HUGE WIN: This university CANCELLED its Flock contract
The short version: A university reportedly walked away from its Flock Safety contract, proof that organized pushback can actually roll back ALPR surveillance creep on campus.
Our Take
Credit to More Perfect University for surfacing this one — a campus canceling a Flock Safety contract is the kind of story that doesn't make it into a press release from the company. These wins tend to happen quietly, after students, faculty, or community members start asking hard questions about cost, necessity, and what exactly a network of license plate cameras is doing to protect academic freedom versus just feeding data into a nationwide surveillance system.
Universities have become an attractive sales target for Flock: enclosed populations, administrators eager to look 'proactive' on safety, and budgets that don't always get the same scrutiny as municipal contracts. But campuses are also where organizing against this stuff tends to be easiest — faculty senates, student governments, and journalism programs all have leverage that a city council often doesn't give residents. If this cancellation is real and holds, it's a template other schools should be looking at.
We don't have the full contract details here, so we're not going to overstate what happened — but the direction matters. Check our map to see if a Flock-connected camera is already sitting on your campus or in your neighborhood, and if you want to push back the way this university apparently did, our take-action page has the starting moves.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of More Perfect University, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.