New Hampshire Flock camera laws could be model for Florida

Our Take

New Hampshire keeps coming up in these conversations for a reason: it's one of the few states that treats license plate data like the sensitive, revealing record it actually is, with short retention windows and real limits on who can access it and why. When a Florida newsroom points to Granite State law as a possible template, that's a tacit admission that Florida's current patchwork — county by county, department by department — isn't cutting it.

That patchwork is exactly how Flock Safety prefers it. Vague state rules mean individual agencies can sign contracts, flip on cameras, and start sharing data across jurisdictional lines before residents even know a network exists. Strong statewide retention caps and audit requirements, the kind New Hampshire has, make that kind of quiet expansion much harder to pull off.

Florida drivers deserve to know whether this model actually gets adopted or just gets talked about in hearings while deployments keep multiplying. Check our map to see what's already running in your area, and if you want to push your own legislators toward real limits instead of model language that goes nowhere, our take-action page has next steps.