SOUTH KINGSTOWN TOWN COUNCIL UNANIMOUSLY CANCELS FLOCK SAFTEY CAMERAS 🚨
The short version: South Kingstown's town council voted unanimously to cancel its Flock Safety ALPR contract after residents pushed back, proving local organizing works.
Our Take
Credit where it's due: Councilman Jay G. Wegimont and the South Kingstown Town Council just did something most municipalities refuse to even consider — they listened to residents and pulled the plug on a Flock Safety contract. A unanimous vote to terminate isn't a quiet budget trim, it's a statement. Somebody on that dais actually read the public comments, weighed the privacy tradeoffs, and decided a town of this size didn't need a network of license plate readers logging every car that passes through.
This matters because the Flock sales pitch is almost always the same: a scary anecdote, a free trial, and a contract that quietly renews unless someone in local government does the homework. South Kingstown shows that homework pays off. Once residents actually understood what these cameras track, how long the data sits in a database, and who else can query it, the political calculus changed fast. That's the pattern we want to see repeated in every town currently rubber-stamping these deals without a second thought.
If your town is weighing a Flock contract — or already has cameras up and you didn't get a say — don't wait for a viral video to do the work for you. Check our camera map to see what's already been deployed near you, and use our take-action resources to push your own council toward a vote like South Kingstown's.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of South Kingstown Councilman Jay G. Wegimont, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.