My Guaranteed Steps to Tell if a New Device Is a Flock Camera

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As I’ve covered Flock Safety’s AI camera and license plate tracking technology, including cities choosing to cancel their surveillance contracts while others adopt even more, I’ve come across a common problem. Many people don’t actually know what a Flock camera looks like.

That’s one reason I’m not the biggest fan of crowdsourced Flock-spotting apps like DeFlock, which make it a bit too easy to give conflicting information about what people think is a Flock camera. This led to so much confusion in my own city that the city council had to put out a bulletin explaining that local government no longer uses Flock cameras, and what people are seeing probably aren’t Flock cams in the first place.

So, how do you know if you’re seeing a mounted Flock camera, or a traditional traffic cam, or a competitor camera, or just a new cam from a...

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