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Jamie retweeted
Today in @PostOpinions, @Rafa_Mangual and I lay out the case for keeping the ALPRs up.
Flock cameras are a useful tool for saving lives. Legitimate concerns should be addressed through regulation—not bans.
Read the whole piece here: washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
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Thanks to @SandraSmithFox and @johnrobertsFox for having me on @FoxNews’s @AmericaRpts to react to the Senate Judiciary hearing on Flock cameras. You can catch the replay here 👇🏽
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"When I talk to people on X ... Who say to me: 'the cameras are useless, we've got to tear them all down, anyone who vandalizes a camera is a hero, ha, look at these dumb Flock guys!'
Take your memes, and show them to the mom whose kid got recovered because of Flock."
Me on @DanCrenshawTX's podcast:
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The prevailing view of so much of the young left in America is that we’re the worst country ever, so if someone attacks us, they can’t be all bad.
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The ignorance surrounding Flock is staggering.
Flock is not “mass surveillance.” Police are not sitting somewhere watching you on a live feed.
Yes, the technology captures more than just license plates, including other identifying characteristics of a vehicle. But that’s information already displayed in public on vehicles being driven on public roads.
And guess what? A cop could stand on the side of the road and manually log the same information. Completely legal.
What Flock does is give police a tool to quickly identify vehicles tied to crimes, including criminals who commit an offense in one jurisdiction and flee into another. Or quickly locate a missing or abducted child.
Police search the system as part of an investigation. No warrant is required because they are not searching your home, your phone, or any other private property. It’s the same reason an officer can run your plate from his patrol car without first getting a warrant.Your car is on a public road. Your plate is publicly displayed.
Can the technology be abused? Of course. Any technology can be abused. And when misuse is uncovered and punished, that’s evidence the safeguards are working, not proof the entire system should be dismantled.
What Flock is NOT doing is photographing your face, vacuuming up your data, or figuring out which naughty website you visited last night.
You gave up that privacy a long time ago with your own internet use.
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It’s hard for me to understand why people would oppose data centers and flock cameras unless they are in favor of the CCP securing AI and technological dominance over America and unless they want criminals to get away with crimes.
There are so many stories like the one below about how Flock cameras have helped solve crimes and bring kidnapping victims home alive. 👇🏻
I’ve been watching this debate over flock cameras with an open mind. I conclude the cameras are important law enforcement tools for tracking vehicles, illegal alien crossings and movements, etc. If there are abuses of the kind re improper surveillance, then local and state officials should build in protections and penalties. Blanket banning is, again, mostly an ideologically-based overreaction, as with data centers.
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One of the strongest law enforcement leaders in the country, IMO
This is an incredible video from Polk County (FL) Sheriff Grady Judd on Flock cameras. It's long but it's a must-watch.
"The license plate readers, known as 'Flock,' is the single best tool to keep people safe and to find those that have run away from or driven away because of Alzheimer's or dementia."
"We don't need to do away with the best tool to keep you safe. But what we need is the guardrails that the professional agencies have to include us inculcated in state law. Not just about the license plate readers known as flock, not just about the toll cameras, not just about the red light cameras, not just about the speed cameras in the school zones, not just about the cameras on the school buses, but all of the technology. We need to have robust rules that ensure your privacy, ensure an auditing process, and ensure an accountability process."
"There are those that are concerned, 'Well, they know where I'm going.' Well, let's make sure we have this all put together. There are license plate readers that read your tag number when you're on the toll road. It knows where you're going. There's red light cameras that read your tag number. They know where you're going. There's school speed cameras that read your tag number. They know where you're going."
"The body cameras record your face. The body cameras comes into your private business. But not one word about them. And they invade your privacy every day and every time there's a police officer there. Not one word about the cameras on the patrol cars that also have license plate readers."
"There's cameras on school buses that read your tag number when you stopped past school buses. They know where you're going. So the bottom line is we've picked out flock, this one series of cameras that's the least invasive of all of them."
"I'm never going to apologize for saving lives and solving crime."
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This is an incredible video from Polk County (FL) Sheriff Grady Judd on Flock cameras. It's long but it's a must-watch.
"The license plate readers, known as 'Flock,' is the single best tool to keep people safe and to find those that have run away from or driven away because of Alzheimer's or dementia."
"We don't need to do away with the best tool to keep you safe. But what we need is the guardrails that the professional agencies have to include us inculcated in state law. Not just about the license plate readers known as flock, not just about the toll cameras, not just about the red light cameras, not just about the speed cameras in the school zones, not just about the cameras on the school buses, but all of the technology. We need to have robust rules that ensure your privacy, ensure an auditing process, and ensure an accountability process."
