Milford Board of Aldermen vote 9-6 against termination of Flock camera program
The short version: Milford's Board of Aldermen ignored a packed room of privacy-minded residents and voted 9-6 to keep Flock's ALPR cameras running.
Our Take
Credit to FOX61 for showing what accountability theater actually looks like. Dozens of Milford residents showed up to City Hall to tell their elected officials that a privately-run network of license plate cameras tracking every car's movement is a problem, and the board listened politely, then voted 9-6 to keep the cameras anyway. That's the pattern we see over and over: public comment gets treated as a formality to get through, not input that might actually change a vote.
What's frustrating is that this isn't a close call on the merits. Flock's ALPR systems log where you drive, when, and how often, building a searchable history on anyone who owns a car, regardless of whether they're suspected of anything. Milford residents clearly understood that risk and showed up in numbers to say so. The board majority decided a surveillance vendor's sales pitch about safety outweighed that. If you want to see whether Milford's cameras — or ones near you — are already part of this network, check our camera map.
Votes like this one are exactly why local pressure has to be sustained, not a one-night showing. Boards count on public anger fading after the cameras stay up. If you live in Milford or anywhere else fighting a Flock contract, our take-action page has tools to keep the pressure on past a single meeting.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of FOX 61, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.