Milford board rejects camera ban, orders review of Flock cameras and drones
The short version: Milford's board kept Flock's ALPRs and drones running, punting accountability to a yet-to-be-formed citizen review board instead of shutting the program down.
Our Take
Credit to WFSB 3 for covering this one, because it's a pattern we see over and over: a town debates whether to keep feeding a private company's database with every driver's movements, and the "compromise" is to keep the cameras running while promising a review board will look into it later. A review board with no track record, no power to actually pull the plug, and no deadline isn't oversight — it's a pressure valve designed to make the controversy go away without changing anything on the ground.
What's especially worth watching here is that drones got lumped into the same conversation. Flock has been pushing its Falcon cameras and its drone-as-first-responder programs as a package deal in city after city, and Milford's alderman just voted to let both keep operating while a committee studies it. That's the playbook: get the hardware installed first, debate the policy later, and bank on the fact that once a surveillance network is live, ripping it out feels harder than tolerating it.
If you live in or around Milford, don't wait for a review board to tell you what's already watching your plate. Check our camera map to see what's been documented nearby, and if you want to push back before the next vote, our take-action page has concrete steps for showing up at these meetings with something sharper than vague unease.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of WFSB 3, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.