"There are those that are concerned, 'Well, they know where I'm going.' Well, let's make sure we have this all put together. There are license plate readers that read your tag number when you're on the toll road. It knows where you're going. There's red light cameras that read your tag number. They know where you're going. There's school speed cameras that read your tag number. They know where you're going."
"The body cameras record your face. The body cameras comes into your private business. But not one word about them. And they invade your privacy every day and every time there's a police officer there. Not one word about the cameras on the patrol cars that also have license plate readers."
"There's cameras on school buses that read your tag number when you stopped past school buses. They know where you're going. So the bottom line is we've picked out flock, this one series of cameras that's the least invasive of all of them."
"I'm never going to apologize for saving lives and solving crime."
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New on @CityJournal's substack: seriously, stop freaking out about Flock.
substacktools.com/sharex/fgn…
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After San Francisco adopted Flock cameras, crime dropped considerably.
Yet people on here claim that the technology won't be used to stop criminals – when it quite literally is being used for that purpose, reasonable concerns about abuse, privacy, etc. aside.
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You say you can’t opt out of Flock, but you can opt out of the mass surveillance device you carry everywhere in your pocket.
But have you opted out? Do you intend to opt out?
You don’t. Even if you turn location services off, your phone is still trackable. The technology can still be abused, it can still be hacked, your data can, and has been leaked.
You don’t dispose of your phone, you continue using a computer, you bank online, you allow a watch to track your health information, you may even have an AirTag in your wallet. You still use credit cards, your car may even track your location. You’re on social media as you read this.
You say you *can* opt out, and that’s true, if you choose to live in the Stone Age. None of you actually do it.
It’s selective outrage.
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THIS is the take.
🚨 Lara Trump on Flock license plate readers: "If you look at these cameras, what they've been able to do, solve more than one million cases last year alone. They've located over 10,000 missing people. These are kids, kidnapping victims, human trafficking victims, missing persons. They helped track down the Brown University shooter. They helped track down Ryan Ruth, who tried to assassinate the president. I see the value. On the other side of that, I think, Molly, that whenever you have people misusing them, like the allegations of a former police chief spying on his ex-girlfriend or whatever it is, those people should be held to such a high standard. There have to be severe punishments...
As a mom, I would love to know that if I, God forbid, ever lost my child, there would be an ability to track them down with these cameras."
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Flock Cameras are good. The online backlash is insanely dumb. It's possible to minimize the privacy risks while getting the very real safety gains that come from license plate readers and other cameras.
My latest in @TheAtlantic breaks it all down:
theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…
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Flock news roundup:
Lara Trump comes out strongly in favor of Flock for helping find missing children and tracking down criminals.
A Georgia man took a young child and threatened to kill them both. Flock found the SUV and police rescued child before he was harmed.
A California man who destroyed Flock camera was caught with indecent videos of underage children.
A Tennessee man on trial for raping a child skipped court and fled the state. Flock cameras tracked him down and he’s now facing up to 60 years.
Links below.
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🚨 Lara Trump on Flock license plate readers: "If you look at these cameras, what they've been able to do, solve more than one million cases last year alone. They've located over 10,000 missing people. These are kids, kidnapping victims, human trafficking victims, missing persons. They helped track down the Brown University shooter. They helped track down Ryan Ruth, who tried to assassinate the president. I see the value. On the other side of that, I think, Molly, that whenever you have people misusing them, like the allegations of a former police chief spying on his ex-girlfriend or whatever it is, those people should be held to such a high standard. There have to be severe punishments...
As a mom, I would love to know that if I, God forbid, ever lost my child, there would be an ability to track them down with these cameras."
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Lots of people whose lives revolve primarily around sports betting and guzzling beers watching the NFL on Sunday freaking out about how Flock cameras are an "invasion of privacy" that will lead to their "political persecution."
The "deep state" doesn't care about you, actually, and if you were important enough to the point where they did then they already have ways to spy on you without needing public cameras.
Meanwhile this technology has singlehandedly led to record-low crime rates through massively streamlining routine police investigations. Like data centers, this issue is a major IQ test, and the chuds are failing badly.
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It’s undeniable that flock is extremely effective at solving crime.
The sudden obsession with hating seems extremely inorganic.
Flock cameras used to track down man suspected of killing five in Oregon kiro7.com/news/local/flock-c…
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Flock cameras remind me of Stop & Frisk rules back in Bloomberg NYC.
The law-abiding citizens in the Harlem neighborhoods loved it, because it stopped the drug dealers and murderers.
The people against it were people in safe neighborhoods and the drug dealers and murderers.
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This is an unspoken side effect of Flock audits catching bad cops. If they were abusing the Flock database, they were likely abusing other police technology, and/or violating other policies/laws.
