The company said it has helped solve cases involving stolen vehicles, burglaries, assaults, missing persons and other \u201cserious crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIn 2025, Flock technology supported more than 1 million criminal investigations and public safety incidents, assisted in an estimated 20% of solved cases in jurisdictions where it was deployed, and helped locate more than 10,000 missing people,\u201d a Flock spokesperson wrote in a prepared statement.<\/p>\n
You can learn more about Flock\u2019s procedures on its website<\/a>.<\/p>\n For Gunn, 77, his protests against Flock originated after the St. Petersburg resident noticed a camera lying on the ground.<\/p>\n \u201cSomebody had cut it down, and I didn\u2019t know what it was,\u201d he told WUSF\u2019s Florida Matters Live & Local<\/a> Wednesday.<\/p>\n He later saw that another LTR was installed, so he studied the technology and determined: \u201cI don\u2019t like this.\u201d<\/p>\n Gunn then got a pole from his pool, stuck a broomstick on the end the extend it and put a sign on it reading: \u201cDown with the Flock.\u201d<\/p>\n He looked around to see which cameras were accessible so as not to block sidewalks and to have a little bit of shade in the Florida heat.<\/p>\n \u201cAt my age, it burns me out real quick,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Then he does a mini sit-in of sorts, getting out a lawn chair and placing his sign in front of the camera to block the lens as cars pass.<\/p>\n And so he became officially known as the \u201cFlock Blocker.\u201d<\/p>\n WUSF photo by Tyler Knight.<\/p>\n Overall, Gunn said he\u2019s doing the protests to bring attention to what the camera is doing and how he doesn\u2019t like it following him.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m not a lawbreaker. Well, I may speed every now and then, but it\u2019s by accident. But I don\u2019t want them doing it,\u201d he told host Matthew Peddie. \u201cI\u2019m free, white and 21. Don\u2019t be following me. I feel it\u2019s against my Fourth Amendment rights. I feel it\u2019s a crime.\u201d<\/p>\n Flock disagreed LTRs violate the Fourth Amendment, writing that more than 40 courts across the country have determined they \u201ccannot track the whole of an individual\u2019s movements.\u201d<\/p>\n Controversy over the cameras<\/p>\n Surveillance in America has continued to evolve with technology. The issue some see with tools like Flock cameras is \u201cthey are interconnected,\u201d said Matthew Guariglia, a senior policy analyst with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit formed to defend civil liberties and privacy.<\/p>\n \u201cSo by driving past 10 cameras, 15 cameras on your route to work, they could essentially collect all that data in a centralized way and track you as you go about your day,\u201d Guariglia said.<\/p>\n Problems can then come because the legal system is set up where you need \u201cindividualized suspicion,\u201d he added. Meaning, police suspect you of committing a crime.<\/p>\n The traditional route is they then go out and get a warrant signed by a judge saying there\u2019s evidence you did something illegal, and then they collect information about you, he said.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Carl-Gunn-Flock-camera-Tyler-Knight-WUSF-300x239.jpg\")
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