Hillsborough County Florida has not yet removed their Flock Cameras. But, they did move it.
The short version: Hillsborough County reportedly relocated a Flock ALPR camera instead of removing it, a sleight-of-hand that deserves more scrutiny than applause.
Our Take
Credit to Derrick Todd for catching what a lot of agencies hope nobody notices: when public pressure mounts over a specific Flock camera, the easy move isn't to shut the program down, it's to just shuffle the hardware down the road. Hillsborough County didn't pull the plug — it repositioned the eye. That's not accountability, that's a rebrand of the same surveillance footprint with a new coordinate pin.
This matters because the fight against ALPR sprawl isn't just about killing individual cameras, it's about whether local governments treat these devices as permanent infrastructure they can quietly relocate at will, with zero public process. A camera that moves without a vote, a hearing, or even a press release is a camera operating outside the accountability loop entirely. If a county can shuffle a Flock unit around a neighborhood on their own say-so, what exactly did residents 'win' when they complained in the first place?
Check our map to see whether a Hillsborough camera near you has quietly changed addresses, and if you want to push back on relocations-as-concessions in your own county, our take-action page has the tools to make noise before the next repositioning happens in the dark.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Derrick Todd, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.