Community-mapped ALPRs on the independent DeFlock map. Left is Jan. 1, 2024. Right is Sept. 10, 2026. Dots are what volunteers have logged. This is not a city inventory, and it is not complete.
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155Municipalities that ended Flock (voted cancel / non-renew / rescind)
The 94 abuse rows are catalogued incidents as of . Fired / resigned (89), charged or arrested (59), and convicted or sentenced (8) count people in those records, so one agency probe can add several people. The three people-counts overlap: one person can be fired and charged, or charged and later convicted. A charge, arrest, or accusation is not a finding of guilt. Convicted counts a published guilty plea, no-contest plea, jury conviction, or sentence. The 17,910+ lookup figure is a minimum known total: it only sums published personal / non-work plate-search counts from the 23 misuse records that report personal-search numbers (for example Colleton County 2,700, Haines City 700+, Joplin 395, Buford 375+, Sedgwick 228, Niceville ~192, Milwaukee ~179, Mauldin 166, Deer Park ~165, Fort Bend ~189, Alpharetta 103, Oak Ridge 18). Most other abuse cases do not publish lookup totals, so the real figure is higher. It excludes AI-error wrongful stops and the separate 2.6M+ federal / out-of-state access figure in the San Francisco / Los Altos class-action row. The 25 wrongful-stop lawsuits are from the wrongful-enforcement dossier (false matches, bad stops, related damages claims). This site also documents 5 constitutional / program challenges to Flock-style dragnets or related approvals:
Schmidt v. Norfolk (Fourth Amendment / continuous tracking; ongoing appeal),
Wichita / Grimmett (Kansas Constitution challenge seeking to end the program),
Boulder Flock class action (mass-surveillance challenge),
Huntington ACLU suit (challenge to the city’s $2.1M Flock approval process), and
San Jose / Institute for Justice (Fourth Amendment class action seeking 24-hour delete / warrant limits). Those five are not inside the wrongful-stop “25.” The $3.68M figure sums documented paid settlements in the wrongful-stop dossier ($3,679,500 across 12 cases); it includes major non-Flock ALPR settlements cited for liability scale (for example Aurora $1.9M and San Francisco $495k) and excludes open claims without a paid amount. The 155 municipal exits are cities, counties, and one campus that terminated, did not renew, rescinded, or canceled Flock before install. That excludes 52 other records that are pauses, temporary suspensions, expire / renegotiate cases, or unauthorized removals (for example Oklahoma City’s delayed renewal, Sumter County’s Flock suspension, Grass Valley’s indefinite ALPR suspend, New Bedford’s temporary Flock suspend, Palm Bay’s permitting-driven hooded suspend, Cabot and Mayflower’s Arkansas pauses, North Branch and Shorewood’s Minnesota pauses, LAPD’s expire-then-renegotiate fight, Millcreek’s unauthorized-camera takedown, Burnet County’s fixed-camera removal while portable trailers remain, Brentwood’s HOA right-of-way pull while city PD Flock stays, Sullivan County’s sheriff suspend until further notice, Henry County, Virginia’s sheriff suspend while the contract still runs through 2028, Indianola’s camera deactivate while hardware stays up, Lufkin’s camera suspend, and Abington Township’s expire while it shops a replacement vendor). The full cancel database holds 207 records.
These cases are not Crossville’s. They show how the same kind of plate-reader stack fails elsewhere, false alerts, stalking, and high-risk stops. Crossville still needs a published search policy, partner list, and monthly use reports.
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The Citizen reported September 10, 2026, that Peachtree City Police said two officers are no longer employed and that both matters were turned over to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. The department told the paper the officers’ activities appear to have involved misuse of the city’s Flock system. The officers are not named here. A referral is not a finding of guilt.
ClickOrlando reported June 10, 2026, that Florida Highway Patrol arrested a civilian in April over an October 2025 crash on Interstate 4 in Volusia County that killed three people. She spent 13 days in jail. ClickOrlando reported that her vehicle had appeared on nearby Flock cameras around the time of the crash. WESH reported that troopers cited a Flock camera that captured her plate about three miles from the crash two minutes before it happened, and that her attorney said a time-distance analysis showed she was already past the scene. A 911 caller had described a maroon SUV. She drove a black one. This site does not name the civilian.
WESH reported May 26, 2026, that the Volusia County state attorney’s office dropped all eight felony charges. ClickOrlando reported that FHP’s reconstruction team later said key evidence had been missed, and that FHP arrested another driver. ClickOrlando also reported that FHP declined to say whether mistakes were made and called the crash case an active criminal investigation.
WESH reported June 9, 2026, that she filed a federal civil-rights lawsuit against two FHP troopers. The complaint, as WESH described it, alleges the troopers fabricated vehicle-damage evidence and swore to false statements in an arrest-warrant affidavit. Those are allegations in a civil complaint, not findings. On September 7, 404 Media interviewed the driver and her lawyer. The podcast said troopers used Flock’s freeform search, which looks through camera images by a written description, while looking for a black SUV. Fox News aired a national segment on the jail stay and dropped charges on September 9, 2026.
Developments
: Fox News airs a national segment on the Flock hit, the 13 days in jail, and the dropped charges.
: 404 Media interviews the driver and her lawyer. The podcast says troopers used a freeform search while looking for a black SUV.
: WESH and ClickOrlando report the federal lawsuit against two FHP troopers.
: WESH reports prosecutors dropped all eight felony charges.
: ClickOrlando reports FHP arrested her after a nearby Flock hit.
Port City Daily reported September 8, 2026, that a Wrightsville Beach police officer was no longer employed after an internal audit of the town’s Flock system. Town leadership asked for the audit, then notified the State Bureau of Investigation and the district attorney. No charges were announced in that coverage. The officer is not named here. A referral is not a finding of guilt.
WPTV reported September 8, 2026, that a former Fort Pierce police officer was arrested over alleged misuse of police database systems. That writeup said the department had not yet released the officer’s name or the charges. The officer is not named here. An arrest is not a finding of guilt.
KFDA reported that an officer from the Amarillo Police Department was fired July 17, 2026, then charged with 78 counts of tampering with a government record. The Potter County Attorney’s Office accepted the complaint August 31. KFDA reported he turned himself in September 1. The same reporting said the complaint alleges 76 Flock plate searches between February 25 and June 13, plus two searches in another law-enforcement database. The officer is not named here. A charge is not a finding of guilt. Cameras stay. On September 8, KFDA reported Chief Thomas Hover told the city council the department cut ALPR retention to seven days, requires monthly supervisor audits, and will review a flagged search within three days. KFDA posted the interview the same day.
Developments
: KFDA posts an interview, and reports the chief’s council briefing on shorter retention and supervisor audits. Cameras stay.
: KFDA later reported the officer turned himself in. The complaint had been accepted August 31.
: Amarillo PD fired the officer. KFDA reported the firing with the September 2 charge story.
WSB-TV reported September 7, 2026, that a student’s new car was flagged by Flock twice in two days. The family told the station the flag came from insurance data that had not caught up after the purchase. Jalopnik, citing that interview, reported an Atlanta officer stopped the student, the student showed proof of insurance, and the student was still cited. The next day, the same report said, Cobb County officers stopped the same car for the same reason. The family said the citation still has to be contested. WSB did not report a court outcome. A citation is not a finding. The student is not named here.
Port City Daily reported September 1, 2026, that a Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office deputy resigned after a Flock-system review. Sheriff Brian Chism referred the case to the North Carolina SBI. The district attorney will decide whether to charge. No charges were announced in that coverage. The deputy is not named here.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation reported September 1, 2026, that a Georgia Department of Corrections special agent in charge was arrested and charged with misuse of a license-plate reader system after GDC asked GBI to investigate alleged non-work Flock use. The officer is not named here. A charge is not a finding of guilt.
The Augusta Press and later CBS Atlanta reported a widening Richmond County Sheriff’s Office Flock audit in 2026. Combined local coverage described six deputies fired and charged as the investigation expanded through late August. Deputies are not named here. A charge is not a finding of guilt.
WIRED reported that an Alpharetta police officer was placed on paid leave July 20, 2026, and resigned August 5 after an internal investigation of alleged personal Flock searches totaling 103. A lieutenant told WIRED a criminal investigation was ongoing. No charges were announced in that reporting. The officer is not named here. An investigation is not a finding of guilt.
WCVB reported that a Stow police officer resigned August 26, 2026, before a termination hearing. Town officials said an internal investigation found alleged Flock and state criminal-history searches without a legitimate law-enforcement reason. The department said it filed a criminal complaint seeking charges. The officer is not named here. A complaint seeking charges is not a conviction. Stow also ended its Flock contract (cancel writeup).
ABC13 reported that Katy Police said an officer was fired and charged with misuse of official information and stalking after alleged Flock plate searches. The officer is not named here. The civilian is not named here. A charge is not a finding of guilt.
CBS Atlanta reported August 20, 2026, that a Cherokee County deputy was fired and arrested after an internal review of alleged non-work Flock searches. FOX 5 Atlanta said that was the fourth Cherokee Sheriff’s Office employee fired and charged in the same kind of case this year. Deputies are not named here. A charge is not a finding of guilt.
The Boston Globe reported August 20, 2026, that a Lynn Police Flock audit placed two officers on leave. No firing or charge was announced in that coverage. Officers are not named here. An investigation is not a finding of guilt.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation reported August 7, 2026, that a former Polk County Police officer was charged with four misdemeanor counts of license-plate reader misuse. GBI reported August 12 that a former Dallas, Georgia, 911 director was charged with two misdemeanor counts. GBI reported July 27 that a former Ogeechee Circuit District Attorney’s Office investigator was charged after more than 60 alleged non-work Flock accesses. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported a Henry County, Georgia, officer was fired and charged. 41NBC reported August 17 that a Houston County Sheriff’s Office deputy was suspended without pay pending termination after a Flock audit; that coverage said the sheriff referred the case to the district attorney and did not announce charges. Appen Media reported a Sandy Springs officer was classified as terminated after alleged Flock searches for a private company product. Appen also reported Dunwoody terminated an officer in February 2026 after an internal investigation of alleged Flock and database searches. People in these cases are not named here. A charge is not a finding of guilt.
CBS Atlanta reported August 10, 2026, that three former Bibb County deputies were arrested after an internal Flock audit. The sheriff’s office said two resigned during the investigation and one resigned shortly after arrest. Deputies are not named here. A charge is not a finding of guilt.
WBTV reported August 5, 2026, that a Mooresville police officer was arrested after the chief said the officer accessed Flock 31 times for a non-work purpose. The Charlotte Observer reported the same arrest. The chief said other officers were under review; those reviews are not counted here until a published job action or charge. The officer is not named here. A charge is not a finding of guilt.
The Post and Courier reported July 29, 2026, that Greenville County Sheriff’s Office fired a deputy and a dispatcher after Flock flagged alleged personal searches. That coverage said neither was charged. South Carolina Public Radio reported July 30 that Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said a deputy was fired and charged with misconduct in office after an audit found alleged non-work Flock use. People in these cases are not named here. A charge is not a finding of guilt.
The Charlotte Observer reported that a Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer was arrested July 29, 2026, on a charge of accessing computers after an alleged unauthorized Flock and state criminal-history query. The officer is not named here. A charge is not a finding of guilt.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation reported July 6, 2026, that five former Albany Police officers were arrested and charged after an internal Flock audit; GBI said they are no longer employed there. Atlanta News First reported a Greene County deputy was fired and arrested. GBI reported a Conyers dispatcher supervisor was charged after more than 30 alleged non-work searches. FOX 5 Atlanta reported a Habersham County deputy was fired and arrested. CBS Atlanta reported DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office fired and arrested a former sergeant, a different agency from DeKalb Police’s eight-officer suspension. The GBI also reported a former Echols County Sheriff’s Office civilian employee was arrested. The Coffee County Sheriff’s Office said a former deputy was fired, then arrested by GBI. InvestigateTV reported a Braselton police chief was fired and arrested by GBI. People in these cases are not named here. A charge is not a finding of guilt.
The Institute for Justice lists a Milwaukee detective charged with misconduct after alleged Flock tracking while assigned to investigate a separate Milwaukee officer Flock case. That detective is not the sentenced officer in the July 15 writeup. The detective is not named here. A charge is not a finding of guilt.
The Institute for Justice ALPR-abuse database also lists these personnel cases: an Orange City, Florida, officer charged; a Louisville Metro officer charged; a Kenosha County deputy who resigned; a Bonner Springs, Kansas, detective charged; a Winnebago County, Illinois, deputy charged; a Prairie Grove, Illinois, officer fired and charged; a Monroe County, Florida, deputy charged; a Jerome County, Idaho, sheriff who retired after an attorney-general review that found no crime; a Haines City, Florida, officer arrested after alleged Flock searches; and a former West Chester, Ohio, officer sentenced after alleged Flock-data tampering. KPRC 2 reported a Baytown officer resigned while Flock investigations continued. IndyStar reported an Indianapolis officer was recommended for firing over alleged personal ALPR use; no charge was announced in that coverage. People in those listings are not named here. A charge is not a finding of guilt. A plea or sentence is what the cited listing reported.
The New Bedford Light reported that Chief Jason Thody recommended September 3, 2026, that the city fire two officers from New Bedford Police after an internal investigation alleged personal Flock lookups of people known to those officers. One is a detective and one is a sergeant. They are not named here. The department’s own September 3 statement said civil-service hearings are pending and that the cases were referred to the Bristol County District Attorney. A recommendation to fire is not a completed firing. Alleged lookups are allegations. Flock cameras in New Bedford stay offline (pause writeup).
The Arizona Republic reported that Queen Creek Town Council voted unanimously September 2, 2026, to add safeguards on the town’s 62 automated license-plate readers and to make unauthorized Flock searches a local offense, with a possible six-month jail term and $2,500 fine. Town officials said Queen Creek is the first Arizona city they know of to add that criminal penalty. Police said users must log searches electronically and on paper with a case number. Residents asked council to cancel Flock. Council kept the cameras.
Atlanta News First reported September 2, 2026, that Hall County Sheriff’s Office fired an investigator after an internal Flock audit found alleged searches of someone known to that investigator for a non-law-enforcement purpose. The office said it referred the alleged violations to Georgia POST. The same recap said two investigators were fired the prior week and three deputies resigned September 1. The cited press release did not mention criminal charges. Deputies are not named here. Alleged searches are allegations.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation reported September 2, 2026, that a deputy from the Clayton County Sheriff’s Office was charged with misuse of a license-plate reader system. The sheriff’s office asked GBI to investigate alleged non-law-enforcement Flock use. FOX 5 Atlanta reported the deputy turned themselves in September 1. The deputy is not named here. The cited GBI release does not say the deputy was fired. A charge is not a finding of guilt. The case is to go to the Clayton County District Attorney.
