Florida CAUGHT FUNNELING $6 Million for Surveillance Platform after BANNING Flock Cameras?!?!
The short version: A new video claims Florida lawmakers banned Flock Safety ALPRs while quietly steering $6 million toward another surveillance platform, raising questions about whether the ban is more symbolic than substantive.
Our Take
Credit to Krishna Bhunye ab for digging into what looks like a classic surveillance shell game: ban the brand name everyone's mad about, then quietly fund the next generation of license-plate tracking under a different label. If the reporting holds up, Florida wouldn't be the first state to discover that "banning Flock" and "banning mass ALPR surveillance" are two very different things.
This is exactly the pattern we watch for at DeFlock. Legislative wins against a specific vendor can create a false sense of security if the underlying appetite for plate-by-plate tracking data doesn't actually go away — it just finds a new contractor. Lawmakers get to claim a privacy victory while the surveillance infrastructure keeps expanding, sometimes with even less public scrutiny than the first round generated.
We'll be watching to see how this money trail develops and whether Florida residents get real answers about what's replacing the cameras they thought were going away. In the meantime, check our camera map to see what's already deployed near you, and head to take-action if you want to push back on whatever comes next.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Krishna Bhunye ab, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.