I walked Santa Rosa blocks counting Flock cameras. Stopped at 400t. Nobody held a town hall.

I was born in Santa Rosa and learned to ride a bike on the streets they're now filming.

So when these Flock cameras started showing up on poles - not traffic lights, not store security - I felt it in my gut first.

That quiet wrongness of something familiar becoming strange.
I used deflock.org to map what I was seeing, then I drove and walked to verify it myself.

400+ Flock license plate readers in Santa Rosa alone. Real-time hotlist matching.
Private contractor networks feeding into county fusion centers. In some neighborhoods, you're on camera every 40 feet.

Not ATMs. Not traffic cams. Federal grant-funded "smart city" nodes installed while we were sleeping, working, buying groceries.

Nobody held a town hall. Nobody sent a mailer. They just bolted them up.

I'm not an analyst. I'm just someone who pays attention. Someone who knows what it feels like to realize your neighborhood became a data farm while you were picking up dinner.

If you want to check the density in your own area, the tools are public. I'm happy to walk anyone through how I did it.

Let them watch. Don’t let them hide.

Posted Jul 10, 2026, 7:23 PM UTC

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