Florida CAUGHT FUNNELING $6 Million for Surveillance Platform after BANNING Flock Cameras?!?!
The short version: Legal AF reports Florida banned Flock cameras as 'out of control' while allegedly steering $6 million toward a similar surveillance platform the same week.
Our Take
If the reporting from Legal AF holds up, this is the kind of move that should make every Floridian's head spin: state officials publicly yank Flock cameras off highways, calling the program "out of control," and then turn around and quietly route millions toward what sounds like a comparable surveillance platform. That's not reform. That's rebranding. The hardware changes, the contractor changes, but the underlying appetite for tracking every car that passes a checkpoint doesn't go anywhere.
This is exactly the pattern we warn readers to watch for — a ban that looks good in a press release but leaves the door wide open for the same capability to return under a different vendor name and a fresh budget line. Credit to Legal AF for digging into the money trail here, because procurement paperwork is usually where these stories actually live, not in the talking points politicians give reporters. Lawmakers who vote to "ban" a surveillance tool should be held to actually banning the surveillance, not just the brand.
If you want to see whether this kind of camera network has already shown up near you, check our map, and if you'd rather not wait for the next version of this story to break in your own state, our take-action page has concrete steps for pushing back before the contracts get signed.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Legal AF, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.