Who's Watching Springdale?

10/03/2026

While City of Springdale, AR - Mayor's Office ponders "How much information [opponents to Flock Safety] actually have" and the Chief of Springdale Police Department stands firm on his position that Flock Safety cameras do not represent a constitutional infringement, a Federal Judge in Oklahoma has disagreed.

A federal judge in Oklahoma has ruled that a police officer violated a woman’s Fourth Amendment rights when he searched a month of her travel history through Flock’s automated license plate reader network after he began following her because her SUV had a California plate.U.S. District Judge Sar...

09/18/2026

The more you know.

09/17/2026

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Did you know home depot and lowes has license plate reading AI cameras in the parking lots to help catch thieves? These ALPR cameras are made by flock.

They are facing backlash now after many anti flock people found out about it. Many said they will boycott the retailers if they dont remove them

Who knows what they do with the datas but some people are really worried and mad about it being mis used.

09/16/2026

We're never more than one election cycle away from an administration that will use technology in ways you didn't expect..

This meme says it all.

Flock cameras and other license plate systems do help police after a crime. Stolen cars get recovered. Hit-and-run drivers get identified. Detectives get a lead they would not have had otherwise. That part is true.

The other part is also true. A camera on every pole that logs every plate, every trip to church, every visit to a clinic, every drive past a gun shop is Big Brother.

Free people should not want that much of their life sitting in a searchable government file.

Cell phones already do a version of the same thing. So do Ring cameras pointed at the sidewalk when you walk down the street. I have a problem with all of it. I also understand why people feel safer with them.

That said, the warning hits home.

Not long ago the government treated churchgoers like criminals.

On Easter Sunday 2020, Kentucky State Police recorded the license plates of worshipers at Maryville Baptist Church and left 14-day quarantine notices on their windshields.

Governor Beshear had ordered police to record the plates of anyone attending a service. Some parishioners covered their plates. Troopers took VIN numbers instead.

Liquor stores were essential. Big box stores were essential. Houses of worship were wrapped in police tape and marked closed by government order.

If Flock cameras had been live in 2020, they would not have been a neutral crime tool. They would have been a lockdown enforcement tool. Every plate in a church lot on Sunday morning. Every family that took a walk when the governor said stay home. Every pastor who refused to lock the doors.

The same officials who now say only criminals fear the cameras were ready, not long ago, to treat worship itself as a crime.

The machine does not stay pointed at the thief. It stays pointed at whoever the government has decided is the problem that week.

If your town had Flock cameras in March 2020 do you think they would have been used to enforce the lockdown?

09/15/2026

09/05/2026

How quickly we forget.

Even if the current administration wouldn't use cameras in this manner, we're never more than one election cycle away from an administration that would.

Get Flock out of Springdale.

09/05/2026

7 days is Flock's new "default" setting for data storage. Sounds like 30 days is more of a suggestion if Flock is selling 5 year data history back to cities who have already spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on hardware and software.

Oh...and a third party private entity STILL has access to your movements in Springdale thanks to your City Council.

If the city was a guest on Maury it would be running back stage wailing.

09/02/2026

The more you know...

09/02/2026

Sounds similar to something we heard in a city council meeting recently.