WALB reported August 27, 2026, that an officer from Hahira Police was fired after an internal review found alleged policy violations, some potentially criminal, and that the department asked GBI to investigate. On September 1, WALB reported that the former officer was arrested over alleged non-work Flock searches found in an audit. The officer is not named here. Search counts and who was looked up were not published. A charge or arrest is not a finding of guilt.
Atlanta News First reported August 28, 2026, that Athens-Clarke County Police received a complaint August 27 alleging a civilian supervisor ran non-work Flock searches in 2025. The same reporting said the chief fired the employee and asked GBI to open a criminal investigation. No charges were announced in that coverage. The employee is not named here. An investigation is not a finding of guilt.
The Intercept reported September 9, 2026 that Flock’s search menu includes a crime category labeled “Curfew/Loitering/Vagrancy Violations.” Records from Plano, Illinois, showed outside agencies tapped that town’s cameras more than 1,200 times under that category. The Intercept said that is only one town’s cameras, so the national total is larger. Have I Been Flocked logs cited in the piece show hundreds more of those searches in other states. Some queries were plate searches; others, the reporting said, show police using the network while looking at people on foot. Flock did not respond to The Intercept’s request for comment.
Examples in the same reporting include a Norcross, Georgia, phone search that hit more than 6,000 Flock camera networks; LaGrange, Georgia, searches over thousands of networks for someone leaving a house with heavy traffic and for someone “lingering at a stop sign around midnight”; and West Palm Beach logs shared by EFF investigator Dave Maass that included a query tied to an outside agency dropping a person labeled a “vagrant” in the city. The Intercept also reported that search logs showed the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation ran a “Curfew/Loitering/Vagrancy Violations” query across more than 17,000 Flock cameras with a note about a “suspicious person at planned protest site.” A TBI spokesperson told The Intercept those searches came from the Tennessee Fusion Center and referred further questions to the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security, which had not responded in the cited coverage. Tennessee writeup: TBI / fusion center. Dossier: Flock dossier.
Inquest (Brendan McQuade and Ed Vogel, Sept. 10, 2026) argued that homeland-security funding after 9/11 midwifed a public–private surveillance market. The essay places Flock and Axon as platform vendors: agencies pay for continuous access to mass automated tools on corporate servers. It cites Flock at more than 120,000 AI plate-reader cameras, contracts with about 40% of U.S. law-enforcement agencies, and a private valuation of about $7.5 billion, plus the company’s claim that it can “eliminate almost all crime” within a decade. It also describes the Axon–Flock breakup: Axon cutting Flock’s access to Fleet 3 dash-cam feeds and launching competing products (Axon Outpost, Axon Lightpole) and the Fusus real-time crime-center stack. Deeper vendor writeup: Flock dossier.
National · August 28, 2026 · USA TODAY search-log investigation
USA TODAY: Flock blacked out monthly audit exports
USA TODAY reported August 28, 2026 that its reporters analyzed more than 75 million Flock searches spanning about three and a half years and more than 6,300 agencies. The newspaper said many of those searches used vague reasons such as “INVESTIGATION,” “TEST,” or a single letter.
USA TODAY also reported that in December 2025 Flock changed monthly audit exports so most officer initials, plates, and search reasons are blacked out. Flock told the paper it made that change after a pattern of people using public audit data to identify undercover officers. When pressed for examples, USA TODAY said Flock did not provide any. Electronic Frontier Foundation investigator Dave Maass, quoted in the story, called the redactions catastrophic for public oversight and for agencies trying to audit searches run by outside departments. Flock said any officer abuse is unacceptable and that people who abuse the system should be held accountable.
Spotlight · Brookfield, Wisconsin · August 2026 · stale Flock homicide alert / high-risk stop
Brookfield PD holds SUV occupants at gunpoint after an outdated Milwaukee Flock alert
On August 6, 2026, around 4:46 p.m., a Flock Safety camera flagged a vehicle on Interstate 94 in Waukesha County as linked to a Milwaukee homicide with a suspect believed to be armed. CBS 58 reported that Brookfield officers then ran a high-risk stop on westbound I-94 and ordered two people out of the SUV at gunpoint. Investigators quickly determined the occupants were not the people Milwaukee police were looking for.
Milwaukee PD had already cleared the vehicle from the investigation but had left the alert live. An MPD spokesperson told local stations, including TMJ4, “This was not a Flock issue. MPD staff inadvertently did not remove a vehicle alert from the system.” Brookfield Police Chief Christopher Garcia defended his officers in a statement covered by WTMJ, saying they stopped the vehicle that was the subject of the alert. The occupants were released after Milwaukee confirmed it no longer wanted the car or the people.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported August 25, 2026 that the driver retained a lawyer and is preparing a notice of claim against Milwaukee. No lawsuit is reported as filed in the cited coverage. This site does not name the civilian. ACLU of Wisconsin analyst Jon McCray Jones, quoted by CBS 58, called the episode a systemic failure: shared Flock data led another jurisdiction to stop an innocent person at gunpoint.
Developments
: Journal Sentinel reports the driver retained counsel and is preparing a notice of claim. No lawsuit filed in cited coverage.
: Brookfield high-risk I-94 stop after a Flock alert on a leftover Milwaukee homicide flag.
WJCL reported that Colleton County Sheriff Guerry L. “Buddy” Hill Jr. fired a lieutenant after an audit found more than 2,700 alleged unauthorized Flock searches involving 14 people over about a year. Flock’s newer audit tools were turned on August 12, 2026; the alleged misuse was flagged the next day. The sheriff’s office did not name the lieutenant. Individual deputies no longer have direct Flock access; Communications runs searches, with temporary access only during an active investigation.
Savannah Police announced that an internal audit under Flock’s Audit Assistance Program flagged potential misuse by four officers and two civilian employees. The department placed all six on administrative leave July 31, 2026, and later fired all six. SPD said the alleged searches were not for official police work.
Developments
— Savannah PD says all six were fired after the July audit.
St. Louis Public Radio reported August 20, 2026 that a civilian employee of the St. Charles County Police Department admitted using Flock for a personal, non-law-enforcement reason. Police Chief Kurt Frisz was told about Flock’s Audit Assistance tool on August 12; an abnormal pattern of searches turned up two days later. The department did not name the employee. The worker was given notice of termination and then resigned. Frisz discontinued Flock the same day (CAN-2026-119).
Houston Public Media reported August 20, 2026 that a Deer Park Police officer was suspended for 10 days after admitting to about 165 personal, non-work Flock searches. The department did not name the officer. This site does not name any civilian.
The Advocate and WDSU reported August 19, 2026 that Jefferson Parish Sheriff Joseph Lopinto fired a deputy after an internal investigation. The office said the deputy searched a civilian’s plate “several thousand times” between 2024 and 2026; it did not publish an exact count. The same reporting said the deputy admitted the searches. This site does not name the deputy or the civilian. Lopinto said there would be no criminal charges. “You can’t use the Flock system as your own personal Life 360,” he said. JPSO still uses Flock.
NBC 26 reported that a former Menasha Police officer was sentenced August 17, 2026 to six months in jail and three years of probation after a no-contest plea to felony misconduct in public office. The complaint said the officer used department credentials while off duty in October 2025 to search Flock for vehicles tied to a civilian. The officer later resigned. FOX 11 reported August 19 that a judge denied his request to stay out of jail while appealing the sentence, which was longer than the joint recommendation.
Atlanta News First reported August 15, 2026 that Mayor Andre Dickens directed Atlanta PD, the Department of Law, and the Chief Operating Officer’s office to run a comprehensive 30-day review of the city’s Flock system and related policies. An August 10 memo from COO LaChandra Burks, obtained by the Atlanta…
FOX Carolina reported August 14, 2026 that the South Carolina Criminal Justice Academy confirmed a Mauldin Police officer was fired. Officials said the officer ran 166 Flock searches between March and July on the same vehicle for a non-work reason, and that the logged reasons were not true. The officer is not named here. Those are the agency’s allegations.
AZ Central reported August 14, 2026 that Surprise canceled its Flock Safety contract and asked the company to take down about 28 cameras. Two days earlier the same outlet reported a temporary suspend after a routine audit found an unexplained anomaly.
National · July to August 2026 · Mother Jones / IJ stalking roundup
Mother Jones and IJ map a national pattern of Flock job-loss cases
A July 2026 Mother Jones report summarized a romantic-partner stalking pattern across Flock / ALPR systems, with officers losing jobs after alleged personal lookups. The Institute for Justice catalog cited in that piece identified similar ALPR stalking cases over two years.
On August 12, the Institute for Justice launched a searchable ALPR-abuse database. IJ says it catalogues more than 100 incidents of romantic stalking, wrongful stops and detentions, non-law-enforcement use, and other misconduct. Common Dreams coverage of the launch put the starting set around 140 examples. Crossville already tracks several of the named local stories (
Milwaukee,
Greer,
Pasadena).
Developments
— Institute for Justice launches a searchable ALPR-abuse database (100+ / about 140 at launch).
— Mother Jones: officers losing jobs after alleged Flock / ALPR personal lookups.
KTAR and KJZZ reported that an officer from Apache Junction PD resigned after Chief Michael Pooley said an internal investigation concluded the officer used the city’s Flock cameras on April 19, 2026 to locate a civilian during a personal dispute. Pooley said the officer asked department dispatchers to run a plate as a personal favor. The officer is not named here. Those are the department’s allegations.
Providence Journal reported on August 8, 2026 on a federal lawsuit (filed June 2026) alleging Cumberland police wrongfully arrested and prosecuted a woman after a March 26, 2025 high-speed elude. An officer reported seeing a driver matching a description; a sergeant later used social media and then a…
WSB-TV reported on August 7, 2026 that DeKalb Police Chief Gregory Padrick confirmed eight DeKalb police officers were suspended for Flock ALPR policy violations after audits and administrative investigations. Discipline ranged from 16 to 80 hours; none of the eight had been criminally charged. Padrick said five…
Brown County, Wisconsin · April 2025 stop · Flock interstate travel / cannabis pretext
404 Media: deputies used Flock to follow a plate across state lines, then treated legal Michigan travel as weed-search fodder
404 Media reviewed a Brown County criminal complaint alleging deputies used the shared Flock network to follow a driver’s plate from Wisconsin into Michigan and back on April 26, 2025. Prior Flock hits were cited to claim the vehicle “travels to Michigan frequently,” and the complaint called Michigan a “known source state for marijuana as it is legal there.” When a camera showed the vehicle southbound on I-41 toward Green Bay, deputies coordinated an intercept, stopped the driver, claimed raw-marijuana odor, searched the car, and charged possession.
Court records described in that reporting say the driver was found guilty of weed possession. The point for Crossville: the same multi-state camera network can turn ordinary travel into a searchable pattern and then into the story police tell a judge. Drive into a state where cannabis is legal, and Flock history of that trip can become part of the probable-cause writeup when you come home (Multi-Geo & Convoy).
Developments
— 404 Media and follow-on coverage publish the Brown County complaint’s Flock travel / weed-search narrative.
— Deputies use multi-state Flock hits to intercept a driver; car searched; weed possession charged.
The Coweta County Sheriff’s Office said three employees resigned on August 4, 2026 after a self-initiated Flock audit flagged their accounts. Each resigned during meetings with department leaders before the audit finished and before an internal investigation opened. The agency asked the Georgia Bureau of…
NBC4 reported on August 4, 2026 that two Reynoldsburg Police officers resigned within about two months amid internal reviews of possible Flock misuse. Records described for one officer show more than 50 non-work-related searches over six months; that officer resigned effective July 16, the day before a scheduled…
Atlanta News First published an August 3, 2026 podcast episode summarizing the national fight over Flock: independent estimates of more than 90,000 cameras across 49 states and 6,000+ agencies, documented officer job-loss cases for personal lookups, Audit Assistance tooling that flags suspicious…
An August 3, 2026 Texas Tribune / Waco Bridge investigation described Flock’s rapid expansion across Texas even as cities cancel or protest. Advocates estimate more than 10,000 cameras in the state. DPS declined to disclose its own camera count but confirmed data-sharing partnerships with 206 local agencies (up…
Internal-affairs documents obtained by ABC13 and summarized by Chron say a Fort Bend County Sheriff’s Office lieutenant searched one civilian’s license plate about 148 times (and another plate about 41 times) from 2022 through 2025. Those documents say the lieutenant admitted the searches were not for official sheriff’s-office purposes.…
Greer Police terminated two officers (late June 2026) after an internal investigation alleged unauthorized Flock searches. Separation documents described by the Greenville Online say one officer searched plates tied to someone the officer knew and entered inaccurate…
Roseville, California · July 31, 2026 · Flock alert accuracy / plate misreads
Roseville PD found Flock misread plates in 71% of stolen or felony alerts
Business Insider’s Nicole Einbinder reported on July 31, 2026 that Roseville police analyzed Flock alerts from 2023 and 2024 and found the system incorrectly read plates in 71% of the 1,427 alerts flagging vehicles as stolen or used in a felony. Records also describe repeated character swaps (for example, 9 as 8), blurry or delayed captures, and missed vehicles. Roseville said none of those incorrect alerts led to a stop or arrest because officers must verify a plate before stopping; California has no statewide verify-before-stop rule like some other states.
Flock told BI its character-read accuracy exceeds 96% in optimal conditions and blamed Roseville’s atypical rear-only camera setup and older hardware placements. Roseville disputed that performance has clearly improved and said it still meets with Flock twice a month. NYU Policing Project’s Max Isaacs called a 71% misread rate on those alerts “beyond the pale.” This site also cites Roseville’s very low EFF hit ratio (about 0.03% of scans matching wanted lists), a different metric from alert-level OCR error rates.
Texas Public Radio reported on July 29, 2026 that automated license-plate readers are spreading across Bexar County. The Bexar County Sheriff’s Office alone operates 33 Flock cameras; its public dashboard recently showed more than 750,000 vehicle detections in a 30-day window. Area cities and HOAs also run Flock.…
A July 28, 2026 NorthJersey.com explainer summarized the national fight over Flock: searchable vehicle-movement records, lawsuits and protests, reports of federal access concerns (including ICE-related access debates), and a tally of more than 50 municipalities that have canceled or rejected contracts. For the…
ABC 33/40 and al.com reported parallel St. Clair County cases. Moody Police Chief Reece Smith said an officer was terminated July 16, 2026 after a July 10 investigation found a license-plate-reader policy violation; findings went to the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency. Springville Police Chief Jason Mize said a June…
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported July 15, 2026 that a former Milwaukee officer received probation and a fine. Earlier reporting put alleged personal Flock searches at about 179 lookups of civilians known to the officer. The officer is not named here. The sentence is what the paper reported, not this site’s finding of guilt.
