Milford board rejects camera ban, orders review of Flock cameras and drones
The short version: Milford's board punted on banning Flock cameras, opting for a 'review' instead of accountability — a familiar stall tactic.
Our Take
Milford's Board of Alderman had a chance to pull the plug on Flock Safety's license plate readers and drones Monday night. Instead, per WFSB 3's report, they voted down the ban and ordered a "review" — the classic move local governments make when they want to look responsive without actually doing anything. Reviews can take months, get buried, or quietly conclude that everything's fine because the vendor says so.
This is the same playbook we've watched play out in town after town: residents raise real concerns about a private company harvesting plate data on every car that passes a reader, officials nod along, then kick the can with a study committee or an audit that has no teeth. Meanwhile the cameras keep scanning, the data keeps flowing into Flock's national network, and the department-to-department data sharing agreements nobody fully understands keep humming along in the background.
If you're in Milford or anywhere near it, don't wait on a review to tell you what's already happening in your neighborhood — check our camera map to see what's actually deployed nearby, and head to take action for templates and steps to push your own board past the stall tactics. Credit to WFSB 3 for keeping this story in front of the public; the next move is on Milford residents to make sure "review" doesn't mean "forget about it."
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.