25 July 2026. Representative Thomas Massie announced that he will introduce a federal bill to withhold federal money from municipalities and police departments that deploy Flock-style automated license plate reader cameras. The announcement came in a post on X at 2:45 PM. If introduced as described, this would be the first federal attempt to attach
That would be amazing, but I can’t even consider there’s a chance that it’s anything more than performative. Maybe he genuinely wants that to happen, since he does seem to be one of the few US politicians actually against raping kids, but there’s no way flock doesn’t own a lot of the other politicians and have financial ties and data sharing contracts with bigger companies who own the rest of them.