KPRC 2 reported that in July 2026 a Pasadena Police sergeant resigned while under an active internal investigation. City Council Member Emmanuel Guerrero told the station he believes the probe centered on allegations that the sergeant used the city’s Flock system to track a fellow officer. The sergeant is not named here. An allegation is not a finding of guilt.
Automotive journalist Joel Feder (The Drive) and a passenger were leaving a Kohl’s parking lot in Plymouth when four squad cars boxed them in. Officers ordered hands up; Feder was patted down. Body-cam and Feder’s own account show police had been following Flock plate alerts on the Range Rover press loaner for…
Mid Bay News reported that a Niceville officer was arrested October 10, 2025, and later entered a no-contest plea. Local reporting said an internal audit (January–October 2025) alleged unauthorized database and Flock searches of a fellow officer and someone known to that officer, about 192 Flock searches plus access to other systems. The officer is not named here. A charge is not a finding of guilt; the plea is what the outlet reported.
Crossville does not need its own scandal for these risks to be real. Cited reporting says an Oak Ridge officer was charged, pleaded guilty, and was sentenced on 23 official-misconduct counts. A charge is not a finding of guilt; the plea and sentence are what the outlets reported.
Cities that cancelled, removed, or let Flock expire
Cities and agencies across the country have terminated contracts, refused renewal, let agreements expire, suspended cameras, or rescinded approvals. The SF Standard / Ban Flock Cameras tally cited on this page reported roughly 82 ended contracts across 28 states from Aug. 2021 to May 2026. That May 2026 aggregator is smaller and older than this site’s 207-record catalog (JSON).
Public pressure has ended contracts elsewhere, but quitting Flock is not always quitting ALPR.In many cities, residents speaking at council helped drive cancellations. Some of those same cities then hired Axon, or shop other ALPR brands like Motorola Vigilant, Rekor, or Leonardo ELSAG, for plate readers on the same poles. That swaps the company name. It does not end mass plate scanning. Some pitches go further (Leonardo SignalTrace correlates plates with phone and Bluetooth IDs). Read
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Ended contracts (terminated, non-renewal, rescinded, or cancelled before install) currently number 155. The other rows are pauses, suspensions, expire / renegotiate cases, or unauthorized removals. One card per story below. Panels are ordered by newest development first (fresh stories and updates). Multi-stage cases list each beat under Developments.
Law enforcement officials who pulled Flock
Named sheriffs who ordered a cancel, non-renewal, or camera pull without hiring Axon or another plate-reader brand to do the same job. This is not every council vote. Search the catalog above for the full municipal list, including vendor swaps.
Police Chief Kyle Montgomery Magnolia, Texas
Told KPRC 2 the department will not renew its Flock contract when it expires in October 2026, citing privacy, budget, and limited use. The city does not own the cameras; Flock is to retrieve them after the term ends.
National writeup ·
KPRC 2 / Click2Houston (Sept. 7) ·
CAN-2026-184
Sheriff Anthony Cline Wythe County, Virginia
Announced September 1, 2026 that the sheriff’s office is ending its Flock contract and removing four cameras, citing privacy, data sharing, and constitutional concerns.
National writeup ·
WDBJ (Sept. 1) ·
CAN-2026-164
Sheriff Whit Clark Campbell County, Virginia
Said in a September 2, 2026 news release that he canceled the county’s Flock contract after residents raised privacy and civil-liberty concerns.
National writeup ·
Cardinal News (Sept. 3) ·
CAN-2026-167
Sheriff Robert Richardson Appomattox County, Virginia
Announced around September 2, 2026 that the office is terminating its Flock contract. He said the tool is valuable and that the data must be handled with transparency.
National writeup ·
Cardinal News (Sept. 3) ·
CAN-2026-166
Sheriff Jason Ramsey Bland County, Virginia
Announced September 1, 2026 that the office stopped using Flock on July 11 and that a work order is in to remove the cameras.
National writeup ·
WSET (Sept. 3–4) ·
CAN-2026-177
Sheriff Kevin Kemp Carroll County, Virginia
Told ABC 13 the county’s Flock contract expired in July and was not renewed.
National writeup ·
WSET (Sept. 3–4) ·
CAN-2026-178
Sheriff Stacy L. Ball Pulaski County, Missouri
Announced August 19–20, 2026 that the sheriff’s office will discontinue Flock, will not renew, and will not replace the cameras with Axon, after a community forum in Waynesville.
National writeup ·
KRCGTV (Aug. 20) ·
CAN-2026-116
Police Chief Tom McClain Willard, Missouri
Announced August 21, 2026 that Willard will not renew its Flock Safety contract after community feedback, and said the department will order the cameras removed.
National writeup ·
KY3 (Aug. 21) ·
CAN-2026-124
Sheriff Chip McIntyre Moffat County, Colorado
Stopped using the office’s Flock cameras on August 13, 2026; the contract ends December 31, 2026. Cited privacy, cost, and data-sharing concerns for the shared ~$30,000-a-year, 10-camera system.
National writeup ·
Craig Daily Press ·
CAN-2026-126
Sheriff Josh Verscheure Henry County, Illinois
Announced August 19, 2026 that the sheriff’s office will end its Flock partnership on August 31, citing public trust. Distinct from Henry County, Virginia, and Henry County, Missouri.
National writeup ·
KWQC (Aug. 19) ·
CAN-2026-111
Sheriff Aaron N. Brown Henry County, Missouri
Announced August 10, 2026 that the sheriff’s office will not renew its Flock LPR agreement when the grant-funded term expires March 11, 2027. Distinct from Henry County, Virginia.
National writeup ·
KDKD (Aug. 10) ·
CAN-2026-108
Sheriff Wayne Davis Henry County, Virginia
Suspended access August 14, 2026 and started dismantling 14 cameras. Exploring early termination of a contract through August 2028; had already said in July he would not renew. WSLS reported the cameras may still record while his office cannot search them.
National writeup ·
WSLS (Aug. 17) ·
CAN-2026-105
Sheriff Jeffrey Cassidy Sullivan County, Tennessee
Suspended his office’s 10 cameras August 17, 2026. On August 20 the County Commission voted 18–0 not to renew; the contract ends in January 2027. Does not cover Kingsport or Bristol PD. A county referendum is not on the ballot.
National writeup ·
Tennessee writeup ·
WJHL via Yahoo (Aug. 20) ·
CAN-2026-100
Sheriff Dave Daniel Josephine County, Oregon
Canceled the office’s 10-camera Flock contract on August 12, 2026 and deactivated the cameras the same day, citing Fourth Amendment concerns.
National writeup ·
Rogue Valley Times ·
CAN-2026-082
Sheriff Ross Teeple Pinal County, Arizona
Told the Board of Supervisors he will not renew the operational contract when it expires September 29, citing Fourth Amendment concerns. The board started a 180-day camera-removal clock on county roads.
National writeup ·
AZFamily ·
CAN-2026-055
On August 31, 2026, Knox County Commission unanimously passed an emergency ordinance banning fixed license plate readers and requiring the Knox County Sheriff’s Office to remove about 143 Flock cameras within 30 days. WATE, WBIR, and Knox News reported a removal deadline of September 16 and said county staff will remove the hardware if KCSO does not. WVLT said the ordinance also bans surveillance centers and future county ALPR purchases on county rights-of-way. Coverage describes years of sheriff purchases just under the $25,000 mayoral-review threshold, an $800,000 Omnia buy, and Mayor Glenn Jacobs saying he does not believe the county has a valid Flock agreement. KCSO had not publicly responded as of cited reporting. Full Tennessee writeup: Knox County ban.
Developments
: Knox News reported Mayor Betsy Henderson said Flock told the county it cannot remove the cameras until Oct. 7, past the Sept. 16 ordinance deadline, and that county crews designed “personal privacy shields” to cover mounted units so Flock cannot collect plate data until takedown.
: Commission unanimously bans fixed ALPRs and orders ~143 Flock cameras down within 30 days.
WMTV reported September 10, 2026, that the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office is suspending its Flock cameras. Sheriff Travis Maze said the office learned its data was released without permission, including cases under investigation in 2025, and that Flock had told the county data would not be released without its permission when the system expanded in 2025. The sheriff’s office said it has no evidence of wrongdoing by its staff. This is a suspend, not a reported contract terminate. Wisconsin Jefferson County, not another state’s Jefferson. Part of the September wave (writeup).
LINK nky reported September 10, 2026, that Bellevue City Council voted unanimously September 9 to suspend Flock use and disable the cameras until the two-year contract ends. More than a year remains on the about $43,000 contract. Council member Shauna Kraus said taking the cameras down could be costly and asked the city to study removal costs, and that cameras should be covered and made inoperable while that review continues. This is a suspend and cover, not a contract terminate. Kentucky Bellevue, not another state’s Bellevue. Northern Kentucky neighbors that already ended Flock include Independence and Erlanger.
Tallahassee Reports and WCTV reported that Tallahassee City Commission voted unanimously September 9, 2026, to suspend city use of automated license plate readers. That covers about 80 Flock cameras and 75 Vigilant cameras (155 total). City Manager Reese Goad said the cameras would be turned off so the city and others cannot access them through the system. A motion to cover within 24 hours and remove within 30 days failed 3–2. Two weeks earlier, on August 26, a 3–2 vote had kept Flock. Commissioners cited public comment, the Florida DOT state-road crackdown, and the Leon County Sheriff’s Office ALPR suspend (writeup). This is a suspend, not a terminate or confirmed hardware pull.
Developments
: Unanimous suspend of all city ALPR. Cover/remove motion fails 3–2. Cameras to be turned off.
: Commission keeps Flock on a 3–2 vote after a removal motion fails.
Tallahassee Reports said Leon County Sheriff Walt McNeil suspended the Leon County Sheriff’s Office use of ALPR technology while seeking stronger oversight and accreditation standards. Tallahassee City Commission cited that sheriff suspend when it unanimously suspended city ALPR on September 9, 2026 (writeup). Distinct from the July 2026 Leon County commission vote rejecting a Flock expansion grant. This is a sheriff suspend, not a reported terminate.
WPR reported September 9, 2026, that Stevens Point covered 10 Flock cameras to stop collection. Mayor Mike Wiza said the city has no simple way to audit where Flock data goes once collected and that the community is not comfortable without assurances the cameras are used only as authorized. Part of the Wisconsin September cascade after Racine and Sheboygan data-sale disputes (writeup). This is a cover/suspend, not a reported contract terminate.
Rocktown Now reported September 9, 2026, that Bridgewater Town Council voted unanimously the night before to immediately terminate its Flock contract and remove the town’s five cameras. The vote also bars reinstalling any automated license plate reader without a public process first. The cameras were installed three years ago. Virginia Bridgewater, not East Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Separate from the earlier Southwest and Southside wave (writeup).
CBS 58 reported September 4, 2026 that more than a dozen Wisconsin localities paused or ended Flock programs in a single week. Racine County Sheriff Christopher Schmaling ordered the county’s cameras taken down. He said the office believed scans were deleted after 30 days, then learned Flock keeps a separate dataset and markets it through Traffic Analytics, retained up to five years. “This is not what we agreed to, and it is not what the public was led to believe,” he said. He said Racine will cut ties and find another vendor. That is a vendor swap, not a ban on plate readers.
Wausau Pilot & Review reported the same day that Flock confirmed to Racine that county camera data was in that product. The paper also published Wausau and Marathon County contract clauses that let Flock keep anonymized vehicle data for other products. Neither of those agencies has canceled. Fond du Lac County agencies and the Winnebago County Sheriff’s Office, plus Neenah and Menasha police, suspended or dropped Flock after search logs tied to investigations were released by agencies in other states answering open-records requests. Milwaukee is keeping its cameras and launched a public dashboard. Sheboygan’s Common Council voted unanimously Sept. 8 to terminate (writeup). Kenosha already switched to Axon (writeup).
WBAY reported September 6, 2026 that covers were going on Fond du Lac County cameras. The same story named Fox Crossing, Winneconne, and University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh police with the Winnebago County Sheriff’s Office, Neenah, and Menasha. UW-Oshkosh is distinct from the City of Oshkosh’s April 2026 terminate (CAN-2026-001). Shared Flock search logs are what let another state’s records request expose local investigative queries.
WBAY reported September 8–9, 2026, that Menasha Common Council voted 7–1 to stop funding Flock and give 30-day notice for camera removal. Bags are already on those cameras. A full terminate vote is expected later in September. Neenah’s Public Service and Safety Committee recommended the city stop funding Flock; that recommendation goes to Common Council. Chief Aaron Olson said accounts were already off. FOX 11 quoted Menasha Chief Matthew Albrecht saying he no longer has confidence in Flock. Waupaca County is a separate writeup (Waupaca writeup).
WPR reported September 9, 2026, that Stevens Point covered 10 cameras and that officials statewide are reacting to Traffic Analytics and data-sale disputes, not only officer-misuse stories. Stevens Point is a separate writeup (Stevens Point). WMTV reported September 10 that Jefferson County is suspending Flock after the sheriff said data was released without permission (writeup).
Developments
: WMTV reports Jefferson County is suspending Flock after the sheriff said data was released without permission (writeup).
: WPR reports Stevens Point covered 10 cameras over data-audit concerns (writeup) and frames the statewide wave around Traffic Analytics / data-sale distrust.
: Menasha council votes 7–1 to stop funding Flock. Neenah’s Public Service and Safety Committee recommends terminate. Waupaca County cuts next-year funding and the sheriff suspends cameras (writeup). Sheboygan Common Council terminates (writeup).
: WBAY reports covers on Fond du Lac cameras and names Fox Crossing, Winneconne, and UW-Oshkosh in the Winnebago cluster.
: CBS 58 and Wausau Pilot & Review report Racine’s takedown, Fond du Lac and Winnebago suspensions, and Traffic Analytics retention.
Sourcescbs58.comwausaupilotandreview.comwsaw.comwbay.com (Sept. 8)fox11online.comwpr.orgCAN-2026-172 (Racine), CAN-2026-173 (Fond du Lac County), CAN-2026-174 (Winnebago County), CAN-2026-175 (Neenah), CAN-2026-176 (Menasha), CAN-2026-181 (Fox Crossing), CAN-2026-182 (Winneconne), CAN-2026-183 (UW-Oshkosh), CAN-2026-200 (Stevens Point), CAN-2026-202 (Jefferson County WI) in the cancellations table
GBH / State House News Service reported September 9, 2026, that Massachusetts lawmakers are weighing statewide rules for police license-plate readers as towns drop Flock. Rep. Steve Owens (D-Watertown) filed H.3755 with Rep. Lindsay Sabadosa. The Transportation Committee endorsed it 11–0 in March; it has been pending in House Ways and Means. Per the committee summary, the bill would bar government actors from accessing ALPR data from other entities without a warrant, cap ordinary retention at 14 days unless tied to a criminal investigation, and bar use to monitor constitutionally protected activity. Formal sessions for the term have ended; Owens said another version may return next session. This is pending legislation, not a statewide camera pull. Town exits: Massachusetts Sept. towns.
