Fort Mitchell ends use of Flock license plate readers
The short version: Fort Mitchell pulled the plug on Flock ALPRs, proving local pushback works — and every town still running these cameras should be asked why.
Our Take
Fort Mitchell, Kentucky just did something more city councils should be doing: it looked at the cost, the privacy tradeoffs, and the thin evidence of crime-fighting payoff, and it said no thanks to Flock Safety. Credit to FOX 56 News for covering a story that usually only gets attention when something goes wrong — this time it's getting attention because residents and officials pumped the brakes before that happened.
This matters because the Flock sales pitch is always the same: a few cameras, framed as a narrow tool for solving specific crimes, that quietly becomes a dragnet logging every plate that passes through town and feeding it into a network shared with agencies far outside local control. Once that data trail exists, it doesn't stay contained to the "bad guys" — it captures everyone, all the time, with little transparency about who's pulling the logs or why. Fort Mitchell walking it back is a reminder that these contracts aren't permanent, and public pressure can actually unwind them.
If your town has Flock cameras — or you're not sure — check our camera map to see what's already deployed near you, and head to our take-action page for tools to raise this fight at your next council meeting.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of FOX 56 News, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.