Santa Clara County to stop using Flock Safety cameras in several cities

Our Take

Credit to ABC7 News Bay Area for flagging a story that deserves more attention than it usually gets: local governments walking back Flock Safety contracts. When a county pulls the plug on Flock as the primary plate-reader system for three cities at once, that's not a rounding error — it's a signal that officials are hearing pushback from residents who don't want a private company logging every car that passes through their town.

We don't yet know the full reasoning behind Santa Clara County's move, and we won't pretend to. But every time a jurisdiction reconsiders one of these deals, it proves what we've been saying all along: these systems are not inevitable, and the 'everyone's doing it' sales pitch cracks the moment a city council or county board actually asks hard questions about cost, oversight, and who gets access to a year's worth of driving history on every resident.

If you want to see how many Flock cameras are already running in your own community, check our map, and if you'd rather your town be the one making news for cutting ties instead of signing up, head over to our take-action page for tools to bring this fight to your local government.