LPM reported September 9, 2026, that Kentucky’s interim House Judiciary Committee heard testimony on automated license plate readers after a Sept. 3 hearing. The state already passed House Bill 58 this year (90-day retention and a misdemeanor for ALPR misuse). ACLU of Kentucky and the Cato Institute urged stronger rules, including shorter retention, independent audits, public plate-query notice, and in some cases a judicial warrant before database searches. House Judiciary Chair Rep. Daniel Elliott and Rep. Jason Nemes said they could support a warrant requirement with exigent-circumstances exceptions. A Flock government-relations director and local police defended the tools. This is committee signaling, not a new enacted statute. Related: Flock-Off Act.
CBS Austin reported that Bastrop City Council voted unanimously September 8, 2026, to decommission 12 Flock cameras and terminate or decline to renew the contract. KBTX reported the same vote and that council also barred similar automatic license-plate readers going forward. Cameras had been covered since a September 1 work-session order. The contract had been set to auto-renew in July 2027.
TMJ4 reported that Sheboygan Common Council voted unanimously September 8, 2026, to terminate the Flock Master Services Agreement effective December 31, 2026. Fifteen cameras stay covered until Flock removes the hardware. WHBL reported the resolution cites a March 24, 2026 Flock account-executive email offering to sell anonymized traffic volume, vehicle-type, and speed data from the city’s cameras for up to five years. Police said they did not consent and that the offer breached the contract’s no-sale and 30-day retention terms. This is a terminate vote, not a replacement-vendor deal.
Developments
: Common Council votes unanimously to terminate effective December 31. Bags stay until Flock hauls the hardware.
: City covers all 15 cameras. Police Chief Kurt Zempel and City Administrator Casey Bradley recommend ending the contract. CBS 58.
FOX19 reported that Lebanon, Ohio, City Council voted September 8, 2026, to remove all 20 Flock cameras. Mayor Mark Messer said the city sent Flock 54 written questions on August 17 and got no answers in 21 days. He said the distrust is of the company, not the police department. Cameras were to be shut off and removed starting September 9. This is Lebanon, Ohio, not Lebanon, Tennessee.
ABC13 reported that Manvel City Council voted unanimously September 8, 2026, to end its Flock contract. The 2024 deal covered 21 cameras. Mayor Dan Davis said covers would go on within 24 to 48 hours and that the city would give Flock 30 days’ notice. Manvel police said 535 outside agencies had access to the city’s Flock data, most in Texas and the rest in Louisiana. Davis asked whether Flock uses customer data to train AI tools. Trevor Chandler, a Flock public-affairs director, told council that is part of making cameras more accurate and that the company does not sell customer data.
WBTV reported September 8, 2026, that Catawba police will not extend a 60-day Flock trial and will not enter a long-term subscription. The department cited limited funding and other needs. Trial cameras are to come down. This is the Town of Catawba, not Catawba County.
Click2Houston reported that Willis Mayor William Brown announced September 8, 2026, that the city shut off its Flock system until further notice. City Council will review whether it should return. This is a pause, not a terminate vote.
Port City Daily reported that New Hanover County commissioners voted 4–0 on September 8, 2026, to cancel the sheriff’s Flock ALPR contract. Vice Chair Dane Scalise moved to cancel rather than pause. The $219,000 deal covered 36 cameras set to expire in spring 2027; 20 of those are ALPRs in the cancel. The sheriff’s office said it disabled national data sharing and employee access and notified Flock. Flock is to remove ALPR hardware. Eight Condor PTZ cameras were not in the motion. State-owned I-40 Flock cameras remain. WWAY reported the county cameras were deactivated after the vote.
WBAY reported that the Waupaca County Law Enforcement Committee voted September 8, 2026, to cut next-year Flock funding. The sheriff then suspended the cameras, citing loss of control over sensitive law enforcement information. The county spent $34,500 on Flock this year. This is a funding cut and a suspend, not a reported full-board terminate. Distinct from the Winnebago County / Neenah / Menasha cluster (writeup).
Business Insider reported September 7, 2026 that retail chains that host Flock cameras are now drawing the same kind of public pressure cities have seen. Ultraviolet launched an August petition asking Ulta Beauty to end its Flock contract. Fight for the Future’s Deflock Lowe’s campaign asks Lowe’s to drop Flock. An Ulta spokesperson told the paper Flock readers are at fewer than 1% of more than 1,500 stores and are used to support criminal investigations, especially organized retail theft. This is retailer pressure, not a city cancel vote.
Click2Houston reported that Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo called for a special commissioners-court meeting on the county’s Flock contract and asked to pause the program until privacy and oversight clauses are added. County commissioners renewed the deal May 28, 2026, through June 2027, at about $869,000. Hidalgo abstained on that vote. Cameras stay unless court later votes to pause or cancel. Distinct from Magnolia’s non-renewal in the same story (CAN-2026-184).
KPRC 2 / Click2Houston reported that Magnolia Police Chief Kyle Montgomery will not renew the city’s Flock contract when it expires in October 2026. He cited privacy, a tight budget, and limited use in a low-crime city. He said he cannot tell residents the company is doing nothing with data on the back end. Magnolia does not own the cameras; Flock is to retrieve them after the term ends. He said the department had no known local misuse. Sen. Kolkhorst later cited the same non-renewal in her ALPR-ban call (writeup).
The Guardian published a September 5, 2026 roundup of cities, states, and members of Congress pulling back from Flock-style plate readers over privacy, data sharing, and alleged officer misuse. It sits with this site’s earlier ABC News national roundup. The piece is commentary and recap, not a new municipal vote.
WOSU reported that Mayor Andrew Ginther paused Columbus police use of Flock on September 3, 2026. On September 4 the city began covering the 65 municipal cameras. The city contract still runs to December. Council has not voted to terminate. Neighboring, campus, and ODOT cameras are separate.
WOSU also covered the August 10, 2026 City Council hearing, which ran about six hours. An earlier audit found the city’s network was searched about 15,000 times for immigration-related queries, with none directly from ICE in that reporting. Police defended the cameras and said newer policy would block some outside use. Public comment ran heavily toward removal. Council did not vote that night.
Developments
: City begins covering 65 Flock cameras after the mayor’s pause.
: Mayor pauses police use of Flock. Contract still runs to December.
Community Impact reported that Leander City Council on September 3, 2026, instructed staff to discontinue police use of 14 Flock cameras after more than an hour of public comment. A city spokesperson said council decided to stop funding the contract. Police are no longer using Flock cameras or Flock data.
El Paso Matters reported September 3, 2026 that Police Chief Peter Pacillas said the department halted use of state-funded license-plate readers after Gov. Greg Abbott’s order pausing state Flock funding (writeup). Cameras remain installed. The city may seek other money to restart. A spokesman said the halt does not mean an immediate take-down. This is a funding pause, not a full El Paso Flock exit. Dallas made a similar partial cut (CAN-2026-160).
Boston.com and WCVB reported September 1, 2026 that four more Massachusetts towns moved on Flock. Abington’s police chief said the department will end its agreement and have cameras removed. That is Abington, Massachusetts, not Abington Township, Pennsylvania (CAN-2026-112). Ayer’s Select Board voted unanimously August 31 to disable and remove cameras and terminate the contract immediately. Groton’s town manager and police chief said they will terminate the current contract; a working group may still recommend some form of plate reader at the Spring 2027 Town Meeting. Southbridge Police paused use pending public discussion. Pause is not a confirmed terminate.
Cardinal News reported September 3, 2026 that a week of Southwest and Southside Virginia exits landed on top of summer cancellations already on this page (Christiansburg, Henry County, Harrisonburg, Elkton). WDBJ reported September 1 that Wythe County Sheriff Anthony Cline is ending the sheriff’s office contract and removing four cameras, citing privacy and constitutional concerns. Appomattox County Sheriff Robert Richardson and Campbell County Sheriff Whit Clark announced terminations. Wytheville Police Chief Joel Hash suspended the town’s system. Charlotte County paused. The Montgomery, Amherst, and Bedford county sheriff’s offices said they would stop using Flock while they review policies or what they called discrepancies with the company. Those three are pauses, not confirmed cancels. Lynchburg’s council vote is a separate writeup (CAN-2026-163).
WSET added Bland County (stopped July 11; Sheriff Jason Ramsey said a work order is in to remove the cameras), Carroll County (contract expired in July and was not renewed; Sheriff Kevin Kemp), Giles County (terminated Aug. 26), and Halifax County (paused Aug. 28). That Carroll County is Virginia, not another state’s Carroll. This site keeps WSLS’s Lynchburg 6–0 count; Vice Mayor Curt Diemer was absent. Rocktown Now reported September 9 that Bridgewater voted unanimously September 8 to terminate and remove five cameras (writeup).
Developments
: Rocktown Now reports Bridgewater voted unanimously September 8 to terminate Flock and remove five cameras (writeup).
: WSET lists Bland, Carroll, Giles, and Halifax with the earlier Southwest and Southside exits.
: Cardinal News and WDBJ report Wythe, Appomattox, Campbell, Wytheville, Charlotte, Montgomery, Amherst, and Bedford.
Sourcescardinalnews.orgwdbj7.comwset.comCAN-2026-164 (Wythe County), CAN-2026-165 (Wytheville), CAN-2026-166 (Appomattox), CAN-2026-167 (Campbell County VA), CAN-2026-168 (Charlotte County), CAN-2026-169 (Montgomery County VA), CAN-2026-170 (Amherst), CAN-2026-171 (Bedford County VA), CAN-2026-177 (Bland), CAN-2026-178 (Carroll County VA), CAN-2026-179 (Giles), CAN-2026-180 (Halifax) in the cancellations table
WSLS reported that Lynchburg City Council voted 6–0 on September 3, 2026 to start ending the city’s Flock contract. Vice Mayor Curt Diemer was absent. Council member Chris Faraldi said the resolution does one thing: it empowers the city manager to give notice that Flock will no longer be in Lynchburg, at the end of the contract terms. Cardinal News put 15 Flock cameras and 54 Flock gunshot detectors on that 2023 contract. The cameras have been offline since August 19. Council planned a September 8 vote on a take-down date and how to avoid a possible about $35,000 early-termination fee. Faraldi said the latest the technology would come down is May. This is a contract-end vote, not a confirmed hardware pull. Earlier coverage: August 18 warrant-rule debate.
On September 2, 2026, Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Eric Burlison (R-MO) introduced H.R. 10221, the Flock-Off Act. Per Massie’s press release, the bill would bar federal funds from buying, installing, maintaining, operating, or upgrading automated license plate readers and biometric surveillance cameras, including cloud and data-sharing contracts. Federally funded systems would have to stop within 180 days. Toll cameras and readers within one mile of the northern or southern border used for unlawful-entry, trafficking, or drug-smuggling work would be excepted. Original cosponsors are Reps. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), Paul Gosar (R-AZ), Ro Khanna (D-CA), Chip Roy (R-TX), and Victoria Spartz (R-IN). Newsweek quoted Massie telling WHAS11 the measure would not ban Flock cameras. It would block federal money for them. Even if it passed, it would not by itself take down cameras a city pays for locally, including Crossville’s Falcons. This is an introduced House bill, not law. July tease: Massie bill tease.
KBTX reported that State Sen. Lois W. Kolkhorst (R) is calling for a ban on automated license plate readers, arguing Flock-style networks threaten Fourth Amendment protections. In a Facebook post titled “Get the Flock Out of Texas!,” she said the Texas Senate will take up the issue when the 90th Legislature convenes in January and that colleagues are discussing an outright ALPR ban. She cited Magnolia’s non-renewal (CAN-2026-184) and linked the debate to Gov. Abbott’s state funding pause (writeup). This is a legislative call, not a statewide camera pull.
FOX6 Milwaukee reported September 2, 2026 that Kenosha Police is terminating its Flock Safety contract one year early and moving to Axon Outpost license-plate cameras under a broader roughly $14.6 million Axon technology deal (about 31 Outpost readers plus body cameras, Tasers, and other gear). Police Chief Patrick Patton cited data-sharing, data-security, and undisclosed speed/movement tracking concerns. Kenosha PD said it found no local officer misuse of Flock. Axon sharing is planned for Wisconsin agencies and possibly neighboring Lake County, Illinois—not Flock’s nationwide network. This is a vendor swap, not a ban on plate readers.
KERA and KRLD reported that Dallas Police announced September 1, 2026 that 321 Flock cameras supported by affected Texas state grant funding will be canceled effective September 15 after Gov. Greg Abbott’s order pausing state agency Flock funding (writeup). DPD said more than 300 other Flock cameras funded by the city or federal grants will keep operating. City Council had approved a three-year, about $5.7 million Flock contract in May 2025, with nearly $1.7 million tied to Motor Vehicle Crime Prevention Authority grant money. This is a partial pull, not a full Dallas Flock exit. ZeroHedge and other outlets also covered the announcement.
KXXV and US105 reported that Robinson City Council voted unanimously September 1, 2026 not to renew the city’s Flock Safety contract after a one-year trial. Coverage put 11 cameras in the city. The police chief said the department deactivated Flock access after the vote. Mayor Greg May said the decision tracked resident opposition and would likely have happened even without Abbott’s state funding pause. Leadership left open future technology with stronger privacy safeguards.
NBC10 Philadelphia and Axios Philadelphia reported that Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) said he would welcome bipartisan legislation banning Flock cameras across Pennsylvania. Speaking August 28, 2026, in Montgomery County, he said the cameras are “not something in the public interest” and that Pennsylvania State Police do not use them. Lawmakers in both parties have floated bans or limits; no statewide ban has passed.
ABC News published a September 1, 2026 roundup of the national push against Flock-style ALPRs. It cited Politico’s count of more than 50 cities and counties canceling or deactivating readers so far in 2026, Florida’s highway permit revocation, Texas’s state funding pause, Pennsylvania Gov. Shapiro’s openness to a ban, and Sen. Hawley’s Senate probe. ACLU analyst Jay Stanley called it the biggest grassroots privacy backlash he has seen in more than 20 years. The piece also notes officer job-loss cases already on this page, including Savannah.
After Florida DOT revoked ALPR permits on state highway rights-of-way on August 31, 2026 (FDOT writeup), Northeast Florida agencies moved fast. Jacksonville Today and News4JAX reported the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office would discontinue license plate readers countywide. Clay County announced roadway removals. Putnam County said its 18 readers would come down. Action News Jax put 34 Nassau County Flock cameras in the removal window and covered the county-by-county wave.
