➡ A police officer, Corporal Mills, tried to enter a woman’s home without a warrant, claiming he was looking for her adult son. Meanwhile, in Beijing, surveillance cameras are everywhere, tracking citizens and issuing fines for minor infractions. A company called Flock has installed gunshot detectors that also function as microphones, raising privacy concerns. Lastly, a man in Colorado keeps getting pulled over because Flock’s surveillance cameras mistakenly identify him as having an active warrant.
➡ Flock Safety, a company that uses AI-powered cameras to scan license plates and track vehicles, is raising concerns about privacy and misuse. The cameras, installed across the U.S., are not only capturing license plates but also building ‘fingerprints’ of vehicles and their drivers. There have been instances of police officers using this technology to stalk individuals, leading to questions about privacy and abuse. Critics argue that the data collected by Flock, which is searchable by the police, is being harvested by a corporation that doesn’t answer to the public, and are calling for the cancellation of contracts with the company.

And I said, well, you’re gonna have to get a warrant if you want anything else. And I’m gonna have to ask you to leave. And he, that’s when he got mad. This is Corporal Charles Mills of the Cherokee Georgia Sheriff’s Office. Just nonchalantly walking up this woman’s front steps, about to barge into her home through her front door, knocking back her juvenile child without a warrant. So, why was Corporal Mills barging into this woman’s home and what was his claimed justification for doing so when he did not have a warrant? Well, it started a day or two earlier where Corporal Mills claims to have seen this guy on a motorcycle and he wanted to catch up with the guy and he wanted to pull him over.

He wanted to arrest him, but he never did. He didn’t know who he was. But this guy apparently really loves his authoritarian surveillance systems and he uses flock cameras which he apparently loves and uses often to get a bunch of photographs of this motorcycle which he believes is Natasha’s adult son who’s like 21 years old. Now, that adult son does not live at this home with Natasha. Corporal Mills is aware of this fact. So, Mills goes to her house and he wants to continue questioning the sun so he goes up and he rings the doorbell, he knocks on the door, there’s no answer.

She’s not home. We were out, I took the little kids to like jumping world, a trampoline park. We were at the trampoline park and my son asked for a ride home which was like a stop light down and so we grabbed him and we came home. And as they pull in, guess who’s waiting for them? It’s Corporal Mills and he’s actually blocking them from properly pulling into their driveway. This is my home and I have young kids here so I was just like you’re going to have to go away essentially unless you have a warrant.

So he got mad and in response it was I’m going to get a warrant to arrest your son which didn’t make much sense to me because why didn’t you just do that 10 minutes ago and arrest him at work? Why are you doing that at my house? But as soon as he opened the door and went in he told my kids that they were, everybody was detained, get out of the house. I just kept asking him do you have a warrant and I was calling 911 at the same time and about that time 911 answered and when I went to talk to the 911 operator he snatched me up and took my phone away and told me I was under arrest.

Big brother is watching. There are literally cameras everywhere in Beijing. We are outside the Hanyan station and I can count at least 20 on this corner. In fact, in Beijing they’ve added 1,500 cameras just this year alone. They see everything. There’s nobody jaywalking here because they could get a ticket right away. In fact, our driver parked illegally for two minutes and he got a message on his phone that he got a ticket for about $40 US because they saw it on the camera. Now there are real questions what the CCP’s goal is about citizen tracking and social scoring.

They say it’s to make everybody feel safe. These cameras are watching every minute. They’re everywhere. And while they’re watching us here in China, we hope you continue to watch special report from Beijing. I don’t think anybody realizes how big of a deal what Flock just did under our noses again. So you already know about the cameras and one could say this is arguably worse. They went to all the state governments and they said, we want to set up gunshot detectors and we want to use tax money to do so because it will make your citizens safer.

Most governments said yes. So they get them installed everywhere and they’re supposed to just detect gunshots. Well, a couple of days ago, they again push an over the air update. No new hardware installed. Same machines to turn every single one into a mic that’s using AI to pick up every fucking word you say on the street. And guess what the feature is called? It’s called detecting human voices in distress. And the only way to do that is to listen to every word that we’re saying at all times and process it with AI. And they’re going to sell that data to whomever wants to pay the most for it.

Everywhere and increased surveillance everywhere. There’s an organization called D Flock who sent me well known now, I guess, if you’re interested in this stuff, who take a fairly aggressive approach in terms of counting the number of cameras and having a Discord channel where they talk about potential activities to move against Flock and stop it expanding. What do you think of that organization and the way they go about their business? Yeah, so I mean, I think that’s really two groups of activists. You’ve got organizations like the ACLU and the EFF who take an above the board approach to fight for their point of view.

