TRAPCAM™: The First Surveillance Camera That Auto-Deletes Footage When It Detects a Cop
- Boof du Jour
- Aug 13
- 4 min read
When Ring quietly updated its policy to allow law enforcement access to camera footage without a warrant, most Americans didn’t flinch. After all, if you’ve got nothing to hide, what’s the problem?
But in the cannabis industry—where operators are already one typo away from losing their license and one whistleblower away from federal charges—the reaction wasn’t just panic. It was innovation. Or something pretending to be it.
Enter: TrapCam™
The first surveillance startup built specifically to obstruct justice.
“We don’t record crime—we protect wellness,” says TrapCam’s co-founder, whose LinkedIn lists him as a “RegTech futurist” and former VP of Strategic Partnerships at Eaze. “When law enforcement shows up unannounced, our AI recognizes uniform colors, badge glint, or the presence of a clipboard. Within seconds, TrapCam deletes all footage and triggers an auto-response email to your attorney, your regulator, and your weed PR firm.”
He’s serious. And so are the 71 dispensaries and 14 unlicensed grow ops who’ve already signed on.
BORN FROM PARANOIA, BUILT FOR LIABILITY
TrapCam launched out of a WeWork in Venice Beach just days after the Ring scandal broke. The timing wasn’t coincidence. According to leaked investor materials obtained by Boof du Jour, the founders saw “warrantless surveillance fear spiking + cannabis operator trust tanking = market opportunity.”
The deck is full of Silicon Valley rot:
“Turn compliance into resistance”
“Build trust with regulators by deleting evidence before they ask for it”
“Cloud storage, but make it vaporize”
And the tech? Suspiciously vague.TrapCam claims to use “motion-activated legal interpretation” powered by a proprietary neural net called F.U.L.L.Y. (Footage Unavailable, Legal Liability Yours).
One engineer, who asked to remain anonymous, told Boof:
“It’s literally just a ring light and a refurbished iPad that runs an IF/THEN script tied to facial recognition and ‘Cop Mustache Index.’ It works about 70% of the time unless the badge is a patch instead of a pin.”
LICENSED OPERATORS LOVE IT. WHICH IS EXACTLY THE PROBLEM.
TrapCam’s earliest adopters include some of the worst-behaving names in legal weed.
A former Skymint executive reportedly installed TrapCam units across three “inactive” facilities before abruptly resigning.
A Red White & Bloom affiliate allegedly purchased 17 cameras, but listed them under an out-of-state LLC to avoid scrutiny.
And a budtender at Lume claimed his store manager instructed him to “accidentally unplug” the TrapCam during state inspections—“so it looks like it wasn’t working, but you still don’t have footage.”
Even Glass House Brands is rumored to be exploring a wholesale order after recent ICE raids exposed their use of undocumented labor.
“We want to protect our facilities, not incriminate them,” said one anonymous compliance officer. “With TrapCam, we finally have control over our own narrative—and our own crimes.”
WHAT THE FUCK DOES ‘LEGAL’ EVEN MEAN?
TrapCam’s founders insist they aren’t obstructing justice—they’re “providing preemptive privacy services.”
The website FAQ leans heavily on phrases like “HIPAA-adjacent” and “data sovereignty,” with zero actual citations.
One investor, who previously backed JuicyFields and now lives in Dubai, called it “a necessary counterbalance to government overreach.”
But law enforcement and regulators aren’t laughing.
“This is textbook obstruction,” said a spokesperson for California’s DCC. “Deleting surveillance footage in anticipation of regulatory visits or police activity is not ‘compliance innovation.’ It’s illegal. Period.”
Still, enforcement remains nonexistent. Because when you're short-staffed, underfunded, and 4 months behind on license reviews, you don't have time to chase the guy selling auto-delete cameras to weed stores.
PRICING, FEATURES, AND THE “COPS!” UPGRADE
TrapCam currently offers three tiers:
The Puff Plan – $999/unitIncludes “Badge Watch,” 8-second delay delete, and a complimentary “Do You Have a Warrant?” doorbell chime.
The Pass Plan – $4,200/unitAdds facial scrubbing, audit log manipulation, and a feature called “Inspector Annihilator,” which corrupts footage if clipboard detection is triggered.
The Puff-Puff-Pass Plan – $8,900/unitIncludes a backup feed routed through offshore servers, auto-scrubbing of employee misconduct, and “Kevin,” a Bluetooth-linked speaker system that yells “COPS!” in a human voice when triggered. The voice, per leaked documentation, is voiced by former MedMen security staff.
YOU’RE NOT SCARED OF SURVEILLANCE. YOU’RE SCARED OF BEING SEEN.
The irony of TrapCam is that it’s selling “protection” to an industry that already floods itself with cameras, tracking logs, biometric locks, and hourly inventory reconciliation. But those systems only work when you control what they capture.
TrapCam offers plausible deniability with a battery pack.
It’s not about compliance. It’s about optics. It’s not about privacy. It’s about the ability to say “the footage was lost” with a straight face.
It’s not about security. It’s about protecting your bullshit.
The founder puts it best, in the final line of the pitch deck:
“You can’t regulate what you can’t see.”
Editor’s Note: In the spirit of compliance, containment, and unapologetic grifting, Boof du Jour is proud to announce the TrapCam™ Official Operator Tee — the first shirt designed to disappear from regulatory view.
Wear it at your own risk. Buy it at your own reward. Now available in the Boof Store → www.boofdujour.com/product-page/trapcam-official-operator-tee
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