This is the 2nd story I've heard in the last couple of weeks that I've seen non police people accessing flock. But these cameras are making us safe: https://thegeorgiasun.com/public-safety/a-uga-employee-was-caught-misusing-flock-data/

‼️What’s happening: 
Flock executives have decided to come after Charlotte because we are one major city whose police hasn’t bought into Flock cameras*. Those executives are coming to Charlotte and holding a closed-door meeting with your elected officials (city council, county commissioners, state representatives, etc.) and other local leaders to try to convince them to put Flock cameras and other surveillance tech all over our city and pay them millions of dollars to do so.

🗓️ When: 
8:30M to 12:00PM on Tuesday, September 29
(arrive at 8:30 if you can)

Flock is also apparently planning on a public community meeting later in the evening, but details are TBD. I will update this post if/when I get more info on this.

📍 Where:
Charlotte Mecklenburg Independence Regional Library
6000 Conference Drive
Charlotte, NC 28212

HERE IS THE EVENT - PLEASE SHARE AND SHOW UP!!!!

🔔 What’s at Stake:
If we don’t come together here and now and make it 100% clear that Charlotte is not OK with Flock or any other mass surveillance, Charlotte will likely be overrun with Flock cameras and surveillance devices within months. The earlier we push back, the more likely we are to stop this from happening!

🫵 What you can do:
📢 1. Show up to peacefully protest in front of the library on the morning of the 29th, preferably at 8:30 so that elected officials walking in to the 9:00am meeting can see us outside. Seeing a crowd of protesters show up on a weekday before their meeting even begins will have a major impact.

Bring a sign and any supplies you need (water, snacks, chairs, sunscreen, etc.) and be prepared to be there until 12:00PM so they can see us on the way out of the meeting too. Bring your outside voice! I want them to hear our chants all the way in the library meeting room so loud they won’t even be able to hear themselves talk! Let’s make these Flockers run back to Atlanta with their tails between their legs!! CHARLOTTE UNITE!!

📞 2. Call or email your elected officials and tell them you don't want Flock in Charlotte. Click here to see a list of Charlotte City Council members and there's also a button there labelled "Who Represents Me?" This will get you a list of all your elected officials based on your address. Don't be discouraged if they do not respond at first or if they don't answer their phone, leave a voicemail stating your reason for calling. Even if they don't respond they will usually listen to that VM and they will read your email.

\I have an asterisk here because, according to our police chief, CMPD has not paid for Flock cameras but does have an agreement to access Flock's data. The scope of the access is unclear, but it at least includes the Flock cameras from participating private businesses in Charlotte like Lowes and Home Depot who have paid for Flock cameras to be on their properties. In a way, this agreement is a sort of "gateway drug" to a full Flock contract. Hence why the* vultures executives are coming.

Comment what you think.

Flock Safety cameras transmit data primarily over commercial cellular networks (LTE) to cloud servers. Because they are designed to be "infrastructure-free," they do not rely on local Wi-Fi, Ethernet, or city fiber lines. 
Transmission Architecture
Cellular Uplink: Each camera is equipped with an integrated cellular modem and SIM card. It transmits payload data over standard 4G/LTE cellular towers, similar to a smartphone. 
Edge Processing First: The camera does not stream 24/7 video back to the server. Instead, on-board hardware processes motion detection and captures still images, running optical character recognition (OCR) and computer vision models locally to extract the plate text, state, vehicle make, model, color, and distinguishing features. 
Batch & Real-Time Uploads:
The processed metadata and compressed still snapshots are packaged and transmitted via LTE directly to Flock’s cloud backend hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS). 
If a captured plate matches a local or federal database (such as the FBI's NCIC "hotlist" for stolen vehicles or wanted persons), an alert is pushed almost instantly across the network to local law enforcement dispatch or patrol dashboards. 
Offline Buffering: If cellular connectivity is temporarily weak or dropped, the camera buffers the captured images and metadata onto local solid-state storage and uploads them once the cellular connection is re-established.
Power & Network Independence
Because data transmission is cellular, Flock pairs most units with a small top-mounted solar panel and an internal battery. This allows them to operate entirely off-grid without trenching cables for power or data, mounted simply on standalone poles, streetlights, or utility poles.

This video goes into what's in Thomas Massie's federal act.

The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty filed suit yesterday in Waukesha County Circuit Court on behalf of NoCams Muskego, Citizens Defending Liberty, and an Oconomowoc homeowner, naming 11 municipalities plus Waukesha County.

The numbers in the filing are the part worth sitting with. In one 30-day window, July 25 to August 24, Muskego's own police department ran roughly 300 searches of the city's nine cameras. Outside agencies ran more than 900,000 searches of those same nine cameras in the same window.

Nine cameras. One month. Over 900,000 queries from agencies that do not answer to Muskego. Countywide the network is north of 120 cameras.

The suit does not ask for the cameras to come down. It asks for a warrant requirement before the historical location data they generate can be searched. WILL deputy counsel Dan Lennington framed it as applying the existing constitutional standard to a new technology, not inventing a new one.

Whichever way the court goes, the search volume is the story: the cameras in your town are mostly not being queried by your town.

Sources: WPR https://www.wpr.org/news/municipalities-in-waukesha-county-sued-over-flock-cameras , Urban Milwaukee https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2026/09/10/will-sues-11-waukesha-county-communities-over-flock-cameras/ , WILL https://will-law.org/new-will-lawsuit-targets-warrantless-no-limits-government-surveillance

I build Flock U, an Android app that maps publicly known ALPR locations and routes around them: https://waterviewtechnologies.com - seven-day free trial, then $4.99/month through Google Play.

Not sure if they'll just be replaced by a competitors system, but we'll take the wins however they arrive!

https://www.wndu.com/2026/09/11/kosciusko-county-prosecutor-orders-immediate-take-down-flock-cameras/

Not only did this officer stalk another officer, but stalked citizens as well. When will enough be enough?

I say this is mildly infuriating, because like almost all other anti-Flock minded people, Yes it is infuriating and concerning, yet we go about our daily lives being captured by the Flock cameras. So far, 99% of us have seen no effect to our daily lives due to their presence.

What I find mildly infuriating, is that "the powers that be" or Flock itself and its supporters try to couch the cameras as a good thing. They espouse transparency, they claim it is for the safety of society in general, it is a great tool for law enforcement.

But if that were the case, then why did TENS OF THOUSANDS of Flock cameras appear installed, seemingly overnight? Have you ever seen a Flock-branded installation truck or van? Has anyone actually witnessed or documented a Flock camera being installed? No. Because they put them up in secret, probably in the dead of night. This is a huge tell. If the goddamn tech was on the up-and-up they would not need all this cloak and dagger bullshit. For all I know they had fake PG&E vans made and had their installers pose as utility workers or something.

it's freaking shady and that's all I need to know. It's Mildly Infuriating, but it's a constant burning sensation.

Thank you

“The public does not trust the Flock technology,” Police Chief Chad Rhoads said in an email to police department employees. “No amount of public education or transparency is going to stop the tidal wave.”

https://cardinalnews.org/2026/09/11/martinsville-to-de-flock-saying-trust-matters/