And thankfully, we live in a beautifully democratic, capitalistic country where we can fight in court. And I have a lot of respect for those groups because they have reasonable debates and we follow the law. And then unfortunately, there’s terroristic organizations like D Flock, whose primary motivation is chaos. They are closer to Antifa than they are anything else. And that I think is unfortunate because we don’t want chaos or I don’t want chaos. I like law and order like a society that has a bedrock of safety. So for those groups, I think it’s just disappointing that they haven’t chosen a more constructive mannerism to try to get what they want, which they have a right to have.

But that’s why we have a democratically elected process. We’re not forcing Flock on anyone. Elected officials know that as a community, you want to be safe. As a family, you want to be safe. And Flock is the best way to create a safe community. I’m not sure D Flock would agree with the terroristic label that you put on them. This is a Flock safety camera, a solar powered pole mounted system designed to capture six to 12 images of passing vehicles along with metadata like time, location and vehicle attributes. But the camera is only the edge of the system.

That data moves through encrypted cellular links into Flock OS, the central platform where events are stored, indexed and searched. From there, the software layer comes online. Tools like Flock Nova analyze patterns across location. The national LPR network enables authorized cross agency searches. Freeform allows natural language queries across massive data sets and Investigations Manager organizes timelines and case workflows. The hardware expands beyond cameras to mobile security trailers, acoustic detection sensors and drone systems like DFR and Aerodome can all feed into the same platform. What looks like a single roadside camera is actually one node inside a much larger software driven network connecting sensors, analytics and response tools across thousands of communities.

Tonight, we get a little glimpse into the dystopian future. A Coloradan keeps getting pulled over because Flock surveillance cameras tell police he has an active warrant. He doesn’t. But he can’t convince the surveillance network to leave him alone. Our Spencer Sawyer has that. Fiction over here, they zipped out of nowhere and immediately got behind me with the lights flashing. There was no crime committed. No, I don’t have a warrant. But Kyle Dozmann is getting used to sitting in his car. I don’t think this warrant has been on this car for very long. And answering questions.

I continually am getting pulled over. I can’t really use my truck in any fashion. Kyle made sure his dash cam was recording yesterday after Cherry Hills Village police officers pulled him over near the same area Saturday. Hello. We got you last week. Yeah, for the warrant. Oh, I was driving through here yesterday and I got pulled over again. It was actually by the same officer. You need my license? I remember you, man. OK. Cherry Hills Village police say the Gilpin County sheriff has a warrant out with Kyle’s plate, and it was put on a flock camera hot list.

Everywhere in the state, every time I pass a camera, they get alerts in their car that I’m in the area. The flock cameras did alert to his license plate being associated to a warrant. Cherry Hills Village police chief Jason Lyons says when anyone with a warrant passes one of their flock cameras, they get an alert. But that Kyle doesn’t actually have a warrant. Nobody should be stopped when there’s no legitimate law enforcement purpose for that. Kyle has called both the Gilpin County courts and sheriff’s office to get off the list, but they’ve told them he needs to know who the warrant is for, which nobody can tell it.

Yeah, all I know is I’m in the system now and there’s really no easy way to get out of the system once you’re in it. So he continues to drive around, fearing when he’s going to be stopped for questions again. I don’t know what this guy did to get a warrant. So I don’t really know what the police response is going to be. So we’re getting the A.I. data centers everywhere. Three thousand around the United States of America, probably more. You’ve got Palantir, Peter Thiel’s Palantir, whose buddies with J.D. Vance, all the software that’s going to control all of that information.

And then we’ve got devices, hardware devices everywhere. Our phones, the ring cameras at our house, the televisions. Now they’re building everything in our cars, devices everywhere. And then you have Flock and Falcon cameras that are being installed everywhere across the United States right now, like right here. This is a thousand in just this area of California, a thousand. And they’re going to double and triple that. So those cameras do this. I don’t have to worry about Flock safety cameras. Those are just license plate readers. There’s no reasonable expectation of privacy in public. Wrong, very wrong on both counts.

In fact, the Supreme Court has already had an opinion about privacy in public. John Roberts himself said, a person does not surrender all Fourth Amendment protection by venturing into the public sphere. To the contrary, what one seeks to preserve is private, even in an area accessible to the public, may be constitutionally protected. But Flock safety is a massively expanding network, 20 billion scans a month using ALPR, automated license plate reader technology. You’ve probably seen one, even if you didn’t notice it, but they’re not just getting license plates anymore. If you drive by a Flock camera and you don’t have a license plate or it’s covered up or you’re using a rental car, Flock is building fingerprints of vehicles.

So let’s say you are a guy with an amazing beard and glasses driving a Toyota. Well, that type of information can be logged and then police can search that using just simple language searches. So amazing man with great beard drives Toyota. They’re also tracking vehicles that travel next to and with each other frequently to identify sort of. Collusive behavior. They are also tracking vehicles that frequently travel by and close to each other. But Flock itself has also said that it is no longer just doing LPR. They’re moving. These are their words from LPR to person.

