Benjamin Franklin famously noted that “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety,” but apparently too few of us were paying attention in history and civics class—we’re allowing the government to use Flock Safety to do what it’s not constitutionally-permitted to do.
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It’s no exaggeration to say that Flock systems are going up everywhere. At first, the technology was sold as a way to monitor car traffic and identify vehicles that law enforcement may wish to identify. Then the cameras started showing up on bike paths, outside sporting goods stores that sell firearms and pointed right at the door instead of surveilling the parking lot, and apparently, in little girls’ gymnastics classes.
Jason Hunyar describes himself as “just a dad who is filing open records requests” in an effort to “fight this $8.4B mass surveillance corporation [Flock],” but he runs an incredibly informative and evidence-rich Substack, and a few months back in April of this year, he reported that last September (2025), Flock Safety’s VP, a man named Bob Carter, used Hunyar’s local police department’s Flock system (in Dunwoody, Georgia) to log on and watch a little girls’ gymnastics class:
Bob Carter … on September 30th, 2025, logged onto the Dunwoody Police Department Flock system and looked at one singular camera, which happened to be in the little girl’s gymnastics room of a private business.
But there’s been a recent development:
After I revealed Mr. Carter’s behavior, he was wiped completely clean from the Flock system. On April 15th I received a new user export. This one was completely devoid of Mr. Carter’s name, not even as an inactive user.
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These two event logs, which I received through open records, cover the period in between the user exports. In these event logs, you can see Flock employee Martin Howley deleting 9 users from the system, one of which being his own alternate account, yet they contain no record of Bob Carter being deleted or removed from the system.
Okay, let’s set aside for a moment that some adult male (presumably middle-aged or older) is accessing Flock cameras to watch little girls in leotards stretch and tumble around in a gym, but Flock’s own website claims that, “Every user action and search reason is recorded in an indefinitely available audit trail,” a feature the company describes as “immutable accountability.”
Evidently, that was a lie.
Things of course get much worse so if interested in the details, I encourage you to read Hunyar’s blog, as well as follow him for future updates.
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