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Flock Safety: The Surveillance Network in Your Neighborhood

Off Air with Attorney Ron Chapman · Ronald W. Chapman II · April 16, 2026

A federal defense attorney's analysis of Flock's ALPR network through the lens of Carpenter v. United States and United States v. Jones, arguing the aggregation of 90,000 cameras scanning 20 billion vehicles monthly conflicts with settled Supreme Court precedent on long-term tracking. Chapman warns that funneling this dataset through aggregators like Palantir builds the architecture of mass societal control rather than public safety.

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