Green Confirms Flock Camera Contract Terminated, Removal Still Unclear
The short version: Green, Ohio council confirms it killed its Flock contract, but the cameras are apparently still standing — a gap between promise and practice.
Our Take
Credit to Jabbering With Julie and Northeast Ohio News for actually pinning down city officials on this one. Green's council says the Flock Safety contract is dead, yet the cameras still haven't come down. That gap between "terminated on paper" and "removed in reality" is exactly the kind of accountability blind spot we track — a city can claim it's done with mass surveillance while the hardware keeps scanning plates and feeding a database indefinitely.
This is a pattern we've seen play out in city after city: officials sign these contracts fast, often with little public debate, but unwinding them is slow, murky, and rarely gets the same press coverage as the initial rollout. Who owns the footage already collected? Is the camera still transmitting during this limbo period? Residents deserve real answers, not just a council soundbite that the deal is "terminated."
If you're in Green or anywhere else wondering whether Flock cameras are still watching your street, check our camera map and push your local officials for a hard removal timeline, not just a canceled contract. Termination without teardown isn't a win — it's just surveillance on pause.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Jabbering With Julie and Northeast Ohio News, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.