St. Lucie commissioners pull Flock cameras from all county roads, property

Our Take

Credit where it's due: CBS 12 News (WPEC) is reporting something we don't get to cover often — a local government actually pulling the plug on Flock Safety cameras instead of expanding them. St. Lucie County commissioners voted to remove the ALPR cameras from county roads and property, and that's a genuine win in a fight where the usual trend line only points toward more cameras, more data retention, and more vague "public safety" justifications with little oversight.

What makes stories like this matter isn't just the hardware coming down — it's the precedent. Every county commission, city council, or sheriff's office watching St. Lucie just got a data point proving that elected officials can say no to blanket license plate surveillance once residents start asking hard questions about cost, efficacy, and who actually gets access to the scan logs. That's the kind of pressure campaign that works, and it rarely happens without local reporting and local pushback.

If you're in a community still debating whether to let Flock in — or trying to get it out — check our camera map to see what's already deployed near you, and head to our take-action page for tools to bring this fight to your own county commission.