Rep. Thomas Massie Announces Federal Bill to Defund Flock Surveillance Cameras – Don't Flock
www.dontflock.com25 July 2026. Representative Thomas Massie announced that he will introduce a federal bill to withhold federal money from municipalities and police departments that deploy Flock-style automated license plate reader
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When the worst person you know has a good idea…
He’s actually had a few other good ideas. He put forth a bill to designate AIPAC as a foreign agency so they couldn’t lobby. This guy is better than all the other Republicans and at least half the dems.
If it does get far enough to be introduced and to actual vote. I am guessing there will be a massive push by Flock to flood news outlets and lobbyists to how “successfully bad guys were caught” or otherwise “prevented.” Probably lock-in on any instance(s) involving children being protected/found. With any and all misleading stats downplaying the actual levels of spying on literally everyone not doing anything illegal (or that children are being scanned and added to those growing databases). And the fucked up cases of false positives that drag those people into court, job losses from being accused/arrested, and financial losses from the first two.
Giving up freedom for security…yadda yadda
Hard counter those efforts with detailed Info on high ranking officials from flock data through FOIA. Educate themasses on what’s is being watched and how all data is combined into a detailed profile
I do not believe municipalities are obligated to respond to FOIA requests. Those are federal, or at least I though so.
My city lets you do this…maybe its not common. But here i can request all kinds of info from garbage collection right up to all info on Flock installations.
Flock around and find out
This will never be passed because most of the people benefitting from Flock are the ones who will vote on the bill.