Flock Cameras Won. It's Officially Over.

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. If you're a fan of the channel, stick around all the way to the end because we have a giveaway and it's for one of these. This is a Bluetti hands-free 2 battery backpack. I'm not kidding. It's a monster backpack with a huge battery bank in it uh that makes you ultimately independent, um which is what we talk about a lot on the channel. So, anyway, stick around to the end and I'll tell 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. To get your hands on this hands-free two-battery backpack from Bluetti, you're going to want to head over to our community forum to the giveaways channel, and that's at community.loyalmoses.com, and I'll have links in the description. Now, there's also extra ways to get extra entries, like following me on X, following me on Twitch, and subscribing to our YouTube channel, and other things like that. So, make sure you do it all. And good luck.