90,000 Flock cameras have quietly gone up in the US: What they track and how to check your city

**Executive summary:** Flock Safety's networked vehicle-tracking cameras capture still images and derived vehicle metadata (license plates, make/model, color, direction, etc.) and send them to a centralized, searchable cloud service; the article highlights privacy and security concerns around AI-enabled searches, centralized cloud storage, access/sharing policies, false alerts that can lead to wrongful police actions, and grassroots pushback demanding transparency and regulation.