Every time you drive through town, a private surveillance company logs it and the data goes into a nationwide trackingnetwork. You did not get to vote for this.
Parker is inside Douglas County, which operates around 36 Flock Safety cameras across its jurisdiction. Parker Police also has operational access to the Flock network — the company cites Parker cases in its own marketing.
Flock cameras photograph every passing vehicle, read the license plate, and record make, model, color, bumper stickers, and roof racks. That data is stored and searchable. Your movements over weeks and months can be reconstructed from it.
Police say this catches criminals. Sometimes it does. Here's what else it does.
In September 2025, a Columbine Valley police sergeant knocked on the door of a Denver woman named Chrisanna Elser. He had a summons in hand for a $25 package theft in neighboring Bow Mar. His evidence: Flock cameras showed her Rivian had driven through town that day.
"You know we have cameras in that town. You can't get a breath of fresh air in or out of that place without us knowing, correct?" — Sgt. Jamie Milliman, Columbine Valley PD, recorded on Elser's doorbell camera
Elser hadn't stolen anything. When she asked to see the theft video, he refused — she could see it in court. When she offered footage from her own vehicle's cameras to prove where she was, he told her to bring it to the judge.
She had to prove her own innocence using her truck's onboard cameras and phone app history. The summons was voided three weeks later. The sergeant was reprimanded.
She was lucky. Her vehicle happened to record where she was. Would your car be able to exonerate you? Would you have a defense?
Sources: The Colorado Sun, CBS Colorado, 9News
In April 2026, open-records requests in Dunwoody, Georgia revealed something Flock hadn't told any of its customer cities: Flock employees were logging into municipal camera systems from other states and viewing live feeds.
Not just license plate cameras. Interior cameras at the Marcus Jewish Community Center — a facility with a large youth program.
According to the city's own audit logs, a Flock Vice President viewed the Dunwoody system 185 times. On September 30, 2025, he viewed exactly one camera: the children's gymnastics room. A Flock sales employee based in North Carolina viewed the JCC's pool camera for hours at a stretch.
Dunwoody's mayor acknowledged it publicly. Flock apologized and called it "demonstration purposes." When residents asked for the full audit logs to see the real scope, the city told them it would cost over $5.4 million to fulfill the records request.
Parker uses the same system. The same architecture. The same company.
Sources: Rough Draft Atlanta, Dunwoody audit log analysis (event log D048397-031926), WABE Atlanta (NPR)
In Kansas, a police chief used Flock cameras 228 times to track his ex-girlfriend and her new partner. No investigation. No warrant. Just access.
In August 2025, Flock admitted it had been quietly running a pilot program giving U.S. Customs and Border Protection the ability to request access to local police cameras. 25 Colorado law enforcement agencies agreed to share data with CBP through this pilot. Flock will not say which 25. Douglas County — which polices Parker — refused to disclose its data-sharing partners when CBS Colorado filed an open records request in 2025.
In December 2025, security researchers found dozens of Flock cameras streaming live footage and 30 days of recorded video to the open internet with no password required. Anyone could watch. Anyone could delete footage.
Sources: 9News, CBS Colorado, Stop Flock (citations to 404 Media and Local12)
An independent project called DeFlock has crowdsourced the locations of over 1,000 Flock cameras across Colorado. Check where they are near you.
The people in this neighborhood can't even leave without being tracked, for example.
