Salida police cancel Flock Safety contract following resident concerns
The short version: Salida, Colorado police scrapped their Flock Safety ALPR contract after residents pushed back, per KRDO13 Colorado Springs — proof public pressure can actually roll back surveillance.
Our Take
Credit where it's due: KRDO13 Colorado Springs is reporting something we don't get to cover often enough — a town that said no, and had the city actually listen. Salida's police department walked away from its Flock Safety deal after residents raised concerns, which means this wasn't a council vote buried in a consent agenda or a quiet non-renewal. People showed up, asked hard questions, and a contract got killed.
This matters because the standard playbook for ALPR rollouts is momentum: sign the deal, install the cameras, present them as a fait accompli, and let "public safety" branding do the rest of the talking. Salida is a reminder that the window to stop a network before it takes root is real, but it only opens when neighbors actually find out what's being proposed and push back before ink hits paper. Once a city is years into a contract with a growing database of travel logs, reversing course gets a lot harder.
If you want to know whether your town already has cameras feeding Flock's network — or is about to — check our camera map, and if you're organizing against a pending contract, our take-action page has the tools other communities have used to do exactly what Salida just did.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of KRDO13 Colorado Springs, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.