New Colorado bills aiming at Flock cameras

Our Take

KREX News 5 flags two bills in front of the Colorado legislature, SB 26-070 and SB 26-071, both aimed at putting guardrails on Flock Safety's license plate readers. We haven't seen full bill text breakdowns in the segment, so we're not going to pretend we know every provision — but the fact that Colorado is running two separate bills at once tells you lawmakers there understand the scope of the problem isn't a single loophole, it's a system that grew faster than any oversight could keep up with.

That's the pattern we keep seeing nationwide: a vendor sells 'find your stolen car' to a city council, and two years later that same network is logging every commuter's plate, shared across hundreds of agencies, with no warrant and often no local vote. Colorado joining states like Virginia and others pushing retention limits, audit requirements, or outright bans isn't an outlier story anymore, it's part of a bigger reckoning with how normalized mass plate tracking has become.

Credit to KREX for actually covering the legislative mechanics instead of just the crime-fighting press release angle. If you're in Colorado or anywhere else, check our camera map to see what's already watching your streets, and head to take action for templates on contacting your reps while these bills are still live.