropped 111 Flock cameras
for a smaller Axon network after the
city auditor refused to countersign the
contract over some type of sharing and
privacy risk. Dayton, Ohio, covered all
72 cameras in trash bags after an audit
found 7,100
plus searches for immigration
enforcement explicitly barred under the
city's own policy. And there are so many
more. In fact, the list is so big, it's
it's got to be its own entire videos
worth of content on those cancellations.
Every single time one of these cameras
goes up, the sell is exactly the same.
They tell you it's about protecting you
from the bad guys.
They tell you it's not about you.
Go check your plate. Then go to your
city council and ask how many of these
cameras are already up and who has the
login.
Then
demand that they take them down.
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