Ohio city becomes latest to end use of Flock cameras

Our Take

Credit to Local 12 (WKRC) for covering this one, because it's the kind of story that deserves more airtime: a city council actually listening to its constituents and ripping out a surveillance network instead of expanding it. A 6-1 vote to kill all 20 Flock cameras isn't a close call — it's a council that got the message loud and clear that unaccountable license plate tracking wasn't worth whatever vague "public safety" pitch Flock's sales team used to get the contract signed in the first place.

Lebanon joins a growing list of towns figuring out that once these cameras go up, the data doesn't just sit there protecting you — it gets logged, shared, searched, and sometimes leaked or misused, often with zero public accounting of who looked at what and why. Every vote like this is proof that the "it's already everywhere, nothing can be done" narrative Flock and its boosters like to push is false. Councils can reverse course. Residents can show up and demand it.

If you want to know whether a Flock camera is already watching your commute, check our map. And if your city hasn't had its Lebanon moment yet, here's how to start pushing for one.