WESH reported that Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood shut license plate readers down countywide on August 31, 2026 after Florida DOT’s state-road memo. WFTV and FOX 35 Orlando reported Oviedo City Council directing staff not to fund Flock into the next fiscal year and to begin taking cameras down, while Titusville Police temporarily paused its Flock ALPR program. See also Panhandle exits under Franklin County and FDOT order.
WOSU reported September 1, 2026 that Worthington City Schools is ending its Flock contract early and removing devices. Superintendent Trent Bowers said limited benefits were not worth the potential loss of public trust. Cameras at four school sites were mainly funded by an Ohio School Safety Grant; Bowers said the early cancel would not cost extra money and that the cameras never shared data outside the district. Olentangy Local Schools confirmed it quietly canceled its Flock contract during the summer and that cameras were set to be removed soon.
The Yampa Valley Bugle reported that Routt County Sheriff Doug Scherar intends to cancel the sheriff’s Flock contract after audit logs showed the county’s cameras were included in more than eight million searches by thousands of agencies from Jan. 1, 2025 to Aug. 17, 2026. The office believed sharing was limited to Colorado but had been opted into National Lookup; it later opted out. Scherar said he still trusts plate-reader technology but does not trust Flock, and planned to meet the county attorney on how to cancel. Separate city exit: Steamboat Springs.
Steamboat Pilot reported that Police Chief Mark Beckett ordered the city’s six fixed Flock cameras deactivated immediately after a contentious August 25, 2026 public forum on privacy. A city release said Steamboat Springs plans to end its Flock contract. Council was set to give further direction at a September 8 work session. Neighboring Routt County later moved to cancel its separate sheriff contract.
FOX19 reported August 27, 2026, that Erlanger did not renew its Flock contract. Four cameras near Holly Lane are already down. A fifth camera on Commonwealth is still up but inactive, and officers no longer have access, while the city waits on Flock to remove the hardware. Neighbor: Independence.
A proposed class action summarized by ClassAction.org (Schulte v. Flock Group Inc.) alleges that Flock’s networked ALPR system allows current and former law enforcement users to run personal, non-work plate searches and that the company has not stopped that misuse. The filing cites Washington Post reporting on dozens of alleged ALPR misuse cases and seeks a nationwide class of people whose plates were collected since January 1, 2024. These are allegations in a civil complaint, not findings. Related constitutional suits already on this page include San Jose / Institute for Justice.
The Texas Tribune reported August 28, 2026 that Gov. Greg Abbott ordered all state agencies Thursday night to pause funding for Flock cameras. His spokesman confirmed the order Friday: Texas agency money cannot be used for Flock cameras. The spokesman also said most city Flock funding still comes from the federal government. This is a state-funding freeze, not a statewide camera pull. Local contracts and existing cameras stay unless a city or county ends them.
A companion Tribune investigation the same day said a 2023 $1 auto-insurance fee, collected through the Motor Vehicle Crime Prevention Authority, has gone toward at least $30 million and about 3,200 Flock cameras since 2023. About 1,200 are being installed by the Department of Public Safety under a three-year, $15.9 million contract with that authority. Abbott, quoted in a radio interview, said cameras are “being reduced dramatically” and will have to be used responsibly “if they’re used at all.” He pointed to Texas city exits, including Lufkin. Flock said it supports “thoughtful legislation” with privacy guardrails. Officials writeup: Greg Abbott. Recent Texas city exits include Dallas (321 grant cameras canceling Sept. 15; 300+ stay), Robinson, Pflugerville, and Kendall County.
Ars Technica reported that Oakland-based Secure Justice has recorded 214 cities and counties dropping Flock since 2021. An August 28 update put 93 of those exits in August 2026 alone, about three localities a day. The piece named places from Lansing, Michigan, to Pflugerville, Texas. Flock spokesperson Courtney Terlecki told Ars that 2026 partnerships still outpace nonrenewals by about 10 to 1, and that not every community will make the same decision.
On August 26, 2026, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), chair of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism, announced a formal investigation into Flock Safety’s collection, retention, and dissemination of AI camera data. His press release and a letter to CEO Garrett Langley demand documents no later than September 8, 2026, including known or suspected misuse since 2021, accuracy and security files, government contracts, revenue sources, and how driver data may be stored or sold. Hawley wrote that Flock’s network now spans more than 120,000 cameras and billions of monthly scans, and that “Congress never authorized the network your industry has built.” Axios reported the probe as the highest-level federal backlash to date. Flock told Axios it received the letter and would respond. Officials writeup: Josh Hawley. See also Langley on Fox / Sanders and Burchett and Burchett’s H.R. 9800.
On August 31, 2026, Florida Department of Transportation Chief Operating Officer Will Watts issued Engineering and Operations Memorandum No. 26-01 revoking all permits for automated license plate readers on state highway rights-of-way. NBC News and Florida Politics reported local agencies have 30 days to remove Flock, Axon, and other brands; FDOT may remove remaining devices itself and will stop approving new installs. WFTV and WGCU quoted the memo citing misuse reports, privacy concerns, and the rapid spread of roadside surveillance. Business Insider said the order follows Gov. Ron DeSantis’s push after his August 26 remarks (writeup). News4JAX reported the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office will halt readers countywide and Clay County will remove all units from county roadways. WESH reported Volusia, Brevard, Seminole, and Osceola agencies suspending or reviewing programs beyond the state minimum; WESH quoted Volusia Sheriff Mike Chitwood shutting readers down countywide. WCJB reported Putnam and Bradford sheriffs disconnecting readers. NBC 6 South Florida and Local 10 covered South Florida fallout. Action News Jax published a county-by-county list. FOX 35 Orlando and ClickOrlando reported Central Florida cities including Oviedo voting to pull leased cameras after the memo. Private-property readers and most local-right-of-way cameras DeSantis said sit outside FDOT control. See Franklin County and DeSantis remarks. Officials writeup: Ron DeSantis.
At an August 26, 2026 event at Florida International University in Miami, Gov. Ron DeSantis said automated license plate readers—including Flock and other vendors—have grown “out of control” and risk turning Florida into a “surveillance state.” Florida Politics and local TV coverage quote DeSantis saying the tools moved from tolling uses into broad criminal surveillance, mostly at local police departments and sheriff’s offices. He said he supports law enforcement but does not want mass tracking of ordinary Floridians, urged voters to press candidates on the issue, and said fixes must come from the Legislature—not the governor’s office alone. DeSantis pointed to New Hampshire’s roadside-reader limits and short data-retention rules as a possible model, and tied the issue to his stalled “AI Bill of Rights” package. Officials writeup: Ron DeSantis. GovTech reported at least 100 Florida agencies use ALPR cameras statewide.
In August 2026, Ohio lawmakers from both chambers drafted Flock / ALPR legislation after local cancel fights and misuse reports. Sen. Al Cutrona (R-Canfield) told the Columbus Dispatch he will introduce a bill barring sale or sharing of plate-reader data with third parties, requiring deletion after 10 days, and making personal misuse a fourth-degree felony. Rep. Levi Dean (R-Xenia) told The Statehouse News Bureau he is drafting a separate measure that would require warrants for government ALPR searches and would ban AI-assisted government surveillance cameras, while still allowing private cameras with limits on government use of their data. Both sponsors said Flock’s voluntary policy changes are not enough. Officials writeups: Al Cutrona, Levi Dean. See also Columbus council hearing and Fort Wayne cancel.
AL.com reported in August 2026 that Alabama legislators are preparing bills to restrict or ban Flock Safety cameras after privacy backlash and in-state misuse cases, including officer discipline in Moody and Springville. Sen. Arthur Orr (R-Decatur) told AL.com the status quo on more than 2,800 Flock cameras is “totally unacceptable” and that he plans to file statewide guardrail legislation after the Nov. 3 general election, with a ban still on the table. Sen. Robert Stewart (D-Selma) later told WSFA he wants to see change before the 2027 session. Sheriff association leaders defended the tools for missing-person and crime work while acknowledging agency discipline when violations occur. Flock’s mandatory audit tool and seven-day default retention change are noted but framed as insufficient without statute. Officials writeups: Arthur Orr, Robert Stewart. See also Moody / Springville.
WKAR reported that Lansing City Council voted 7–1 on August 24, 2026 to ask Mayor Andy Schor and the Lansing Police Department to end existing Flock contracts and not sign a new plate-reader deal until the city runs a public privacy review. Council President Peter Spadafore was the no vote. Coverage put about 26 cameras in use. The city runs a strong-mayor system, so the resolution does not cancel the contract by itself. Blue Water Healthy Living reported that a councilmember is working with the city attorney on whether a binding ordinance is possible. Cameras stay unless the administration ends the deal.
On August 18, 2026, Kettering University student Joshua Tewolde sued Genesee County in circuit court after the county denied key records from a Michigan FOIA request about the sheriff’s Flock Safety cameras. Michigan Advance and mlive.com report that Tewolde asked for the county contract, camera locations, audit logs, and scans of his own plate. The county released part of the contract but withheld locations, logs, and his vehicle reads, claiming the data belongs to Flock rather than the public body. The county’s contract and Flock’s public statements both say the customer owns the data. The Mackinac Center Legal Foundation brought the suit to force release under FOIA. Coverage notes the sheriff signed a 2022 deal for 10 readers; commissioners later added warrant language before approving 10 more cameras amid federal-access concerns. The case targets transparency, not whether the county should keep Flock.
The Clearwater County Sheriff’s Office announced July 23, 2026 that it would not renew Flock after nine months, with the deal set to expire September 22, KHQ reported. Sheriff John Smith said the cameras did not show enough operational value. Flock later told the office the two-year contract could not be cancelled. A county update and follow-up KHQ report said County Prosecutor E. Clayne Tyler opined the second installment is void and unenforceable under Idaho law on automatic extensions, and that a sheriff cannot bind the county to that debt. Tyler’s letter is a legal opinion, not a court judgment. Hardware-removal timing was not fully published.
Developments
: KHQ reports the prosecutor’s opinion that year two is void after Flock disputed an early exit.
: Sheriff announces non-renewal; contract described as expiring Sept. 22.
Santa Barbara’s Flock contract expired August 23, 2026 after staff opted not to renew, the New York Post reported. The city had used 12 cameras since late 2023. At the August 25 council meeting, KEYT reported, staff recommended 12 Verkada readers that would keep data under city control instead of a shared network. Council delayed that decision and ordered an ALPR policy review. Coverage said the city currently has no automated license plate cameras running. Santa Barbara County Sheriff Flock cameras are a separate contract and were not ended by this vote. Shopping Verkada after dropping Flock is still mass plate scanning. See Not just Flock.
Developments
: Post reports the city currently has no ALPRs operating after the expire.
: Council delays a Verkada replacement and orders an ALPR policy review.
: City Flock contract expires after staff opted not to renew.
Boston.com and WCVB reported that Auburn, Massachusetts, Police said it severed its Flock relationship over a contractual defect and deactivated all cameras in town. Removal timetable was not published. Distinct from Auburn, New York (CAN-2026-118).
KJZZ reported August 26, 2026 that Cave Creek officials said Flock cameras were removed after one was stolen, and that the town terminated its Flock contract after concluding local privacy rules would not apply to a network built for multi-agency data sharing. ABC15 also reported Cave Creek ending the program alongside Tempe’s shutdown, and that Town Council would formally address the termination at its September 1, 2026 meeting. Exact prior camera count was not published.
Bay News 9 reported August 26, 2026 that Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco told commissioners he is terminating the Dec. 10, 2024 interlocal agreement for license-plate detection systems in county rights-of-way, effective Sept. 30, 2026. Nocco said Aug. 11 and Aug. 25 board discussions showed a majority no longer supported the deal the commission had passed unanimously. He objected to the exit and said the office’s policies already limited retention and search use. The county-ROW cutoff does not cover private CDD, HOA, or retail readers, or FDOT state-ROW cameras. Sheriff camera count for the terminated agreement was not published.
Developments
: Sheriff notifies commissioners the county right-of-way ALPR agreement ends Sept. 30. Private and FDOT cameras stay. Bay News 9.
: Tampa Bay 28 reported Undersheriff Chase Daniels saying some sheriff Flock ALPRs would be replaced with Axon (about $50,000 cheaper; same vendor already on body cams). The story said the change was not expected to add cameras and put countywide private-plus-agency ALPRs around 170. This site has not confirmed whether any Axon plate readers actually replaced Flock after the Aug. 26 county-ROW termination. Swapping Flock for Axon is still mass plate scanning. See Not just Flock.
KOAT reported that the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office ended its contracts with Flock. Hardware-removal timing was not fully published in the cited coverage.
CBS Austin reported that Pflugerville City Council on August 25, 2026 cut ties with Flock and denied a new agreement after a public-records review found hundreds of unauthorized agencies with access beyond approved partners. Officials had already shut down and covered about 28 city Flock cameras hours before the meeting. Austin American-Statesman reported August 26 that employees kept covering cameras, that the city disabled Flock system access, and that Pflugerville ISD said it would halt Flock use on campuses and at Pfield stadium. Councilmembers said there is no rush to bring in a replacement. Community Impact also covered the vote to end the contract.
Developments
: Statesman reports cameras still being covered, city Flock access disabled, and Pflugerville ISD disabling campus and stadium cameras.
: Council unanimously ends the Flock relationship; about 28 city cameras already covered/shut off before the vote.
Boston.com and WCVB reported that Douglas Police announced immediate deactivation of all Flock cameras, citing a divisive atmosphere despite investigative use. Coverage also noted an alleged vehicle striking a Flock camera. Hardware removal timetable was not published.
AZFamily reported August 26, 2026 that Tempe turned off its Flock license-plate readers, will end its contract with the company, and will not seek another ALPR vendor. The city said about 33 cameras are no longer collecting plate data; residents may still see the hardware until Flock removes it. Mayor Corey Woods said the cameras helped police but “the risk of misuse is too great.” ABC15 reported the same shutdown and that Tempe is not looking for a replacement system.
Developments
: City turns the system off, ends the Flock contract, and says it will not replace ALPRs. Hardware removal timetable not published.
: Tempe cuts automatic Flock data sharing and launches a transparency portal after nearby Valley misuse reports. Cameras still ran then. AZFamily.
Boston.com reported August 26, 2026 that Bellingham Police Chief Kenneth Fitzgerald said the department will not renew Flock after the contract expires Sept. 4, 2026, citing pricing and transparency. Coverage also noted FreeForm search concerns. This is Bellingham, Massachusetts—not Bellingham, Washington.
JAM Broadcasting reported that Kendall County Commissioners Court voted 5–0 on August 25, 2026 not to renew Flock. Coverage put about 57 cameras on roadways and neighborhood entrances; the current contract expires Sept. 30, 2026. Sheriff Al Auxier had asked for another year. Reporting cited privacy, trust, and a large petition against the system. A 30-day notice for hardware removal follows the end date; equipment is non-operational during removal per local coverage.
