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The most widely deployed automated license plate reader vendor in United States municipal policing, and the company whose name has become shorthand for the technology. Flock sells networked, solar-powered fixed cameras on a subscription model, with a shared search layer that lets participating agencies query one another's data.
Unsurveilled’s campaign is Warrant Required, not “ban Flock.” That is a deliberate choice and it is worth explaining, because it is the single most common point of confusion about this project.
The problem is warrantless networked license-plate surveillance, whoever sells it. Flock is the largest vendor and therefore the most frequent subject of our records, but a policy aimed at a company is a policy with an expiry date.
The demonstration case is Austin, Texas. Organizers succeeded in cancelling the city’s Flock contract in 2025 — a real campaign win, reported as such. EFF subsequently reported that Austin continued to use ALPR through Axon. The brand on the pole changed. The capability did not.
That is why every Unsurveilled policy ask is written against function, not vendor name: what data is collected, how long it is kept, who can search it, and under what legal standard. A city can satisfy an anti-Flock campaign and fail every one of those questions.
A vendor is authoritative about what it says its own product does — its stated retention defaults, its stated sharing model, its published policies. It is not authoritative about whether a deployment is constitutional, whether an agency configured it well, or whether it works.
Where this site cites vendor material, it is cited for the first category only,
and labelled vendor-material in the source library so the distinction is
visible.
Flock appears throughout the Decision Record — in adoptions, renewals, restrictions, and a growing number of reversals. Two Arizona records from the same week of August 2026 are instructive read together:
Neither is yet established as a reduction in capability, because in both cases the replacement-and-regional-access question is still open. That question is the one this vendor page exists to keep in front of the reader.
Get the Flock Out coordinates state affiliates, model legislation, and litigation. It also publishes figures — and one of them is testable against our own map.
A Pinal County resident said he used his work truck to bend a license-plate reader pole so the camera pointed at the sky. He was arrested and faces a felony criminal-damage charge — in a state where two agencies have just walked away from their ALPR contracts.
A resolution is not a cancellation. In Binghamton the authority sits with the mayor, the mayor has said no, and one of the contracts renews automatically this month.
Three years of routine audits found nothing. The fourth found something. The largest Arizona city running Flock Safety cameras responded by revoking every officer's access and ending the program outright.
The largest ALPR vendor in American policing announced real, substantial limits on its own product. It also left the one question this campaign is about exactly where it was.
Public-records reporting shows state and regional fusion centers monitoring publicly visible anti-Flock activity online and distributing intelligence products to law enforcement. Some material concerned vandalism. Other material tracked lawful organizing.
A district judge held that Norfolk's camera grid does not track the whole of a person's movements. Two residents whose cars were captured 475 and 325 times in four months have appealed.
Minnesota's largest Flock cancellation to date is also the clearest reminder that ending a vendor contract and ending automated plate reading are not the same decision.
Roughly 45 cameras, about half of them in San Tan Valley — a town that incorporated five weeks earlier and now gets to decide its own surveillance policy before a contract exists to defend.
The cameras had already been switched off for three months. The council covered them anyway — which tells you what a switch is worth once a city has stopped believing the dashboard.
Eight Minnesota suburbs left their camera networks open. During a federal operation last winter, agencies from inside and outside the state searched that data for civil immigration purposes.
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