Members of the West Virginia Freedom Caucus are pushing to ban Flock Safety's AI-powered surveillance cameras statewide, arguing the automated licence plate readers breach citizens' Fourth Amendment right to privacy. The move reflects a growing backlash among conservative lawmakers in southern and Republican-led states against the spread of Flock's camera network, which they liken to the mass-surveillance vision of George Orwell's "1984".

The Freedom Caucus said it "strongly opposes the unchecked expansion of automated surveillance technologies, including Flock Safety camera systems, automated license plate readers (ALPRs), AI-powered" tracking tools, framing the systems as a threat to civil liberties despite their use by police for public safety purposes such as tracking stolen vehicles and suspects. The controversy taps into a wider national debate, highlighted by commentary from a former FBI special agent, over whether such technology should be treated as a legitimate crime-fighting tool or as unchecked government surveillance of ordinary citizens.