On August 31, 2026, Hamilton County Sheriff Austin Garrett directed staff to begin pausing the sheriff’s office Flock License Plate Recognition and Motorola LPR programs. NewsChannel9 reported Garrett said the decision followed weeks of deliberation and that the primary factor was concern about public data and potential misuse of what is captured. The sheriff’s office oversees about 70 cameras across Hamilton County. Garrett said he still believes in LPR technology but ordered command staff to work through the concerns before resuming. Chattanoogan.com and WDEF carried the same sheriff’s statement. Chattanooga city police, Collegedale, and private Flock cameras are separate. Full Tennessee writeup: Hamilton County pause.
WJHG reported September 1, 2026 that Franklin County Sheriff A.J. Smith deactivated about 26 leased Flock cameras effective immediately after Gov. Ron DeSantis pushed to remove plate readers from state roadways and FDOT revoked ALPR permits within 30 days. WJHG said most county cameras were on state roads; the office also shut off county right-of-way units Smith said Flock owns and the county leased. Get The Coast and Mid Bay News reported Okaloosa Sheriff Eric Aden will remove all Flock units from state and county roads. WJHG and WJHG (Calhoun) reported Liberty County ending its contract and Calhoun County ceasing use of six state-funded cameras Florida operates. Walton commissioners had already voted August 25 to remove readers from county rights-of-way (WEAR TV, Mid Bay News); roughly 106 Walton cameras include state and city roads outside that vote. Private-property Flock cameras are not covered by the state memo. See FDOT removal order and DeSantis remarks.
WOWO reported that Fort Wayne City Council unanimously voted August 25, 2026 against renewing the city’s Flock license-plate reader contract after weeks of debate over privacy, transparency, and public safety. Council members described the system as mass surveillance and called for stronger guardrails if similar technology returns. The Fort Wayne Police Department said it respects the vote and will evaluate next steps. Camera count was not published in the initial coverage.
Developments
: WBOI reported the contract is terminated, the 36 cameras are offline, and police contacted Flock about pending removal.
WLWT reported August 31, 2026, that Independence deactivated its Flock cameras a week after Mayor Chris Reinersman announced they would come down. Poles stay until Flock removes the hardware. WCPO reported the mayor’s notice after an August 17 meeting. Cited stories disagree on how many cameras the city had, so this page does not state a count. This is a removal order and deactivation, not a confirmed vendor pickup. Neighbor: Erlanger.
WLOS reported that Asheville City Council voted 5–2 on August 25, 2026 to authorize the city manager to terminate the city’s Flock contract. The resolution suspends access, searching, and sharing of Flock data and directs removal of the 11 city cameras. Carolina Public Press reported the same vote and that HOA, school, and other Buncombe County Flock cameras outside the city contract remain. Axon plate readers are still discussed as a possible replacement. Ending Flock while shopping Axon is a vendor swap, not a warrant requirement. See Not just Flock.
Developments
: Council votes 5–2 to authorize termination, suspend Flock access/search/sharing, and remove 11 city cameras.
: BPR reported the Tuesday vote was still on; APD and some council members remained open to Axon or another plate-reader vendor.
: Mayor Esther Manheimer asks council to authorize termination. WLOS reported a pause would not let the city remove the cameras.
WSLS reported that Christiansburg Town Council voted 6–0 on August 25, 2026 to terminate its Flock contract and remove cameras after public comment. Police Chief Chris Ramsey told council the system is an investigative tool. Council members said the issue was data collection, not distrust of local officers. The police department owns a small number of Flock cameras; private-business cameras in town may remain. Exact city camera count and removal timetable were not published.
KTRE quoted Police Chief Travis Brazil saying the department suspended Flock cameras on August 20, 2026 after a public-records request triggered an audit. WNEM / Gray News reported that an officer from Lufkin PD was indicted on charges of tampering with governmental records, abuse of official capacity, and misuse of official information, and was booked August 20, 2026 on a $700,000 bond. The same reporting said the audit alleged more than 10,000 searches of one plate from June 2024 to December 2025. The officer is not named here. An indictment is not a finding of guilt. No contract end date or hardware-removal timetable was published. This is a suspend, not a reported contract termination.
Boston.com reported August 23, 2026 that East Bridgewater Police Chief Michael Jenkins announced Friday that the department will end its Flock contract and remove the one camera already installed. Four cameras had been planned; the system was not fully operational. After an August 10 public forum, Jenkins said resident concerns outweighed the benefits the town expected. See also Grafton the same day.
Boston.com reported August 23, 2026 that Grafton Police Chief Neil Minardi announced Friday that Grafton will discontinue Flock cameras. He cited concerns raised by residents and “vandalism and theft involving these devices.” Camera count was not published. See also East Bridgewater the same day and Hopkinton earlier that week.
Fox News interviewed Flock CEO Garrett Langley on Saturday, August 22, 2026, on “Saturday in America.” Langley told host Kayleigh McEnany the country should stop treating privacy and safety as a choice: “When people talk about just one of these, privacy or safety, they’re prioritizing the wrong thing, and what we have to prioritize as a country is compromise.” He said Flock and similar tools too often have “no regulation” and “no accountability,” and that Flock thinks that is wrong. He said the company wants auditing and wants state regulators to spend less energy banning the cameras and more energy holding police departments accountable.
That is the vendor’s ask: keep the cameras, add rules.
On August 18, Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont posted on X: “STOP AI MASS SURVEILLANCE. STOP FLOCK.” He wrote that Flock has nearly 100,000 cameras and that going to the doctor or dropping a kid at school is something Flock knows. Two days later, the Washington Times reported that no bill in Congress would ban the cameras nationwide. Sanders has not filed a Senate ban bill in that reporting. Tennessee Republican Rep. Tim Burchett already introduced H.R. 9800 to cut federal money for Flock-style systems. The overlap still matters here: a Vermont independent and an East Tennessee Republican are both telling Washington these cameras have gone too far.
Langley cited Flock’s own figures: more than a million investigations and more than 10,000 missing people located. Cities keep cancelling anyway. Crossville’s lease is with that same vendor. On August 26, 2026, Sen. Josh Hawley opened a Senate Judiciary subcommittee investigation with a document deadline of September 8 (Hawley probe writeup). See also the CEO dossier and Burchett’s bill.
The Daily Chronicle reported that Town of Cortland Mayor Mark Pietrowski directed police on August 21, 2026 to cancel the town’s Flock contract for five license-plate reader cameras. A work order asks Flock to remove the cameras and poles. He cited resident privacy concerns and third-party data use the town does not control, and said savings would help upgrade body and car cameras. Officials also approved a new Axon body-worn and in-car camera contract. The mayor said stationary pole LPRs end and that vehicle LPR ability would stay under Cortland PD control without third-party Flock involvement. This is Cortland, Illinois, not Cortland, New York.
KY3 reported August 21, 2026 that Willard Police Chief Tom McClain said the city’s Flock Safety contract will not be renewed after community feedback. He said the department will order the cameras removed. Camera count and the contract end date were not published.
Gadget Review reported August 21, 2026 that Flock dropped its public pledge that cameras “are not used to enforce traffic violations such as speeding, running red lights, or other moving violations.” Streetsblog USA dated that language removal to after December 2, 2025. Weeks later, 404 Media obtained a December 26, 2025 Georgia State Patrol citation whose notes said “CAPTURED ON FLOCK CAMERA 31 MM 1 HOLDING PHONE IN LEFT HAND.” No traffic stop. Georgia State Patrol called it a rare case; the rider said the ticket was dropped in court. The Electronic Frontier Foundation called the pattern license-plate-reader mission creep. Gadget Review also reports speed-camera vendors feeding Flock’s cloud under Flock Wing License deals and sequential Flock frames used to estimate speed after the fact. Crossville has not published whether traffic-ticket use is enabled locally. Chief Jessie Brooks’ 2022 pitch said the cameras were not red-light ticket devices.
KXII reported that Marietta City Council voted Thursday night, August 20, 2026, to cancel its Flock contract after residents packed a special meeting on whether five temporary cameras would stay. Police Chief Brett Harris opened by asking council to keep them. About an hour in, while a Flock representative was on Zoom, Harris told council he had just learned the company keeps the captures after the city’s 30-day access ends. He said that was what residents had come to complain about. Council voted to cancel. Harris said the feeds would shut off immediately and Flock would remove the hardware soon after. KTEN reported the same night that he also said the city would later look at other sensors the community would support. This is Love County, Oklahoma, not Marietta, Georgia.
Gadget Review reported August 21, 2026 that flocksafety.com is excluded from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine across the domain and subdomains, with the exclusion attributed to a request from the site owners. The company sells permanent plate and travel records while making its own public pages harder to timestamp independently. Gadget Review says that makes it harder to verify shifting contract and marketing language, and recommends Wayback archivability as a procurement check. Crossville should keep dated copies of every Flock term page it relies on. See also the Flock dossier.
WRVO reported that Auburn City Council voted Thursday night, August 20, 2026, to end a four-year, about $120,000 Flock contract. The resolution requires a 30-day written notice. After that, city departments must stop using the cameras and databases. Councilor Terry Cuddy cited privacy. Councilor Craig Diego voted yes because of how the grant was procured and said he had wanted Flock to speak. Council also directed staff to write an ALPR policy before any future contract. FingerLakes1 reported the roll call as 5–0. Camera count was not published. Not Auburn, Alabama, or Auburn, Washington.
Developments
— Council votes to terminate. Use stops after 30-day written notice. Staff must draft an ALPR policy before any future contract.
— Council directed staff to prepare a terminate resolution. Cameras stayed on until the Aug. 20 vote.
The Standard-Times / SouthCoast Today reported August 20, 2026 that New Bedford’s Flock system has been offline since August 11 and will stay down. Chief Jason Thody said an August 19 statement that a department audit found “additional outliers and anomalies.” He said many of those have already been checked as legitimate police use and others still need review. The cameras stay off until the audit and safeguard review finish. He said any reinstatement would come only after talks with elected officials, the Bristol County District Attorney’s Office, and the city solicitor.
Developments
— Chief recommends firing two officers after alleged personal lookups. Hearings pending. Cameras stay offline. Misuse writeup.
— Chief says the system stays offline pending the audit, a safeguard review, and talks with the DA, solicitor, and elected officials.
— Temporary suspend after an audit of search outliers. Boston.com.
KRCGTV reported August 20, 2026 that Pulaski County Sheriff Stacy L. Ball will discontinue Flock license-plate cameras. After a community forum in Waynesville on August 19, Ball said the office will not renew and will not replace Flock with Axon. KRCGTV said he posted that removal had begun. Camera count and the exact contract end date were not published.
WJHL (via Yahoo) reported that the Sullivan County Commission voted 18–0 on August 20, 2026 not to renew the county’s Flock contract. The resolution was amended to say Flock cameras would not be used within the county. It does not apply to Kingsport or Bristol police cameras. The contract ends in January 2027. Sheriff Jeffrey Cassidy had already suspended the sheriff’s office’s 10 cameras on August 17, WVLT reported, and asked for a referendum; elections administrator Jason Booher told WJHL the commission cannot put that on the ballot. Nearby and private Flock can continue. Tennessee writeup.
Developments
— County Commission votes 18–0 not to renew; cameras stay off county use through the January 2027 contract end. Kingsport and Bristol PD are excluded.
— Sheriff Cassidy suspends the office’s 10 Flock cameras and asks for a public vote.
FOX 4 reported that Wylie became another North Texas city to end Flock camera use. Camera count and hardware-removal timing were not fully published in the cited coverage.
St. Louis Public Radio reported August 20, 2026 that Police Chief Kurt Frisz discontinued Flock after a civilian employee admitted personal, non-law-enforcement searches. The department bagged 28 cameras (20 in county parks, 8 on streets) for Flock to pick up. KCUR confirmed the same exit. This is not an exit from license-plate readers: the department already runs other ALPRs and said it will replace the 28 Flock units. Distinct from St. Charles, Illinois, and St. Charles Parish, Louisiana. See the misuse writeup (FLK-2026-056).
The Hopkinton Independent reported August 20, 2026 that the town terminated its Flock contract immediately after counsel found statutory deficiencies that make the agreement unlawful under Massachusetts procurement law. Town Manager Elaine Lazarus said municipal contracts have to meet those standards. The town asked Flock to turn the two cameras off as soon as possible and remove them by September 30. Two more cameras had been planned. WHDH confirmed the same day. The town said it will review Hopkinton PD technology, including license-plate readers.
WVXU reported August 19, 2026 that Oxford City Council voted 6–1 Tuesday night to terminate the police department’s Flock contract. Councilmember Bill Snavely, who offered the legislation, said the worry was how other agencies would use shared data. The council considered a Police Community Relations Review Commission recommendation to keep the contract with tighter sharing, then followed resident opposition. Police Chief John Jones was to notify Flock. About 30 people protested the same day in nearby Hamilton asking that city to cancel; Hamilton has not.
The Mountain Press / Roane County News reported August 19, 2026 that Kingston will not renew its Flock contract. City Manager David Bolling said the two cameras were a trial and that the benefit did not justify the cost. Mayor Tim Neal said the choice is financial: about $6,000 a year. The 2024 deal was $12,300 for two years and expires in September. Tennessee writeup.
WKRC / Local 12 reported August 19, 2026 that a Clermont County grand jury declined to indict Cody Morelock on felony charges after Union Township police accused him of destroying a Flock camera on June 13. The station said the felony case was dismissed. WLWT reported in July that he had been charged with vandalism and theft; police said the unit was leased by the Union Township Police Department. WKRC’s coverage does not say the township canceled Flock.
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The Philadelphia Inquirer reported August 19, 2026 that Abington Township Police is ending its Flock contracts over data-security concerns after thousands of the department’s searches appeared in public dumps. Lt. Joe Blei said one contract expired this month and the department will let the second expire in February 2028. Officials said they are negotiating with other vendors to replace Flock; a future contract would need township-commissioner approval. Deputy Chief Ed Quinn said the township has one permanent camera and a few portable units. Officials are shopping a replacement vendor, so this is not a clear exit from automated license-plate readers.
KWQC reported August 19, 2026 that Sheriff Josh Verscheure will end the Henry County Sheriff’s Office partnership with Flock on August 31. He cited public trust. The cameras arrived in 2024 and were funded with drug-seizure proceeds, not county tax dollars. Verscheure said the office saw no local misuse in two years and that Flock had helped investigations, but that data-privacy concerns outweighed continuing. Not the same county as the Virginia suspend (CAN-2026-105) or the Missouri non-renewal (CAN-2026-108).
WIRED reported August 19, 2026 that Flock Safety has built OS Investigate (formerly Nightshift), an AI system for police that can identify drivers and track vehicles by movement patterns, even though Flock has told the public its technology “cannot recognize, identify, or track individuals.” Reporters reconstructed the interface from code served on Flock login portals. Flock called it a separate product from the plate readers and said workflows may change before a wider release.
