UPDATE!

Our Take

Credit to the Daytona Beach Lawyer channel for laying out both sides plainly: Port Orange police have now made an arrest connected to a damaged Flock Safety camera. We share the channel's core discomfort with these systems — networks of always-on cameras building a searchable log of where every car in town goes, with little in the way of statewide rules on retention, access, or abuse. That concern is legitimate and growing across Florida and the country.

But an arrest like this is a reminder that frustration with surveillance tech doesn't translate into a free pass to destroy it. Damaging a camera might feel like direct action, but it risks criminal charges, gives Flock and local PR departments a sympathetic victim narrative, and does nothing to change the policies, contracts, or retention periods that actually make this technology dangerous. The fight against mass surveillance is won through disclosure, public records requests, city council pressure, and informed voters — not bent camera poles.

If you want to know whether there's a Flock camera on your route, check our camera map, and if you want to push back the right way — through your local government, not a felony charge — our take-action page has real options.