Of course, Flock also recently partnered with Ring. So police can use the Nova platform to search across all of these networks and Ring. And by the way, these are going up in HOA’s all over the country. The data gathered by Flock, those Flock cameras and HOA’s is then searchable by the police. And there are reasonable questions about, well, privacy and abuse. A Kansas City police chief used Flock 228 times to track his ex-girlfriend and her new partner. There are countless examples of police using Flock surveillance systems to track people engaging in First Amendment activities, what I believe to be a clear violation of the Constitution.

This purchase will fund 72 ALPR cameras of the 72, which will include 11 cameras for the resort area, which would be funded by the Anaheim Police Foundation. 20 cameras that will be placed throughout the city based on crime trends and the needs of the department and the community. Those will be funded by a BSCC organized retail theft grant. And the remaining 41 cameras will be placed throughout the Orange County operational area and will be funded with the Anaheim, Santa Ana urban area security initiative, also known as UACI from Homeland Security grant funding.

With that, we welcome any questions you may have. A Milwaukee cop just resigned after using Flock cameras to stalk a woman he was dating. He ran her plate 179 times in two months. According to the Institute for Justice, this is happening all over the country. They’ve documented at least 14 cases of officers using license plate readers to stalk romantic partners, exes, and in one case, a complete stranger, a Florida deputy spotted on a TV set and decided to pull over. A Kansas police chief ran his ex-girlfriend’s plate over 200 times. A Kentucky officer tracked an ex hundreds of times in two months.

Every single one of these searches was logged as an investigation. The Milwaukee cop only got caught because his victims looked themselves up on a public website called Have I Been Flocked? Police officer who used license plate reader cameras to track down a woman and wrongly accused her of theft will be disciplined. This story has been spreading online over the last month. Sergeant Jamie Milliman with the Columbine Valley Police Department showed up to a woman’s home and claimed he had video evidence proving she stole a package. Milliman used the Flock safety cameras to track her down.

Turns out the allegation was wrong. The woman ended up proving she wasn’t the thief, the thief in providing her own video evidence. The town administrator with Columbine Valley wrote that officer Milliman will be disciplined, but won’t elaborate beyond that. A federal judge in Norfolk has made the locations of more than 600 flock safety surveillance cameras across Hampton Roads public. The first time such a list has ever been released. Local cities and counties had previously denied requests for this information, citing Virginia’s open records, law and critical infrastructure protections. But now a federal lawsuit claims the city’s use of these cameras violates Fourth Amendment rights, which protects against unreasonable certain seizures.

The complaint, filed in 2024, seeks to stop Norfolk’s use of the Flock system and erase the data already collected. My name is Brett, and I’ve been a Corona resident in District 4 for 15 years. I’m here to introduce DeFlock Corona, a community coalition asking this council to cancel the city’s contract with Flock Safety and remove the cameras that have been deployed throughout our city. Our website is deflock-corona.org. I’m here because new Flock cameras were recently installed between my home and my daughter’s school. So now every time I make that drive, my family is being photographed and logged into a giant corporate database.

I want to be clear what these cameras actually are. And I say that with somebody with 20 years of experience in IT. I’ve served as the chief network architect for Fortune 500 companies. I’ve designed data centers. And today I work on cloud infrastructure for one of the largest loan origination companies in the country. I’m not speculating on how this technology work. I’ve read their patents and I know how it works. Flock advertises these cameras as simple license plate readers. Their own patents tell a different story. They’re AI powered surveillance machines that capture every passing vehicle in person and transmit that data to a private corporate cloud, making it queryable by a multitude of state and federal agencies.

The city of Corona does not control that database and Corona residents have no public record rights against a private company servers. Our daily movements are being harvested by a $7.5 billion corporation that only answers to venture capital investors, not to us. Flock did not reach that valuation on their per camera subscription fees. That math doesn’t add up. The city council should also understand who they’re doing business with. Flock CEO is asked whether the company had any federal contracts. He said, no, that was a lie. Public records revealed that Flock had been secretly running a pilot program, giving the US border patrol access to local police camera data without the knowledge of the cities that paid for the cameras.

Now consider who’s behind the company and where your data flows. Flock integrates directly with Palantir, a data fusion platform with a $30 million contract with ice. Peter Thiel, the founder of Palantir is also one of Flock’s primary investors. These are not separate companies with separate agendas. They’re connected actors that are building a connected infrastructure. Palantir’s own CEO stated publicly just this month that his technology is being used as a political instrument to design to reduce the political power of certain voters. And that’s the ecosystem that our Corona cameras are feeding into. We’re not anti-police at all.

We’re against mass surveillance of innocent residents by a company with a documented record of deception built by investors with a stated political agenda. We’re asking the city council to start auditing the queries made against Flock’s database to disclose any data sharing agreements and to take a vote to cancel the Flock safety contract. For more information, visit www.flock.com
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