The Advocate reported August 18, 2026 that the Livingston Parish Council is considering an ordinance, introduced last week by Council Member Ryan Chavers, to prohibit privately owned Flock cameras and other automated license plate readers on roads the parish owns or maintains. It would not ban Flock in the parish.…
Business Insider reported August 18, 2026, from Garrett Langley’s appearance on the All-In podcast. Langley said Flock’s license-plate readers now account for just under half of “forward-looking revenue,” and that “Drones is probably our fastest growing business right now.” Flock’s Drone as First Responder product sends a docked aircraft to a 911 call before an officer. A spokesperson told BI the company has more than 200 DFR customers, police and private companies included, and is ramping U.S.-designed drones built in Georgia. The article puts Flock’s valuation at $8.4 billion, with cameras in more than 6,000 communities.
BI placed that pitch against the plate-reader record: its Roseville review found Flock misread plates in 71% of alerts checked. Flock told BI it had cut default plate-data retention from 30 days to 7, while existing customers can keep current “democratically approved” periods. Langley said in a video to BI that Flock is “finding bad cops and holding them accountable.” Crossville has not published whether any Flock drone product is in the live contract. See also the CEO dossier and DFR product notes.
The Boston Globe reported August 18, 2026 that Stow Police Chief Michael Sallese ended the department’s Flock relationship. The last remaining Flock camera came down in early August; two other ALPRs were removed earlier in 2026 after an effectiveness review. Police said they will evaluate safeguards before any future ALPR use.
LINK nky reported that after a packed August 17, 2026 council meeting, Mayor Greg Pohlgeers said Fort Mitchell would shut off and dismantle its five Flock devices immediately and would not renew. The 2024 contract was 24 months for about $34,000. Pohlgeers said public trust now outranks the “do more with less” pitch. FOX19 reported the overnight announcement on August 19. City Administrator Edwin King said staff would coordinate with Flock to end operations.
NR Today reported that Chief Brandon Sarti told Winston City Council on August 17, 2026 that the department had canceled Flock that day. The city ran eight cameras in Douglas County for about $24,000 a year, amid $215,000 in police budget cuts. Sarti said if residents paying the bill do not want the cameras, Winston is turning them off. Council also terminated proposed Resolution 26-1237, an Oregon DOT agreement that would have allowed ALPRs on Route 42.
FOX Carolina and the Post and Courier reported that Oconee County Council voted 4–1 on August 18, 2026 for first reading of a “Protection from Mass Surveillance” ordinance. It would bar county money and county property, including road rights-of-way, from supporting Flock-style systems, and could cut discretionary county funding to cities that keep them. Two more readings are required; the chairman scheduled the third reading and a public hearing for September 15.
KMBC reported August 18, 2026 that Gardner City Council agreed Monday night to shut the city’s Flock cameras immediately and not renew. Police confirmed they discontinued all city Flock units and notified the vendor the contract was canceled; some cameras were covered by Tuesday. Council member Kelly Johnson said the vote does not turn off Johnson County or state cameras nearby. Resident Bradley Steinmetz of No Flock in Gardner said more than 1,200 vendors had access through the system.
KCRG and the Des Moines Register reported that beginning August 17, 2026, Indianola Police deactivated its eight Flock cameras and cut outside-agency access. Chief Rob Hawkins said the technology helped solve cases but that privacy concerns deserve a pause. The program costs about $24,000 a year. Cameras remain installed pending coordination with Flock; unused data purges in 30 days. Waukee announced a non-renewal days earlier.
The Boston Globe reported August 18, 2026 that Gov. Dan McKee ordered Rhode Island State Police to run a 60-day review toward statewide ALPR standards. The pause on installing and activating new cameras applies to state use; he is asking cities and towns to freeze new installs during the review. State Police told the Globe they already run 24 readers, with 15 more scheduled this year. South Kingstown, Narragansett, and Glocester already ended Flock this summer.
WSLS reported August 18, 2026 that Lynchburg council members, including Chris Faraldi, Vice Mayor Curt Diemer, and Marty Misjuns, are pushing to require a warrant before Flock searches or to cancel the 2023 contract. Police say searches are logged and need a “valid investigative reason.” Faraldi said that is not a warrant. Council plans to take the issue up August 25. No cancel vote is in the coverage. Council later voted 6–0 on September 3 to start ending the contract: Lynchburg cancel writeup.
ABC 17 reported that Jefferson City Council voted August 17, 2026 to renew its Flock agreement through May 14, 2027 for $51,000. Ward 2 Councilman Cody Holt cast the only no vote and asked for a broader privacy and data-sharing discussion before the roll call. The cameras stay.
404 Media interviewed Norman Mayor Stephen Tyler Holman about why the city’s nine-member council rejected Flock after two company presentations in three years requested by police. Holman said privacy, 30-day retention, and who can access the database were deal-breakers, and that Flock pitched crime displacement…
The Herald-Citizen reported that Monterey’s Law Committee voted Monday night, August 17, 2026, to recommend replacing most of the town’s Flock cameras with Axon readers. Lt. Andrew Neff cited rising Flock cost and nationwide data sharing; he said Axon stores data in-house. The department wants to keep one Flock camera for the national share. The Board of Mayor and Aldermen has not finally approved the change. This is a Putnam County neighbor to Cumberland County. It is a vendor swap, not a privacy win: Axon still scans plates without a warrant, and they still want one Flock camera on the national share. See Not just Flock. Tennessee writeup.
On August 10, 2026, Reps. Tarik Khan (D-Philadelphia), Robert Leadbeter (R-Columbia), Jennifer O’Mara (D-Delaware), Napoleon Nelson (D-Montgomery), and Nate Davidson (D-Cumberland/Dauphin) announced plans to introduce statewide rules for automated license plate readers, including Flock. Per the House release and…
13ABC reported August 17, 2026 that Lucas County Commissioner Pete Gerken asked the sheriff to pause Flock until an independent audit, after a one-month review found more than 900,000 searches. Sheriff Mike Navarre refused and said the contract runs through 2029. Follow-up reporting found Houston Police was the top outside searcher of Lucas County’s Flock data in that window.
The San Francisco Chronicle reported August 17, 2026 that Brentwood reversed a permit letting the Shadow Lakes golf-course homeowners association run four Flock cameras at community gates. Officials said the permit was approved by mistake, under the belief the HOA was applying through the city’s existing police…
WSLS reported August 17, 2026 that the Henry County Sheriff’s Office suspended access to 14 Flock cameras and would begin dismantling them, after Sheriff Wayne Davis announced an immediate access freeze on August 14. The cameras were installed in 2023 with a Virginia DCJS grant (10 fixed, 4 mobile). Davis cited privacy, constitutional concerns, and national misuse cases. The contract still runs through August 2028; Davis said he would explore early termination and had already said in July he would not renew. WSLS quoted him saying the cameras may still record while his office cannot search them.
FOX 2 Detroit and Hyperlocal Loop reported August 17, 2026 that Sumpter Township Police canceled its Flock Safety agreement, effective immediately, after public feedback. Police said no cameras were installed, so none had to come down. FOX 2 also described an April 60-day free trial of 11 Falcon units along…
CBS Texas reported that over the weekend of August 15–16, 2026, Constable John D. Shirley said the work of shutting down and covering Hood County’s Flock cameras was done after commissioners and residents raised privacy and mass-surveillance concerns. NBC 5 reported that was three cameras, and that Sheriff Roger…
DeFlock and local coalitions are organizing a National Week of Action Against ALPRs for August 16 to August 22, 2026. The campaign (toolkit at noalprs.com) urges council testimony, canvassing, marches, and educational events against automated license plate readers, including Flock. ABC News reporting also noted…
The Des Moines Register reported that Police Chief Chad McCluskey announced August 14, 2026 that Waukee will not renew its Flock contract and will stop using the license-plate cameras pending the 2027 Iowa legislative session. He cited privacy and data-retention concerns from the national debate. The city ran 11 cameras; none had been vandalized locally. Waukee was the first Des Moines metro city reported to drop Flock; Coralville canceled earlier in 2026.
DailyTrib and CBS Austin reported that the Burnet County Sheriff’s Office removed all of its fixed Flock ALPRs effective August 3, 2026 after two vandalism hits (brackets and cables cut; camera and battery struck). Capt. Howard Stinehour of the Heart of Texas Auto Theft Task Force said criminal cases were opened…
NewsOn6 and KTUL reported August 11, 2026 that Police Chief Mike Bell emailed Flock asking the company to remove Coweta’s two plate readers and saying the city will not renew for the 2027 budget year, with no new charges after September 15. Bell cited months of resident Fourth Amendment and privacy concerns and…
The Craig Daily Press reported that Moffat County Sheriff Chip McIntyre stopped using the office’s Flock cameras on August 13, 2026. The contract ends December 31, 2026. The office had 10 cameras at about $30,000 a year, shared with partners. McIntyre cited privacy, cost, and data-sharing concerns.
KKTV and the Mountain Mail reported that Salida Police canceled its Flock contract on August 13, 2026 and will stop using the city’s six ALPRs. Chief Russ Johnson said the department had to balance a useful tool against privacy, data retention, access, and inappropriate-use questions, plus “too much distrust on the…
AZCentral reported on August 7, 2026 that Chandler terminated its about $153,000 Flock Safety contract after a routine audit found an unexplained “anomaly in the use of the Flock system that could not be explained through standard police action” on August 6. Police Chief Bryan Chapman said an internal investigation…
The Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported August 13 that Searcy is ending its Flock contracts. Police Chief Steve Hernandez said officers largely were not using the system (about 10 of 60 regularly accessing ALPRs) and that Flock never installed all 30 cameras in contracts that started October 2023.…
Star Tribune, FOX 9, and CBS Minnesota documented a statewide pullback as vandalism hit multiple cities and councils rethought plate-reader contracts, including Sherburne County’s Aug. 12 trial exit.
On August 13, 2026, Flock Safety announced new controls amid misuse arrests, city exits, and vandalism. Per CNN and USA Today, the company is cutting its standard retention default from 30 days to 7 (agencies can still set longer under local policy), adding Evidence Mode to keep data tied to a case number past the…
On July 29, 2026, Harrisonburg City Council voted 4-0 to end the city’s Flock contract and adopt a policy that generally prohibits mounted automatic license plate readers without express council approval (with limited exceptions). City Manager Ande Banks said the system would go dark by Friday (July 31). WHSV /…
Rogue Valley Times reported that Sheriff Dave Daniel canceled the office’s 10-camera Flock Safety contract on August 12, 2026 and deactivated the cameras the same day. Daniel cited public Fourth Amendment concerns and recent vandalism of Flock equipment, writing that “much of Josephine County is not ready or…
Ord City Council voted unanimously (5-0) on August 3, 2026 to begin removing two Flock cameras after resident pushback, becoming Nebraska’s first city to outright reject the technology in local coverage. The cameras were installed in late 2025 under a Valley County / Region 26 emergency-management grant (~$49,000…
Pinal County Sheriff Ross Teeple told the Board of Supervisors on August 5, 2026 that his office will not renew its Flock Safety operational contract when it expires September 29, citing “serious Fourth Amendment concerns.” AZFamily and FOX 10 reported that as a U-turn from Teeple’s 2025 town-hall defense of the…
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported that Police Chief David Starbuck announced the department would begin removing Greers Ferry’s two Flock Safety ALPRs in the city of about 800 people. Starbuck said the decision balanced safety with privacy and trust and was not made lightly. Coverage framed Greers Ferry as at…
KUTV reported on August 11, 2026 that Millcreek found a Flock automated license plate reader on city property near Millcreek Common. City leaders say they did not authorize the install and do not know who put it there. Neither the city nor Unified Police has a Flock contract. Council member Thom DeSirant said the…
Residents filed Idaho Tort Claims Act notices against Idaho Falls (July 29) and Twin Falls (July 27), arguing Flock contracts wrongly let the company use captured plate images to train recognition software in violation of Idaho Code § 49-1432. Idaho Falls City Council unanimously amended its contracts on July 30,…
KTEN reported that Ingleside City Council voted unanimously on August 11, 2026 to authorize City Manager Brenton Lewis to terminate the Flock contract. The motion set aside up to $22,000 in discretionary funds for possible termination fees. The city had approved Resolution 2024-14 in February 2024 to seek a…
Centerton’s six council members voted unanimously on August 11, 2026 to end the city’s Flock Safety contract after residents and neighbors pressed privacy and data-access concerns. Per the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Police Chief Cody Harper said the program had been rocky, some of about 16 cameras…
Police Chief Alex Gammelgard told City Council on August 11, 2026 that Grass Valley will indefinitely suspend automated license plate readers, including Flock Safety cameras, after reviewing warrantless collection, retention, vendor AI training, and sharing with other agencies. “ALPR issues can certainly be defined…
KY3 reported that Bolivar’s Board of Aldermen voted unanimously on August 11, 2026 to terminate the city’s Flock contract. The board had voted July 28 to seek an exit. The termination notice asked Flock to stop plate detection and data sharing; the city planned to bag cameras until Flock removes them. KY3 also noted a possible clawback of about $54,000 from a Missouri Blue Shield grant. Camera count was not published.
KDKD published Sheriff Aaron N. Brown’s August 10, 2026 statement that the Henry County Sheriff’s Office will not renew its Flock Safety LPR agreement when the current term expires March 11, 2027. The office began using Flock earlier in 2026 through a State of Missouri grant. Brown said the system assisted investigations in its first five months but that constitutional principles, public trust, and fiscal responsibility weighed against continuing past the grant term. Not the same county as the Virginia suspend (CAN-2026-105).
The Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported that Farmington Police will not renew a one-year Flock contract for eight cameras that cost about $26,000 and expired August 10, 2026. Lt. Justin Collins cited customer-service and turnover problems plus timing. Four license-plate readers sat on U.S. 62; the rest were park cameras. This is Farmington, Arkansas, not Farmington Hills, Michigan. Nearby Arkansas peers such as Pea Ridge have already exited.
