Sheboygan Common Council votes to end Flock camera contract | FOX6 News Milwaukee
The short version: Sheboygan's Common Council voted unanimously to kill its Flock camera contract, proving local pushback on ALPR surveillance can actually win.
Our Take
Credit to FOX6 News Milwaukee for covering a story that deserves way more attention than it gets: a unanimous vote by elected officials to end a Flock Safety contract. That's not a split decision or a quiet non-renewal buried in a budget line — it's a city council looking at the automated license plate reader program it already paid for and saying no more, together.
This matters because the Flock sales pitch leans hard on inevitability. Departments are told every neighboring town has it, that opting out means falling behind, that the data stays local and safe. Sheboygan's vote is a reminder that none of that is set in stone. Councils can ask hard questions about cost, about who else gets access to the data, about mission creep from "find stolen cars" to blanket tracking of everyone who drives through town — and they can pull the plug.
If you live somewhere still debating a Flock contract, this is the kind of outcome worth putting in front of your own council members. Check our camera map to see what's already deployed near you, and head to our take-action page for tools to push your local government toward the same unanimous answer Sheboygan just gave.
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