Centerton was not alone. Pea Ridge Police Chief Lynn Hahn discontinued Flock on July 24 after resident Fourth Amendment pushback (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette). Cabot Mayor Ken Kincade announced an immediate suspend pending review around August 6, with cameras reportedly unplugged and covered. Mayflower Interim…
Record-Courier reported that Streetsboro City Council voted 4–2 on August 10, 2026 against a about $63,000 Flock Safety contract, so cameras will not be installed. Yes: Steve Michniak and Jennifer Wagner. No: Justin Ring, Michael Lampa, Marianne Glenn, and Anthony Lombardo (Jon Hannan absent). Council had stretched…
On August 9, 2026, West Virginia’s Joint Standing Committee on Government Organization held about two hours of interim testimony on automated license plate readers. WV MetroNews and WSAZ report that presenters were Flock government-affairs director Kevin Kane and Institute for Justice legislative counsel Alasdair…
Killingworth is ending its Flock contract and removing four Falcon cameras on Route 81 (about $14,600 budgeted). First Selectman Eric Couture told NBC Connecticut the cameras added little local policing value, raised privacy and data-sharing concerns after out-of-state access reporting, and created FOIA burdens a…
KSAT reported that Guadalupe County commissioners unanimously approved ending the county’s Flock Safety contract at a meeting covered August 7–8, 2026. Sheriff Joshua Ray cited public scrutiny, vandalism of every Flock camera in Seguin, and Flock’s refusal to pay replacement costs; he said he would not spend tax…
On August 8, 2026, Just the News reported that Indiana Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R) said he and colleagues would pursue federal legislation to rein in Flock-style cameras after a police officer followed him into his driveway over an expired registration that Flock cameras had flagged. Stutzman called the reach…
FOX 35 Orlando and WESH reported that Palm Bay took its Flock Safety ALPR system offline on August 7, 2026 after City Manager Matthew Morton’s preliminary review found the cameras may not have been properly permitted or installed by the vendor. Morton and Police Chief Jeff Spears ordered the shutdown. Cameras stay…
KLBJ and Texas Scorecard reported that Lago Vista City Council voted unanimously on August 6, 2026 to end its Flock Safety agreement and remove the city’s automated license plate readers. Mayor Shane Saum said the cameras were added as a 2022 budget item without much public discussion, that residents packed the…
On August 6, 2026, Glocester Town Council voted 4–1 to stop using Flock Safety license plate readers, continuing Rhode Island’s late-July / early-August exit wave after South Kingstown and Narragansett. Boston Globe reporting says residents’ privacy comments swayed councilors who admitted they lacked full…
WBNG reported that Binghamton City Council passed a resolution on August 6, 2026 calling on Mayor Jared Kraham to terminate the city’s Flock Safety contracts. Council leaders cited privacy, warrantless-surveillance, and outside-access concerns and noted the national cancel wave. The cameras have also been credited…
On August 5, 2026, U.S. District Judge Carlton W. Reeves (S.D. Miss.) held that tower-dump warrants are per se unconstitutional under the Fourth Amendment. A tower dump forces carriers to turn over time-and-location data for every phone that hit listed towers in a window, including drivers, workers, and neighbors…
Advocacy group DeFlock Elk Grove released a public-records audit covered by the Sacramento Bee and CBS Sacramento: more than 3,600 organizations ran about 8.3 million searches of data from Elk Grove’s Flock ALPRs between 2021 and March 2026. Elk Grove PD itself accounted for only about 3% (~260,000) of those…
Stanford University announced it ended its Flock Safety agreement and is replacing campus-entrance license plate cameras with Genetec Cloudrunner. Palo Alto Online, citing the Stanford Report, says the new stack holds images briefly in the cloud, then moves them to a university-controlled server with no third-party…
Oklahoma City Council deferred a planned August 4 vote on renewing its Flock Safety ALPR contract so staff could amend agreement language. The proposed deal is about $270,000 through June 30, 2027 for roughly 90 cameras funded from the police sales-tax fund. Journal Record reporting says the system had been running…
On August 3, 2026, Narragansett Town Council voted unanimously to terminate the town’s Flock contract early and accept early-exit penalties. The agreement had auto-renewed for two years after a trial and was set to run into September 2027. Coverage notes roughly four cameras in operation (one had been stolen) and…
In May 2026, Littleton’s Select Board ordered the town’s six Flock cameras temporarily powered down so officials could review the technology and privacy policy. On July 30, when Select Board Chair Gary Wilson asked police to check the system’s status, officers found that five of the six cameras on public ways had…
The Post and Courier reported that Greer suspended Flock camera use after two officers were fired over alleged unauthorized searches (FLK-2026-019). Duration and hardware-removal timing were not fully published.
Redwood City opened a competitive request for proposals for plate-reader equipment and support after residents urged the city to end its Flock relationship. The current deal would have auto-renewed; the city told Flock it must bid again. The RFP covers about 25 readers, a three-year purchase with optional two-year…
The Lima News reported on August 1, 2026 that Flock cameras face growing local and national scrutiny. Lima PD authorizes 12 cameras at major entry and exit points. The piece notes documented officer misuse of ALPR networks elsewhere, resident worry about retention and third-party sharing, and Flock’s claim that…
Machinist and privacy advocate Mason Grimmett, represented by the Kansas Justice Institute, sued the City of Wichita in Sedgwick County District Court seeking a declaratory judgment that the city’s Flock Safety ALPR program violates the Kansas Constitution. The suit asks the court to end the program and purge…
KALW reported on July 31, 2026 that El Cerrito police had begun physically removing the city’s Flock cameras. In May, council voted not to renew after federal agencies accessed data from about 40 cameras without local police knowledge. The contract expired June 6 and cameras were supposed to be offline, but…
FOX 5 Atlanta reported September 4, 2026 that Gwinnett County Police Department fired three officers after an internal Flock audit. The same reporting said one officer was arrested in May 2026 on charges of simple battery and stalking, and that two others were charged September 4 with misuse of license-plate data (six counts and one count). The officers are not named here. A charge is not a finding of guilt. Chief J.D. McClure announced policy changes: officers must now submit search requests with justifications to supervisors, who perform the searches; the department mandated retraining for all officers and cut data retention from 30 days to 15 days. On July 29, residents had packed the mic demanding commissioners cancel the county's roughly 1,100-camera deployment; commissioners did not vote to cancel.
The Louisville Courier Journal reported that a Shively Police officer was arrested August 25, 2026 after Flock's AI audit tool flagged more than 2,000 searches. The paper said the officer faces 10 misdemeanor charges: five counts of official misconduct and five counts of unlawful access to a computer. The same reporting said the officer pleaded not guilty on August 28 and is suspended without pay. Spectrum News released body-camera footage of the arrest on September 4. The officer is not named here. A charge is not a finding of guilt.
On July 29, 2026, Gwinnett County commissioners heard a wave of speakers calling for cancellation of the county’s large Flock deployment (local reporting cites on the order of 1,100 license-plate readers and a multi-year deal expanded past about $2.2 million, running into 2029). Speakers raised privacy and data-sharing concerns. Commissioners did not vote to cancel. See the September 4, 2026 misuse update.
Monroe County Commissioners voted to cancel the county’s Flock contract (~ 6 cameras), calling the system mass surveillance and citing risk that plate and location data could be accessed by outside or federal agencies. Coverage notes Bloomington is also ending its Flock deal; Commissioner Jody Madeira stressed that…
After months of packed meetings and resident opposition, Stoughton City Council unanimously terminated Flock on July 28, 2026, about three months after install. The city will pay a ~$12,500 early-exit buyout on a two-year / $25,000 contract, remove five cameras (four ALPR + one live feed), and delete collected…
South Kingstown Town Council voted 5-0 on July 27, 2026 to terminate Flock and remove cameras as soon as possible after hundreds of resident emails and an ACLU of Rhode Island advocacy letter. The ~$30,300 year contract had gone active when cameras went up in February (~6-7 units). The town is seeking a partial…
On July 27, 2026, Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie said he would soon sponsor legislation to withhold federal funds from municipalities and police departments that deploy Flock and similar mass-surveillance cameras against “law abiding citizens.” Formal bill text was not yet released in that coverage. On September 2 he and Rep. Eric Burlison introduced H.R. 10221: Flock-Off Act writeup.
City Council voted 6-1 on June 16, 2026 to immediately cancel Flock, stop data collection, remove cameras, and delay seeking new ALPR bids until a citywide surveillance policy is in place. Staff confirmed all 15 city Flock cameras were removed by early July. Private Flock cameras elsewhere in the area were not…
UCNOW reported that the White County Commission voted July 20, 2026 to rescind the April 2025 resolution that authorized Flock cameras. Chair Derrick Hutchings said the board reversed after resident privacy pushback, and that the sheriff’s office had asked for the cameras. He said units went up around September or October 2025 and likely still collect data while they stand; removal sits with the sheriff’s office because that agency started the contract. The county attorney said not to touch vendor equipment on the right-of-way. In June the commission had already stripped about $48,000 in Flock funding, per a separate UCNOW report; Sparta’s cameras are a city program. After that June funding strip, Sparta Live quoted Sheriff Steve Page saying he told Flock the county cameras were unfunded and could come down; pickup still waits on the vendor. That is not a confirmed hardware pull. On August 7, 2026, the Upper Cumberland News Leader quoted Sheriff Page saying he ordered Flock removal after community feedback; hardware confirmation is still pending. Tennessee writeup.
Signal Cleveland reported that Cleveland City Council voted July 15, 2026, to give police six more months on about 100 Flock cameras. Safety Committee amendments cut the deal from a year to six months ($250,000 to $125,000), barred Flock from disclosing Cleveland data to outside agencies unless compelled by a search warrant, and shut off Northeast Ohio Regional Fusion Center access to the city’s Flock data. Police must set up an online portal and file quarterly reports to council. The city had already disabled outside-agency searches of its system and blocked immigration-related search keywords, the paper said. Signal Cleveland’s analysis found Houston and Dallas police made up 9% of nearly 8 million searches through Cleveland’s data from January to mid-May. Cameras stay under a shortened renewal with sharing limits. Related Ohio coverage: Ohio ALPR bills, Columbus pause, Lucas County.
On July 15, 2026, Texas Rep. Keith Self introduced H.R. 9716, the Protecting Rights in Video and Equipment Acquired Discovery (PRIVACY) Act, with Reps. Eli Crane and Andrew Clyde as original cosponsors. The bill would generally bar federal law enforcement from accessing or querying covered state and local…
Huntington City Council approved a roughly $2.1 million Flock contract on a 6-4 vote after a marathon meeting with dozens of public speakers, nearly all opposed. The ACLU of West Virginia (with co-counsel) then sued in Cabell County Circuit Court on behalf of resident Greg Jimison, alleging the city skipped…
After data-sharing controversies, Common Council moved to end Flock on city streets and approved a multi-year Axon plate-reader contract. By mid-July 2026, Flock confirmed its 13 city-approved readers were removed from city property. Axon cameras were expected to go up afterward, a vendor swap, not an end to mass…
In late July 2026, Salem Mayor Dominick Pangallo and Police Chief Lucas Miller said the city would not renew Flock and would remove installed ALPRs, citing “insufficient protections” for ALPR data and arguing that data should be owned and used only for Salem’s public-safety priorities. They also said Flock units…
Macon County commissioners voted unanimously on July 14, 2026 to stop funding the Sheriff’s Office Flock program (about $47,000 budgeted) and to remove about 12 county-owned cameras immediately, even though the contract did not expire until October. Coverage cites no material exit fee beyond short notice. WLOS and…
On July 14, 2026, the Leon County Commission unanimously pulled about $440,000 in regional public-safety grant funding that would have expanded Flock ALPRs in neighboring Wakulla, Jefferson, Liberty, and Taylor counties (pass-through via the Leon County Sheriff’s Office). Commissioners approved other grant items in…
In mid-July 2026, the Los Angeles Police Department allowed its multi-year Flock agreement to expire. LAPD Chief Information Officer Dean Gialamas cited “serious concerns around civil liberties and civil rights,” especially privacy and collected data. An Inspector General audit earlier that month had urged pausing…
New Times San Luis Obispo reported that the Oceano Community Services District board voted 3–2 on July 8, 2026 to deny a San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office request to install a Flock ALPR on CSD property at the leased substation on Front Street. Board members cited privacy, data-ownership questions, and the…
The City of Kaukauna announced it did not renew its three-year Flock Safety contract for six ALPRs; the deal expired June 30, 2026. Police Chief Jamie Graff said continuing was not fiscally responsible given privacy and audit concerns and the inability to partner with Fox Cities neighbors that had already dropped…
Albany City Council voted 4-2 in late May 2026 to terminate its Flock Safety contract after suspending the city’s single active downtown camera in February over federal-access concerns. The powered-down camera was later stolen. Formal termination was effective June 29; City Manager Peter Troedsson told reporters…
Council approved a one-year renewal amid vocal public opposition, then unanimously rescinded within ~24 hours after Police Chief Dean Smith said, per local reporting, that Flock’s in-meeting answer on heat-map tracking did not match what the product can do. Cameras powered off and bagged.
Developments
: council unanimously rescinds the renewal; cameras powered off and bagged.
About 24 hours earlier: council had approved a one-year renewal amid public opposition.
On April 15, 2026, three San Jose residents, Tony Tan, Scott West, and Colin Wolfson, filed a federal class action in the Northern District of California against the city and police over San Jose’s Flock Safety ALPR network (about 474 cameras). Represented by the Institute for Justice, they argue warrantless…
Sierra Vista officials say the city’s Flock contract was officially terminated April 2, 2026, after a February 24 work-session direction to give 30-day notice. About 16 grant-funded plate readers had been purchased for police. Residents and Cochise County Supervisor Frank Antenori raised concerns about Flock owning…
South Tucson City Council voted February 17, 2026 to cancel its Flock Safety contract after months of resident opposition, becoming the third Arizona city in that reporting wave after Flagstaff and Sedona. Local coverage says Deflock Tucson organizers spoke at council; officials later explored alternative…
Staunton, VA, terminated after the CEO’s “coordinated attack” email
After months of resident opposition at council (a dozen speakers on Dec. 11), Flock CEO Garrett Langley emailed police clients that Flock and partner agencies were under a “coordinated attack” from activists who want to “defund the police, weaken public safety, and normalize lawlessness,” and that they were “trying to turn a public records process into a weapon.” Staunton Police Chief Jim Williams disagreed, and the city cancelled.
“Let’s call this what it is: Flock, and the law enforcement agencies we partner with, are under coordinated attack… from the same activist groups who want to defund the police, weaken public safety, and normalize lawlessness… They’re also trying to turn a public records process into a weapon against you and against us.”
Garrett Langley, Dec. 2025 email to police clients
“What we are seeing here is a group of local citizens who are raising concerns that we could be potentially surveilling private citizens, residents and visitors and using the data for nefarious purposes. These citizens have been exercising their rights to receive answers from me, my staff, and city officials, to include our elected leaders. In short, it is democracy in action.”
Staunton Police Chief Jim Williams, reply to Langley
The city said the CEO’s narrative “does not reflect the city’s values.” Contract terminated Jan. 8, 2026; cameras were later taken down. Williams later said the department was not actively exploring other stationary ALPR systems.
Developments
: contract terminated; cameras later taken down.
: Langley emails police clients about a “coordinated attack”; the city says that narrative does not reflect its values.
Common Council voted not to renew; contract lapsed December. Officials and residents framed the decision as lack of public trust in Flock Safety. Cameras remained up for months; city covered them pending physical removal.
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